Dear all

I have tried to look through the manual as well as the forum by I couldn't find any help on creating a array the way I wanted. I am working on a survey where I am told to use a likert scale. This means the that labels change for each question as in this image:


I couldn't find any information how to do this with the existing question types, but maybe I am wrong. Does anybody know how to create the question in the image?

Kind regards
Thomas Jansson

Hey Thomas,

this is a tricky one, but it IS possible! Choose the question type Array (Flexible labels). Define your label set with you scale (e.g. 0 to 7 as pictured). Then you have to enter your answers as follows:

ITEM statement 1|statement 2

You can eventually look up a HTML tag to set a more decent space between the item and the statements.

Greetings,

Jan

Hi pinguinjosef

Thanks for the answer. I have tried to do as you suggest but it is really hard to make it look nice since there is no html code for tabulators (expect in pre), so left side labels are not not indented at the same level. Do you have any other idea on how to solve the problem?


Kind regards
Thomas

Hey Thomas,

I have thought this problem would appear ...

For such a special question you should use a CSS based template where you define the answer text as



Another possibility is to try and enter the answers as follows:



If this doesn't work try using DIV instead of SPAN. And if both won't work you'll have to do a CSS layout. I can support you with one I did for a customer, if needed.

Greetings,

Jan

You are probably right about the css - I tried to use a table approach but beside being very ugly it didn't work as expected.



I would indeed be interested in a css based layout - I guess this is the only way to do it beside hacking the code base to accept three pipe signs, but that is well beyond my time-limit.

Not totally clean, but you could define different questions for each Item.

But wouldn't that create a lot of spacing between each question in a way so it didn't seem as an array anymore?

Well, is it that important to be an array? Then my solution probably wouldn't work.

OK, I will support you with my css tomorrow. Just PM me your email adress.

Greetings,

Jan

Just to close this topic: Entering DIV tags with a nowrap-style is possible. General spoken a CSS based layout is the choice to be sure a questionnaire is displayed properly.