Tutorial - Design

 


Creating an Internet Survey
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Here are the most common lines that can be inserted into the script to change the appearance of the HTML pages.

 

Commands to display text
 

Heading=Text

Displays very large text

Title=Text

Displays large text

Text=Text

Displays normal text

Footnote=Text

Sets the footnote text

Instructions=Text

Displays text using instructions color scheme

Question=Text

Displays text using question color scheme

 

Commands for spacing and pagination
 

BlankLine

Inserts blank line

NewPage

Begins a new survey page

 

Commands to insert images and links
 

Image=Filename(s)

Insert one or more images

LinkURL=URL

Sets the URL for the next hyperlink

LinkText=Text

Sets the text for the next link on the survey

Link

Inserts the hyperlink in the survey

 

Commands for help and popup windows
 

HelpLinkText=Text

Sets the text for the help link on the survey

HelpText=Text

Sets the text that will appear in the popup help window

HelpFileName=Filename

Sets the name of an existing popup help window file

HelpWindow

Inserts the help window hyperlink into the survey

PopupStart

Begin a popup window

PopupEnd

End a popup window

 

Commands to create objects
 

Radio Vx

Inserts radio buttons for variable x

Radio Vx-Vy

Inserts horizontal radio buttons for variables x-y (matrix format)

DropDown Vx

Inserts a dropdown box for variable x

TextBox Vx

Inserts a single or multiple line text box for variable x (depending on the field width of the variable)

TextBox Vx-Vy

Inserts text boxes for variables x-y into a single frame

CheckBox Vx-Vy

Inserts check boxes for multiple response variables x-y

ListBox Vx

Inserts a list box for variable x

 

 

You can insert these lines anywhere in the Survey Creation section of the script.

Note: Vx and Vy refer to variable numbers or names. You could, for example, refer to variable one as V1 or Gender and variable two as V2 or Age.

 

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