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When this appearance is selected, the answers for the question are displayed as a rating scale.
Figure 1 - Example of a Single question using the Horizontal Scale option
Figure 2 - Example of a Grid question using the Horizontal Scale option
If you wish to include "header" texts over the first and last answer options, add your desired text separated from the scale values by <space><hyphen><space>. If for example you have the answers set up as shown here below (note the "- Poor" and "- Good" texts for the 1 and 10 grades in the scale), then the layout will automatically be arranged as shown in the Single question example above. Note that header texts can only be added to the first and last scored answer options.
Figure 3 - The question’s Answers list
For Grid questions, when the Rating list - Horizontal scale property is selected, the “Exclude non-scored elements from scale” option becomes available.
In desktop rendering, any answer options with undefined score values are displayed to the right of the answer list, whilst in mobile rendering any answer options with undefined score values are displayed below the answer bar as radio buttons.
Figure 4 - The same Single and Grid questions rendered on mobile
In mobile rendering, the space allocated to the answers is divided evenly between the options, so if there are fewer answer options then the answer buttons will be wider.
Note: If the question is to be presented in mobile rendering, then there can be a maximum of 11 answer options (for example, options 1 to 10, and N/A). In the event the question has more than 11 options, it will be rendered as a standard single question.
Note: Internet Explorer cannot render the iPhone/Android preview correctly. When previewing the questions in these modes you must therefore use either Chrome or Firefox.