Text

Write the text/question you want the user to read in the published form in the textbox under Text. The new question label will appear in the canvas when you press enter or move to the next setting.

Position

Select where you want to place your label in regard to the options. Your choices are Left, Right, Top and No label.

Override Width

Choose how wide the label field should be. If you check off this check box a new field will appear and you can enter the desired number of characters (in measurement of em – 2em = 2 times the size of the current font).

Type

Choose whether the multiselect element consists of a dropdown menu or radio buttons.

Validation

Choose from default and custom-built validations for the input. Every question except file upload and date, has String as default validation. For more info about validations, see the Validation Builder documentation.

Enter

Click Options and customize the dropdown options in the Options menu (more info in the Options Menu documentation). It is not possibly to add help texts to dropdown options (in comparison to other questions).

Select

Toggle the radio button, browse and choose an option source to populate the options automatically. Learn more about option sources and how to connect them to forms in the Option Source documentation.

Override Width

Choose how wide the dropdown menu should be. If you check off this check box a new field will appear and you can enter the desired number of characters (in measurement of em – 2em = 2 times the size of the current font).

Read-only

Toggle this check box in order to make the element read-only.

Alias

Question alias is a unique additional identifier that may be set on a question. It is non-mandatory and there are rules as to which names it can take. It can't e.g. start with a capital letter, contain white-space characters or letters outside the Latin alphabet, and must have a length of 1 to 40 characters. The question alias can be used to automatically map form questions with a PDF template in the Workflow Builder.

Events

Choose if you want to trigger actions with events for this question. There are three types of actions; Execute script, Call CNG service and Call Generic Service, and there can be multiple actions triggered per question. See the Events Menu documentation for more information.

Help Text

Toggle Display Help and write a Help Text for guiding the end-user in writing the right answer for this question. The help text is available to the user next to the element by clicking the  icon.

Help icon placement

The Help icon placement controls where the help icon is placed. Your choices are: Next to label and Next to input.

Tooltip

Toggle Display Tooltip and write a Tooltip for guiding the end-user in writing the right answer for this question. The tooltip is available to the user by hovering over the element.

Style – Tag Names

Insert tags which will be translated into CSS class names for the implementation elements in the respondent-GUI. The feature comes in handy when you are customizing a skin.

Hint Text

Toggle Display Hint and write a Hint Text  for guiding the end-user in writing the right answer for this question. Choose the width and position of the hint text in the Width and Position fields. This only limits the visual width of the hint text. The hint text can be visible to the user to the right or at the bottom.

Display Condition

You can choose to hide and show elements depending on different conditions.

Enable Condition

You can enable and disable elements depending on different conditions.

Use label from data model

The label saved in the data model will be shown in the respondent view.

Override label from data model

The label added to the currently opened view will be shown in the respondent view. The same question element (same Question ID) may therefore have different labels in different views. You might for instance want to shorten label text for question elements when used in a mobile view.

Validation Script runs when completing

In the Data Model section is a validation script window, where you can customize a validation script. This is handy if your validation depends on other question elements (as you cannot reference question IDs in the Validation Builder). You can choose to have the validation script run when the end-user either completes the form, the page or the element.

The Question is

The end-user does not have to answer the question if the question is optional or recommended (but a recommended question will launch a warning to the end-user recommending them to answer the question). It is mandatory for the end-user to answer the question, either by the completion of the form if it’s set to mandatory, or before entering the next page if it’s set to page mandatory.

Max – Maximum amount of characters in responder input.

Option Source is also used by

Choose from your input variables in the Overridden by Input Variable dropdown menu to override the options. As of Compose 8.4.4, this function, although visible, is outdated.