In some surveys, there is a need to display stimuli or questions for a specific amount of time before advancing respondents to the following page. To ease th...

Overview The Rank Sort question offers an engaging ranking experience for respondents. With the Rank Sort question, respondents are able to rank a list of it...

Overview Occasionally, you may need to change a participant’s status after collecting data in a survey. To perform this type of edit, you will need a full un...

1:  Making a Question Optional You can make various questions in your survey optional. When a question is made optional, respondents are not required to an...

When building a survey, it's not always possible to include a complete list of responses for a question, especially if that question's content is more subje...

Overview In Decipher, you can add a "Prefer not to say" option to any question by converting its existing rows into no-answer rows. Converting rows into no-...

You can alphabetize (ascending or descending) the answer options that a respondent views in a survey. You can alphabetize rows, columns, or choices. First, c...

Overview Speeders are respondents who complete a survey too quickly, indicating that they may not have read the questions or considered the answer options...

  1:  About Survey Branching Survey branching is used to route certain respondents to a question or set of questions based on how they answer a prior ques...

Creating a random content picker can be useful in any survey where your goal is to have respondents evaluate only one or more concepts out of a larger group,...

You can use the Autofill element to create a hidden variable. Overall, the Autofill element is used for creating segments, auto-punching and advanced piping....

The Survey Editor allows you to place a limit on the number of characters a participant can enter in the answer box for an open-ended question (e.g., a Text,...

Appending data allows you to include previously collected data in a new survey. Data imported into the survey can be used to append the report and data set,...

Note: This method only applies when all rows need to be seen at some point during the survey. This document details the process for splitting a question ov...

You can use the Autofill element to create a pipe from a multi-select question and then pipe those answers into a new question. Overall, the Autofill element...

Overview The pipe tool in the Survey Editor allows you to pipe open-ended responses from one question into another. Note: The pipe tool can only be utilize...

Overview You can limit the number of open-end response boxes shown in a question based on the user's answer to a previous question. The process of limiting ...

1.  Overview The following article describes how to implement a prepaid gift code file in your survey to distribute one gift code per qualified participan...

Overview In Decipher, users can assign both data values and statistical values to a question's answer options. This can be particularly useful for rating an...

Overview The MaxDiff - alternatives question is a special question type that requires custom modifications to your survey to get it up and running. To crea...

Overview The MaxDiff - indices question is a special question type that requires custom modifications to your survey to get up and running. To create this ...

1:  About Creating  a DCM Question The DCM is a special question type that requires custom modifications to your survey to get up and running. To create th...

Overview The Net Promoter Score is calculated based on responses to a single question: How likely is it that you would recommend our company/product/servi...

1:  Overview The following article describes how to implement a Typing Tool/Segmentation algorithm into your your survey. This method is commonly used with...

1:  About Validating Zip Codes From a File Zip Codes can be validated and checked against an external zip code database file uploaded to a project using the...

Overview Password entry into your survey can be done using the <text> question element, the File(..) function and a tab-delimited file. For information on u...

This document provides instructions for referencing a common file between projects using the Decipher hooks system.   Requires Decipher Cloud The exampl...

1:  About Creating Keyword Coded Questions You can use keyword coding to group open-end question responses and display the results in a virtual question. G...

1:  About Integrating a Sawtooth Project You can integrate a project created in Sawtooth Software Incorporated (SSI) Web into the Decipher survey platform....

You can add a hidden question to your survey to capture where the respondents were just prior to entering the survey. For example, if you posted the survey l...