This worksheet describes how to use your own images to make a question interactive and more engaging.
We will use the gender question as the example for this worksheet. Sample images are available to download below.
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Background
Snap allows you to present coded questions as clickable images. These are known as Map Controls. To create your own Map Control you must edit your image in the Map Control Editor.
You can convert single and multi-response questions to Map Controls in Snap. You must define an area of the image that represents each code, and then set how it will appear when the respondent clicks on it. The image used to form the structure of the map control can be a picture of anything – it is not limited to a cartographical map. Possibilities include:
- map of a country, region or district split up into areas
- schematic picture of a human body which may be used to indicate areas affected by injury or disease
- photograph of a street scene with potentially hazardous situations marked
Map Controls can be associated with single-response and multiple-response questions in electronic editions (Snap WebHost, web, kiosk, etc.) of the questionnaire.
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Step 1: Add the gender question to your survey
This section describes adding the single-response Gender question to your questionnaire.
- Open your survey in Snap.
- Add a new question. If it is not already a Single choice type question change it to one (with a Single response).
- Enter your questionnaire text (Are you male or female?) and two codes.
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Step 3: Making the map control a “Must answer” question
You can apply must answer and minimum and maximum response requirements to Map Controls and Slider Control questions.
- Select the image map question in your questionnaire.
- Click or press [Alt]+[Enter] to display the Variable Properties for the question.
- Scroll down to find Must Answer and set it to Yes.
- Click [OK] to force respondents to answer the gender question.
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Step 4: Save your Map Control to use again
You can save your Map Control so that you can use it in other surveys and other editions.
- Double-click the Map Control to open the Map Control Editor.
- Select File | Save map control and browse for a folder.
- Give your Map Control file a name and click [Save].
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Step 5: Change the Map Control for different screen sizes
Map Controls can take a lot of screen space and take time to load. You can change their size to make them suitable for smaller screens. You can remove them if you are concerned about load time.
- Create the Map Control question in your new edition or survey. (Use a Snap WebHost edition for an adaptive survey, or mobile for one which is only going to be used on mobile devices).
- Convert the question to a Map Control (Choose the Show topic and select As Map Control, then click the Show checkbox). If you have added an additional edition to your survey, you will see the gender Map Control. If it is a new survey, you must load your saved Map Control.
- Double-click the gray area to open the Map Control Editor.
- Select File|Load map control and select the control you saved earlier.
- The gender map will load. Select the size control and change the size to 50%. The map will resize.
- Click [OK] to leave the Map Control Editor.
Removing a map control
You can remove a map control from a question.
- Select your Map Control question.
- Select the Show toolbar topic.
- Select As Map Control by clearing the Show box.
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Conclusion
This worksheet has described how to create a map control for a gender question.
The worksheet: Using a clickable map to create a star rating scale explains how to change the way areas appear when the user clicks on them.
There is a reference guide to the Map Control Editor: Map control editor window.
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