Choice question properties – Alida Help Center

Answer order

You can automatically change the answer order in which participants see answers. You can either have the answer displayed in a different, random order each time the question is presented or you can rotate the answers each time the question is presented to a participant.

To randomize or rotate the answers, use the Answer order property. The Answer order property has three options:

As Authored: all participants see the answers in the order that they were created.
Randomize: each participant sees a random order of answers.
Rotate: each time the question is displayed to participants, the answer order is rotated.

Arrange answers and Number of rows/columns

Note: The Arrange answers question property is not supported for mobile surveys. Any changes you make to this question property are not rendered for mobile participants.

Use these two properties to display your answers in rows or columns. By default answers are displayed in a single column.

The Arrange answers property determines whether the answers are displayed in rows or columns.

Option	Description
Horizontal	Display answers in columns.
Vertical	Display answers in rows.

The Number of rows/columns property determines the number of columns or rows you want your answers to be displayed in

The images below show how the Arrange answers and Number of rows/columns properties work together.

Answers, as authored	Question properties	How answers are displayed

Applies to:

Single Choice questions displayed as radio buttons.
Multi Choice questions displayed as check boxes.

Randomize

The image below demonstrates how randomization works with a choice question. The answers are presented in a different order each time the question is presented to a new participant. The order of the answers is randomly determined.

Rotate

The image below demonstrates how rotation works with a choice question. The answers rotate one position each time the question is presented to a new participant.

Show As

Determines how the question will be displayed to participants.

For Single Choice questions, you can choose to have the response list displayed as Radio Buttons or Drop-down (plain text, no images).
Radio Buttons from the participant's perspective:

Drop-down (plain text, no images) from the member's perspective:
For Multi Choice questions, you can choose to have the response list displayed as Check Boxes or List Box (plain text, no images).
Check Boxes from the participant's perspective:

List Box (plain text, no images) from the participant's perspective:

Minimum selection

This property sets the minimum number of selections that a participant must make before clicking Next.

Applies to: Multi Choice questions.

For example, if this property is set to 3, the participant must make at least three selections before they can move to the next question.

Maximum selection

This property sets the maximum number of selections that a participant can make.

Applies to: Multi Choice questions.

For example, if this property is set to 3, participants cannot select more than three options from this list.

Sensitive data

This property will automatically purge data in an other/specify text field 90 days after the participant becomes inactive. After the data is purged, you cannot access it again.

Sensitive Data is available on request. For more information, see Purging sensitive data in power surveys.

Note:

Only Admins can change this property.
When enabled, the Data Purge feature prevents other/specify answer data from being synched with Community Profile metrics. You will still see the answer label in the metrics and your reports, but not the data associated with it.
For more information, see Community profile.

For more information about other question properties, see Question properties.