How-To Guides
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How to Auto-Submit a Survey Page after a Specified Time
In some surveys, there is a need to display stimuli or questions for a specific amount of time before advancing participants to the following page. To ease t...
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How to Dynamically Control a Rank Sort Question
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...
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How to Change a Participant's Status
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 understandi...
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Making a Question Optional
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...
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Creating an "Other (Specify)" Answer Option
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...
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Adding a "Prefer Not to Say" Option
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-...
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Alphabetizing a Question's Answer Options
You can alphabetize (ascending or descending) the answer options that a respondent views in a survey. You can alphabetize rows, columns, or choices. 1: Addi...
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Tracking and Terminating Survey Speeders
Overview Speeders are respondents who complete a survey too quickly, indicating that they may not have read the questions or considered the answer options...
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Survey Branching with Question Logic
Survey branching is used to route certain respondents to a question or set of questions based on how they answer a prior question in the survey. This articl...
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Creating a Random Concept Picker
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,...
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Making a Hidden Variable Automatically Populate
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....
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Limiting the Number of Characters Permitted in Open-Ended Questions
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,...
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Appending a Recipient List using Import Data
You can use the Import Data element to include participant data you have collected in one survey in another survey. Data imported into a survey can be used t...
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Splitting a Question Over Multiple Screens
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...
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Piping Answers from a Multi-Select Question
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...
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Piping Open-Ended Responses
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 utilized for Sin...
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Piping Open-End Response Boxes
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 open-end ...
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Adding Gift Code Incentives to Your Survey
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...
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Assigning Numerical Values to Answer Options
In Decipher, users can assign both data values and statistical values to a question's answer options. This can be particularly useful for rating and similar...
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Creating a MaxDiff Question - Alternatives Method
The MaxDiff - Alternatives question is a special question type that requires custom modifications to your survey to get it up and running. To create this q...
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Creating a MaxDiff Question - Indices Method
The MaxDiff - Indices question is a special question type that requires custom modifications to your survey to get up and running. To create this question ...
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Creating a Discrete Choice Model (DCM) Question
The Discrete Choice Model (DCM) question is a special question type that requires custom modifications to your survey to get up and running. To create this...
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Net Promoter Score (NPS)
The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is calculated based on participant responses to a question that would indicate their willingness to recommend a company's produ...
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Adding a Typing Tool or Segmentation Algorithm
The following article describes how to implement a typing tool or segmentation algorithm in a Decipher survey. This method is commonly used with Fisher's li...
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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 File Manager. By validating the zip codes ...
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Setting a Survey Password
Password entry into your survey can be done using the <text> question element, the File(..) function, and a tab-delimited file. For information on using the...
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Referencing a Common File in Multiple Projects
This document provides instructions for referencing a common file between projects using the Decipher hooks system. Requires Decipher Cloud Note: The e...
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Keyword Coding Questions
You can use keyword coding questions to group open-ended question responses and display the results in a virtual question. Grouping questions by keywords al...
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Integrating a Sawtooth Project into the Decipher Survey Platform
1: About Integrating a Sawtooth Project You can integrate a project created in Sawtooth Software Incorporated (SSI) Web into the Decipher survey platform....
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Capturing the Referer URL
You can add a hidden question to your survey to capture where the participants were just prior to entering the survey. For example, if you posted the survey ...