How to PIPE or CARRY FORWARD options?
PIPE or CARRY FORWARD options allow users to copy specific answer choices from one question and bring them into a future question in the survey. This essentially is a simplified version of adding OPTION CONDITIONS, where instead of adding OPTIONS CONDITIONS one by one, we can simply PIPE or CARRY FORWARD options at once.
1. Toggle ON Used piped options under Response Options Box > General Settings.
2. Choose the question you want to PIPE from.
3. Choose if you want to PIPE the "SELECTED" options or "UNSELECTED" options.
Example for PIPE SELECTED options: We first ask which the participants have bought in the last 12 months. We then PIPE or CARRY FORWARD the options they SELECTED into the next question and ask the participants to rank their preference from those previously selected options only.
Example for PIPE UNSELECTED options: We first ask which brands the participants have bought in the last 12 months. We then PIPE or CARRY FORWARD the options they DID NOT SELECT into the next question and ask the participants to choose which one they will consider buying from unselected options only.
4. Choose whether to Enable Skip. When Enable Skip is toggled on, and there's only ONE option gets piped in, the system will automatically select that option and skip the question.
Example where we want to Enable Skip: We first ask which brands the participants have bought in the last 12 months. We then PIPE or CARRY FORWARD the options they SELECTED into the next question and ask the participants which one they bought most often. In this case, we won't want the participants to choose again if there's only one brand selected in the previous question but we still want to auto-select that one option as it's the most often purchased brand. Therefore we can choose to Enable Skip in this case.
An example where we DON'T want to Enable Skip: We first ask which brands the participants are aware of. We then PIPE or CARRY FORWARD the options they SELECT into the next question and ask the participants to choose which one they would recommend to others from the selected options only. In this case, we will still want to ask if the participants would recommend the brand even though there's only one brand selected in the previous question. Therefore we should NOT Enable Skip in this case.
5. For PIPED OPTIONS, we can not add any more custom options except for the following two types of options.
- A mutually exclusive option, you can click (+) Not Applicable and edit the wording for Not Applicable (for example: None of the above)
- Other responses click (+) Other, Specify and participants can type in and specify their answer (not in the listed option)
If you want to add more custom options, then you should switch to OPTION CONDITIONS. Please see more details here.
QUESTION TYPES THAT CAN PIPED OPTIONS FROM
- Choice
- Rank Order
- Popup Card
- Virtual Question
- Tradeoff Question
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