Using Styles

Snap XMP comes with a number of question styles. They are all available for use in Snap XMP Desktop. We have developed a sample questionnaire that shows the different question styles. You can use this questionnaire to see how the questions behave in a live interview.

Choosing a question style in Design mode

When you are designing the questionnaire in the Questionnaire window, the question style drop-down list shows the most used styles, and a “More Styles” entry at the end of the list. Click this to open the Style Picker, which contains a list of all the available styles.

You can also access the list by clicking Style Picker on the Questionnaire toolbar. The Style Picker tool is an easy way of applying a question style to questions in your questionnaire. This tool is only available in Design mode .

Temporary Question Styles

Changes made to a question in Design Mode will create a new temporary style called “like” followed by the original style name. For example, when you change the style of an Open Ended question, the question changes to “like Open Ended“.

You can select the type of styles you would like to view in the preview window, by selecting from ‘All Styles’, ‘All Variables’, ‘Named Styles’, ‘Unused Styles’ or ‘Used Styles’ in the Style drop-down list.

Using Style mode to modify question styles

Style mode allows you to make modifications to the styles, whereas Design mode allows you to modify the individual questions. Style mode allows you to make consistent changes to all questions of the same style, without having to make individual question changes.

The style selection box

Style Selection Box	Description
Multi Choice	Changes will apply to the selected question and all other questions that use the same style as the selected question. In addition, any styles that are derived from the style of the selected question where settings still remain the same will adopt the changes.
All ‘Multi Choice’ styles’	Settings will apply to the selected question and all other questions that use the same style as the selected question. In addition, the settings will apply to any questions that use styles derived from the current style. For example, “like multi choice” questions will also change.
All styles	Settings will apply to all styles. The settings will be stored as the default style settings.

The following rules explains how styles affect other questions according to the value selected in the style selection box:

• questions that use the same Style as the highlighted question also change
• questions that are not based on the Style of the highlighted question do not change
• questions whose Style is based on the selected question’s style only change if the attribute that changed had the same value in both styles

Based on Styles

Not all styles behave in the same way when changes are made; some Styles are based on others. In addition to the ten pre-set styles, there is a Default style that is considered the parent style for five of the pre-set styles: Multi Choice, Grid First, Open Ended, Open First, Title and Instruction. In the same way, Title is the parent style for Sub Title.

The ten pre-set styles are Grid First, Grid Next, Instruction, Multi Choice, Open Ended, Open First, Open Next, Other, Sub Title, and Title.

All Styles derive from the default, either directly or through other styles as the diagram shows.

Style attributes

Each Style has Style Attributes which affects a number of different question elements. You can either set the value of each attribute, or it can inherit its value from other styles. The table below shows the full list of Style Attributes.

Attribute	Affects
Alignment	Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Position, Code Label, Code Value, Data, Code Box, Code Go To, Footnote.
Background	Question Area, Answer Area, Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Position, Code Label, Code Value, Code Box, Box Area, Code Offset, Code Gutter, Code Verge, Code Go To, Footnote.
Borders	Question.
Boxes	Box Style, Check Mark, Force Square, Drop-down, Image.
Break	Column Break, Page Break, Section Break.
Columns	Number, Arrangement, Full width.
Find	Find, Next, Previous, Find and Replace.
Font	Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Position, Code Label, Code Value, Data, Check Mark, Code Go To, Footnote.
Margins	Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Position, Code Label, Code Value, Data, Check mark, Code Go To, Footnote.
Numbering	Number Format.
Positions	Question, Code Box.
Response	Response Type.
Show	Name, Text, Grid Name, Grid Label, Position, Code Label, Code Box, Code Leaders, Code Value, Space Before, Code Go To, Footnote, Line Before, Semantic Scale, Grid Leaders, As Drop-down, as Map Control, as Slider Control.
Tabs	Name, Text, Grid Label, Code Offset, Code Gutter, Code Verge, Code Values, Code Go To, Open Label.

The Question Elements

The Style of a question defines its appearance in the questionnaire for each of its different Elements (see table below). You can change the location or format of each element in the questionnaire.

Element	Description
Answer Area	The background area around the answer box and label.
Box Area	The area around the answer code box.
Code Box	The checkbox for a multi- or single-response closed question or the text box for an open-ended question.
Code GoTo	Space for questionnaire routing instructions based on a response to the question.
Code Gutter	The spacing between columns, used with the Tabs and Background topics.
Code Label	The text describing a response for a question.
Code Leader	Markings between the Code Label and the Code Box to show their association, used in paper editions only.
Code Offset	The space to the left of the answer code, used with the Tabs and Background topics.
Code Value	The numerical value assigned to a response.
Code Verge	The space to the right of the answer code box, used with the Tabs and Background topics.
Footnote	A box located below or beside each question, used to display additional text.
Grid Label	The text describing a grid row.
Grid Leader	Markings between the Grid Label and the Grid Box to show their association, used in paper editions only.
Grid Name	The number of the grid row.
Line Before	A line inserted before a question, used with the Show topic.
Name	The question number in the questionnaire.
Open Label	The space used for the code label on open questions, used with the Tabs and Background topic.
Question Area	The background area around the question text, used with the Background topic.
Space Before	Space added before a question, used use with the Show topic.
Text	The question text.

Organising the question styles

The Style Organiser tool allows you to view the styles you have used within the questionnaire. Style Organiser is only available in Style mode and can be used to sort styles, as well as rename and make copies of styles.

In Style mode , clicking the Style Properties button . This opens the Style Properties dialog for the selected question style, where you can change the style name, based on style and the question that can follow this style.

You can save the question styles as a Style Template so that you can use them in other questionnaires. This helps to create questionnaires with consistent branding.