How to use the radio buttons block
Learn everything you need to know to use the radio buttons block in your forms.
When to use
Use the radio buttons block to let your respondents select one item from a list of choices you provide them.
How to use
Add a new block to your form and then select the question type Radio buttons
. You can now customize this block to your needs with the following features:
General
- Text
Use theText
feature for the name/title of this block. - Description
Enable theDescription
feature to add a description to this block. - Help text
Enable theHelp text
feature to add a help text to this block.
Settings
- Randomization
Enable theRandomization
feature to present the choices in a random order to your respondents (using Fisher–Yates shuffle).
Options
- Required
By default this block is not required to fill out by your respondents. Enable theRequired
feature to make this block required to fill out. - Visibility
By default this block is visible in your form. Enable theVisibility
feature to hide it for your respondents. - Score
You can attach scores to the choices to perform instant calculations. Enable theScore
feature to enter the desired score values. - Alias
By default the name/title of this block will be used in your dataset. Enable theAlias
feature to use a different name in your dataset. - Exportability
By default the collected data of this block will be stored to the dataset of each result. Enable theExportability
feature to take control over the storage. You can then include/exclude the data from your dataset. Please note that if you exclude data from the dataset you can never see and/or use the given answers from your respondents to this block, because the data is simply not stored at all.
Choices
Next, you can enter the list of choices that you want to show to your respondents:
- Add choices one by one
Click theicon at the bottom of the list and enter the choice name.
- Import a list of choices
Click theicon at the top of the list. Now supply a list with one choice name per text line and click
Import
to add them all at once to your list of choices.
From your list of choices you can open each choice to get to the settings of that single choice. Over there you can use these features:
- Name
Use theName
feature for the name/title of this choice. - Description
Enable theDescription
feature to extend the choice name with a description, for example to show an extra explanation. This description is shown below the name. - Identifier
By default the name of each choice will be used in your dataset. Enable theIdentifier
feature to use a different name in your dataset. - Score
Enable theScore
feature to enter the desired score value for that choice.
Logic
Logic is important to make your forms smart and conversational. The radio buttons block can work with the following branch conditions to help you with that:
Block conditions
- Match one of the options.
Evaluate conditions
- Value matches
your filter
; - Value does not match
your filter
; - Value contains
your filter
; - Value does not contain
your filter
; - Value starts with
your filter
; - Value ends with
your filter
; - Value is empty;
- Value is not empty.
Score conditions
- Score is equal to
your filter
; - Score is not equal to
your filter
; - Score is lower than
your filter
; - Score is higher than
your filter
; - Score is between
your filters
; - Score is not between
your filters
; - Score is calculated;
- Score is not calculated.
Filters
When we mention your filter
above, there are some different filters that you can use to make the right comparison:
- Text - Compare with a fixed text that you enter;
- Value - Compare with another block value entered in the form by a respondent (more info).
Calculations
You can use the calculator block to perform calculations with given answers. The radio buttons block supports the following calculation operations:
- Score - Calculate a score based on the entered score list for choices.