Quickstart 2 – Designing a Questionnaire

This guide walks you through designing your first questionnaire in Dub Quest. It is the second part of a three-part series:

Quickstart 1 – Creating a Project
Quickstart 2 – Designing a Questionnaire (this page)
Quickstart 3 – Running a Questionnaire

Before you start

Make sure you have completed Quickstart 1 and have a project open in Dub Quest. Before designing, it is good practice to create the dataset for your project first.

Step 1 – Open the Questionnaire Design Screen

You can open the design screen in three ways:

Click the Design questionnaire icon in the Survey Navigator toolbar
Select Design Questionnaire from the Design menu
Press F8

The Questionnaire Design Screen opens.

[SCREENSHOT: Questionnaire Design Screen]

Important: Only one person can design the same questionnaire at a time. Opening the same project in multiple sessions simultaneously can cause errors and data loss.

The three panes

The design screen consists of three panes:

Left – Questionnaire Structure An overview of all forms in your questionnaire, displayed as a tree structure. Click any form name to select and edit it.

Middle – Form Settings and options for the selected form. The available tabs depend on the form type. You can rename a form here using the Rename button.

Right – Content The area where you write the question text. For question types with answer options, the lower half of this pane shows the answer list. HTML and JavaScript can also be inserted here if needed.

Step 2 – Add an introduction to the Start form

Every questionnaire starts with a Start form, which is added automatically by Dub Quest. Select it in the Questionnaire Structure pane and type an introduction text in the Content pane.

[SCREENSHOT: Start form with introduction text]

Step 3 – Create your first question

In the Default routing field at the bottom of the middle pane, type the name of your first question. Then press Ctrl+Enter. A confirmation dialog appears asking whether you want to create a new form with that name. Click Yes.

[SCREENSHOT: Confirmation dialog]

Next, choose the form type. Select Question form, then choose a question type such as Multiple Response. Click OK. The new form appears in the Questionnaire Structure.

Naming tip: Once you name a form, avoid renaming it afterwards. Other forms, expressions and conditions may reference that name, and changing it can break those references — similar to changing the URL of a webpage.

Step 4 – Add question text and answer options

Select your new form in the Questionnaire Structure. In the Content pane:

Type your question text in the upper area
In the Answers section at the bottom, click New to add answer options

The Add new item window appears. Enter the answer text in the Description field and click OK. Repeat for each answer option.

[SCREENSHOT: Add new item window] [SCREENSHOT: Answer items in the Content pane]

Use the Edit button to modify an existing answer, or Delete to remove one.

Step 5 – Add more questions

Use the Default routing drop-down in the middle pane to route to the next question and create additional forms. Repeat Step 3 and Step 4 for each question.

Step 6 – Add an End form

Every questionnaire must end with at least one End of questionnaire form. Create a new form and set its type to End of questionnaire in the Type drop-down in the middle pane.

[SCREENSHOT: Design Screen with End form visible]

Step 7 – Check the integrity

Close the design screen with Alt+F4 or the close button. The system will ask if you want to check the integrity of the questionnaire. Click Yes.

[SCREENSHOT: Integrity check prompt]

Dub Quest checks the questionnaire and reports any errors. If everything is correct, a confirmation message appears. If there are errors, they are listed at the bottom of the screen with explanations. Correct each error and run the integrity check again.

[SCREENSHOT: Integrity OK message]

You can also run the integrity check at any time during design by clicking Check Integrity in the Home tab of the design window.

What’s next?

Continue with Quickstart 3 – Running a Questionnaire to add your questionnaire to Dub InterViewer and run it.