Previewing your questionnaire

Once you have completed your questionnaire, you can test it to make sure there are no errors in the design process. You can preview the questionnaire to check that the questions, routing, validation and look of the questionnaire behave in the way you want.

First, publish the questionnaire in Snap XMP Online.

Publishing your survey for the first time

Your questionnaire is now ready for publishing. The publishing process creates web pages that run a survey in a web browser. When the Collect tab is selected the Overview is shown by default. This shows the status of the survey and is where you publish the survey.

1. Click the Collect tab and go to the Overview section.
2. Click the Publish current version button to publish your survey.

3. A message asks you to confirm that you want to publish. Click OK to publish the survey.

When you have published your survey the Overview now displays further information with sections for

• Overview displays the current survey status.
• Paper Interviews contains a PDF download.
• Web Interviews shows the details for online interviewing.

Publishing an updated version of your survey

Sometimes you will need to change a questionnaire after publication. You need to publish the questionnaire again to ensure that the respondents complete the latest version.

1. From the Collect section navigate to the Settings side menu.
2. The Overview heading displays a warning message if there are changes to the questionnaire after it was the last publication. This means that the latest questionnaire is not the same as the published questionnaire that the respondents are currently completing.

3. You need to pause interviewing before publishing the survey again with the latest questionnaire. Click Pause interviewing.
4. The Publish current version button is available after pausing interviewing. Click on the Publish current version button to publish the latest version of the questionnaire.
5. After publishing your survey’s latest version, the message indicates that the most recent version of the survey is being used for interviewing. Click Resume interviewing to restart the interview process.

Previewing the published survey

Previewing the published questionnaire allows you to check how the questionnaire appears in the web browser, enter a number of test responses and try out the routing and validation. These test responses will not be saved or affect the survey data responses.

You can test the published survey

• prior to starting interviewing
• after interviewing has started when the survey is live

1. From the Collect section navigate to the Settings side menu.
2. Scroll down to the Web Interviews heading, if necessary.
3. Click the Launch preview button. This opens the questionnaire in a new web browser tab.
4. This starts with a notice that this is a survey preview and responses entered in the preview will not be saved and will not affect the survey results.
5. Click the message” I understand – start the preview” to proceed.
6. The preview starts the currently published questionnaire, and you can enter some test responses to check your questionnaire.
7. If you need to make any changes, you can update the questionnaire and publish it again.