Survey structure

A survey follows a defined hierarchy: an optional title, an optional welcome message, one or more groups, and an optional thank you message.

How a survey is organised

A survey has:

• An optional title shown to participants at the start
• An optional welcome message shown before the first question
• One or more groups, each holding questions and, optionally, content
• An optional thank you message shown after the survey is submitted

Every question belongs to exactly one group. Within a group, questions and content items share a single ordered list.

Content presents information or media without collecting a response: formatted text or an embedded YouTube video. See Content Elements. The welcome and thank you messages can also hold content items.

Terminology

A group is stored internally as a section. Exported and imported survey files, and import error messages, use “section” instead of “group” for the same thing. See Import / Export.

A question or content item, considered together, is called an element in those same files and error messages. The editor and this site refer to them individually as “question” and “content”.

For adding, reordering, and deleting groups, questions, and content, see Edit Survey Structure.

The structure panel

The left side of the editor shows the hierarchy as a tree, with each group’s questions and content nested beneath it. Groups can be expanded or collapsed. Clicking an item focuses it and scrolls to it.

Attributes

Click an item to focus it. Edit it inline by clicking its title or description, or through the attributes panel on the right.

Group attributes

Attribute	Description
Name	Internal label used in the structure panel and in exports.
Description	Optional text shown above the group’s questions.
Condition	Visibility rule. See Conditional Questions.

Question attributes

Attribute	Description
Question text	The prompt shown to participants. Supports formatting.
Question type	The response format. Click to change it.
Required	Participants cannot proceed without answering.
Code	Short identifier used in exports and conditional logic. OTHER, OTHER_TEXT, and ORDER are reserved.
Condition	Visibility rule. See Conditional Questions.

Question sub-parts

Checkbox and Dropdown questions have answer options; matrix questions have rows. Sub-parts appear nested beneath their question, with their own attributes in the right panel.

Thank you message

Shown after a participant submits the survey. Supports formatting.

Attribute	Description
End URL	Optional link followed after completion. Used automatically when Redirect End is enabled.
Link text	Label for the End URL link; falls back to the URL when blank.

A language without its own End URL falls back to another language’s value. See Settings → Presentation for the Redirect End and End URL Link toggles.