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How do I set up Question and Answer Piping in BlockSurvey

How do I set up Question and Answer Piping in BlockSurvey

Updated over 2 months ago

What is Piping In Surveys?

Survey Piping is a technique that allows survey creators to reuse a respondent's previous answer in subsequent questions or answer choices.

Why Piping in Surveys?

Question & Answer Piping leads to more personalization of your surveys.

Favorite Movie Use case

“Favorite Movie Survey” is used to explain Question & Answer Piping. This Survey has 4 questions, as shown below screenshot.

  • The first 2 questions are used to explain Question piping.

  • The 3rd & 4th questions are used to explain Answer piping.

Steps to Set up Question Piping

Question Piping uses the participant’s response from one question and incorporates it into a subsequent question.

  1. In 2nd question, type “@” or click the Recall button in the question input field.

  2. Select the 1st question to whose response you want to refer.

  3. Now, the response is piped to the 2nd Question.

Steps to Set up Answer Piping

Answer Piping uses the participant’s response from one choice-based question and uses it as an answer choice in another choice-based question.

  1. In 4th question, Click on Pipe Answer

  2. Select the 3rd Question from the drop-down & choose one of the below options.

    • All Choices

    • Selected Choices

    • Unselected Choices

  3. The Selected choices for 3rd Question are piped as answer options for 4th Question. Answer Piping is done.

That's it! You've successfully learned to set up ‘Question & answer piping’ using BlockSurvey.

Answers can even be piped to the survey’s Welcome or Thank-you screens.

Ready to make your surveys more personal and impactful? Start using Piping in Surveys.

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