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Text Question Attributes

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1:  Overview

The <text> element is an open-ended question type that gathers text input from respondents such as descriptions, name, email, zip code, etc...

<text label="Q1" optional="0">
  <title>What is your name?</title>
  <row label="r1">First</row>
  <row label="r2">Last</row>
</text>

<text label="Q2" optional="0" verify="zipcode">
  <title>What is your 5-digit ZIP postal code?</title>
</text>

The code above produces the following result:

2:  Attributes

In addition to the Question Attributes available, the <text> element has access to the following attributes:

2.1:  size - Set the Input Field's Width

The size attribute is an integer value that controls how wide the input field should be.

By default, the size is set to 20. The input fields can be shortened or lengthened for the entire question or on each individual element. For example:

<text label="Q1" size="25">
  <title>Please fill in the information below:</title>
  <row label="r1" size="5" verify="zipcode">ZIP Code</row>
  <row label="r2">Name</row>
  <row label="r3" verify="email">Email</row>
  <row label="r4" size="50">Occupation</row>
</text>

The code above produces the following result:

The default size for the question is set to 25 and rows r1 and r4 are set differently.

2.2:  optional - Set the Question Mandatory or Optional

The optional attribute is a boolean value that controls whether or not the respondent should be forced to answer the question.

By default, text questions are not mandatory. Specify optional="0" to force a response.

<text label="Q1" optional="0" title="What is your email?" verify="email"/>

2.3:  verify - Set Which Data Verifiers to Use

The verify attribute controls which of the Data Verifiers to use. verify can apply the validation functions on the entire question or on each individual element, but not both.

For example:

<text label="Q1" optional="0">
  <title>Please provide the following information:</title>
  <row label="r1" verify="zipcode">ZIP Code</row>
  <row label="r2" verify="range(1,125)">Age</row>
  <row label="r3" verify="len(2,3)">Weight</row>
  <noanswer label="r99">Prefer not to say</noanswer>
</text>

The code above produces the following result (errors shown to demonstrate the verify attribute):

3:  Example

In this example, we'll ask respondents to rate three sets of items based on two criteria using the words "one", "two" and "three". Using a <validate> element, we'll make sure the answers provided make sense.

<text label="Q1" optional="0" grouping="cols">
  <title>Please rate each item using the words "one", "two" or "three" based on the criteria provided:</title>
  <row label="r1">Item 1</row>
  <row label="r2">Item 2</row>
  <row label="r3">Item 3</row>
  <col label="c1">Best value</col>
  <col label="c2">Best customer service</col>
  <validate>
# each column should have the following answers
expected_answers = set(["one", "two", "three"])

for eachCol in this.cols:
    # here are the answers that were supplied
    actual_answers = set([answer.lower() for answer in eachCol.values])

    # if the difference between the set of expected and actual answers
    # is not an empty set, then show an error
    if (expected_answers.difference(actual_answers) != set()):
        error("Please rate each item using the words 'one', 'two' and 'three' where 'one' is the best.", col=eachCol)
  </validate>
</text>

The code above produces the following result:

4:  What's Next?

Using the survey builder? Learn more about the Text Question.

Dive into the Text Question XML to learn more.