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Forsta Survey Designer Support

All the topics, resources needed for Forsta Survey Designer.

  • Scratchpad

    The scratchpad is a simple text editor that you activate by clicking the Show Scratchpad button in the Design page toolbar.Figure 1- Activating the scratchpa...

  • Survey Layouts

    Survey Layouts are used to customize the look and feel of your surveys, enabling you to design your survey pages and questions in detail.Three basic types of...

  • Appearance Options

    All questions except Open text list, Information and Date have an Appearance property. This allows you to select how the question is to be presented to the r...

  • Codes

    When designing a survey, the options available for you to use as the answers to your questions are limited only by your imagination. To simplify the data pro...

  • About Quotas

    The Quota is a special type of condition (go to Conditions for more information) that limits the number of responses received for different sub samples or ta...

  • About Optimistic Quotas

    You can set quotas to specify the number of responses you would like to receive for different sub-samples or target groups, or to limit the total number of r...

  • Hint Texts

    You can place “hint” texts at the first and last locations in answer lists, and at the ends of the prompt and scale rows for Grid questions. You can use thes...

  • Design

    The Design page is where you create and edit your surveys. When you click on a blue survey name link in the Surveys list, you are taken first to the Overview...

  • Tips

    The first time you log in and create a new survey, a “Tips” overlay - is displayed. This overlay provides you with some basic information about the Survey ...

  • Importing from Word

    When creating a new survey from scratch, or adding additional questions to an existing survey, you can import survey questions from a Microsoft Word® documen...

  • Survey Pane

    You build your survey in the Survey pane on the left side of the Designer page, placing the questions and other nodes into the pane in the order in which th...

  • File Manager

    The File Manager is an area on the server where Forsta Plus users can be allocated their own domains in which they can store smaller files, for example image...

  • System Limits

    Respondent dataThe question types and their limits are as listed below:Open text - UnlimitedOpen text with field width specified in properties - Limited to t...