Gathering data from users: Survey widget

The Survey widget allows an analyst to interact with a survey on an iPad and submit answers, which are then stored in your data source. You can create a survey in a database or on a third-party survey creation website, then display your survey in a Transaction Services-enabled document on an iPad.

The Survey widget provides an easy way to dynamically generate and maintain surveys. If you want to modify the survey after its creation (for example, by adding or editing survey questions), you can update the survey information provided by the attributes and metrics placed on the widget's grid. These changes will automatically be reflected and displayed in the widget, without requiring any additional configuration changes to the widget in the document.

You can add a Survey widget to a document, then display the widget when the document is viewed on a mobile device, as shown in the image above.

A Survey widget displayed on an iPad can contain the following question types:

Question Type	Description
Text field	A field consisting of one line in which users can enter text. Text fields are suited for questions in which users provide a single line of text, such as an email address.
Text area	A field in which users can type multiple lines of text. Text areas are suited for comments sections in which users provide multiple lines of written content.
Radio button	A list of radio buttons, displayed in a table. Users can select one radio button at a time.
Check box	A list of check boxes, displayed in a table. Users can select more than one check box at the same time.
Drop-down list	A list of options, displayed in a table. Users can select one option from the drop-down list at a time.
Likert scale	A series of radio buttons, displayed in a table, that users can choose from to rate an item on a numeric scale. For example, users can choose 1 to strongly disagree with a statement, or 5 to strongly agree.
Drag and drop ranking	A list containing options that users can click and drag to rank them from highest to lowest.
Star ranking	A row of stars that users can use to submit a specific star rating out of five stars (such as four out of five stars).
Group question	When you display questions in a question group or table, you specify which question is treated as the main question. The main question is displayed as a header above the rest of the questions.

In the example above, the second question is displayed as a table of choices. The iPad displays the text "Required" for required questions (as shown for First Name in the example).