The new list
settings page that is shown if you have created the survey from a
machine that doesn’t have Microsoft Silverlight installed or if you
clicked the More Options button has a very different settings dialog
for the new survey you are creating.
Although most of the
settings are exactly like the ones for a regular list, the survey list
has two more settings that you need to set before creating the list.
These options appear in the Survey Options section of the page.
The first option to
configure—Show User Names in Survey Results?—enables you to decide
whether the survey will be anonymous. If you choose No, the person
viewing the results of the survey can’t tell who answered what in the
survey in any way. This setting is useful if you want to get honest
feedback from people who might be concerned about revealing their true
opinions (for example, using an employee satisfaction survey).
Choosing Yes tells SharePoint
to show the name of the person who answered next to his or her answer
in the reports. This setting is useful when you want to track who
answered what (for example, in a survey that collects data from
employees about what hotel they like to stay in when they are
traveling).
The next option is
whether to allow multiple responses. By default, a survey allows each
person to answer the survey only once—like a voting system. However,
you might want to create surveys that allow people to respond multiple
times (for example, a survey that asks employees for suggestions for
improving the company, where every employee might want to answer
several times, every time they think of a new suggestion).
After you finish with the
settings for the survey, click the Create button. Unlike with other
list types, when you create a survey, you are immediately redirected to
create questions for the survey.
The questions are almost
identical to list columns, and creating them is almost the same as the
process described in the following section. However, surveys also have
additional options for column types that are not available in regular
lists: the Rating Scale question type and a Page Separator.
When you are finished
configuring the first question of the survey, you can either click the
Next Question button to create another question or click the Finish
button to finalize the survey. You can add, modify, or remove questions
in the future (see “Change or Remove a Column in a List or a Document
Library,” later in this chapter).
When you create questions for surveys, the questions support another unique option called branching.
This enables you to display different questions to users based on the
answers they answered previously.
