Re-Ordering Survey Pages

Changing Page Order

From within the Design page of your survey:

Locate the horizontal Page Options menu on the page you want to move and click the "..." (Three Dots) icon. Then Click "Move".

From within the Organise page of your survey:

The Organise page shows your whole survey as a list of pages and questions, so you can rearrange it without scrolling through the Design page. You can move a single question, move a whole selection of them to another page, and reorder pages themselves.

Nothing you do on this page reaches your survey until you click Apply changes, so you can rearrange freely and change your mind.

Remember to consider any Skip Logic, Display Logic, Piping or Carry Forward that you have in the survey when moving things, as it can affect how they work. Questions and pages involved in a rule are tagged so you can spot them before you move them.

Opening the Organise Page

From within your survey:

1. Click Build at the top of the page
2. Click Organise in the left-hand menu

Your pages are listed in order, each one numbered P1, P2 and so on, with its questions underneath. Question numbers are the same numbers respondents see, so they run through the whole survey rather than restarting on each page.

Pages open automatically so you can see everything at once. On a very large survey only the first page opens, to keep the screen readable — click Expand all to open the rest.

Moving a Page or a Question

1. Find the drag handle (the dotted icon) to the left of the page title or question
2. Drag the handle up or down
3. Drop it where the line appears

A question can be dropped anywhere in the survey, including onto a different page. Dropping a question below the last question on a page adds it to the end of that page.

To collapse the pages you are not working on, click the arrow to the left of a page title, or click Collapse all to close them all at once.

Moving Several Questions at Once

If you need to move a group of questions to another page, select them first:

1. Click a question row to select it, or tick the checkbox to its left
2. Hold Shift and click another question on the same page to select everything between the two
3. To take a whole page, tick the Select all checkbox at the top of that page's list
4. A bar appears at the bottom of the screen showing how many questions you have picked
5. Choose a page from the Move to page… list in that bar

The questions are added to the end of the page you choose. Click Clear selection in the same bar if you change your mind.

You can also drag a selection: pick up any one of the selected rows and the whole group moves together.

Finding a Question

On a long survey, use the Filter questions box at the top of the page:

1. Start typing any part of a question's text
2. Only matching questions are listed, and the matching words are highlighted
3. Pages open automatically so nothing stays hidden
4. Click the x in the box to clear the filter and get the full list back

Page order is locked while a filter is applied, because you are only seeing part of the survey. Clear the filter to move pages again.

Using the Outline

The Outline panel on the right lists every page in the survey with the number of questions on it. You can use it in two ways:

• Click a page in the outline to jump straight to it
• Drag questions onto a page in the outline to send them to the end of that page, without scrolling to it

This is the quickest way to move a question a long way through the survey.

Reordering With the Keyboard

Everything on this page can be done without a mouse:

• Tab to a drag handle
• Hold Alt and press the up or down arrow to nudge the page or question one place
• Or press Space to pick it up, use the up and down arrows to move it, then press Space again to drop it
• Press Escape while holding something to cancel the move and put it back

What the Tags Mean

Pages and questions are tagged where a rule or a setting applies to them, so you can see what a move might affect. Hover over any tag for an explanation.

On a page:

• Page logic: where respondents go after this page is decided by a rule, not simply the next page
• Display logic: the page is only shown to respondents whose earlier answers match a rule
• Randomised: the order of questions on this page changes for each respondent
• Terminal: responses are marked complete when a respondent reaches this page

On a question:

• Required: respondents have to answer before they can continue
• Hidden: the question is not shown to respondents
• Skip logic: an answer to this question can send the respondent to a different page
• Display logic: the question, or some of its answer choices, only appears when earlier answers match a rule
• CF Sender: a later question reuses this question's answer choices, so it has to stay on an earlier page than that question
• CF Receiver: this question reuses answer choices from an earlier question, so it has to stay on a later page than that question

Where a page has page logic, a note at the bottom of it spells the rule out in full — for example, "After this page, jump to Page 5".

Saving Your Changes

Your survey is not changed until you apply your work:

1. Rearrange as much as you like
2. Hover over the Apply changes button to see a list of what is pending
3. Click Apply changes to save the new order

To undo everything and go back to how the survey was when you arrived, click Discard changes. If you leave the page without applying, your changes are not kept.

If Apply Changes Is Greyed Out

The button is greyed out when there are no changes to apply, or when an arrangement would break a rule in your survey. Where a rule is broken, a message at the top of the page explains which questions are involved and the rows are highlighted so you can find them.

The most common cause is Carry Forward. A question that reuses another question's answer choices has to stay on a later page than the question it takes them from, because the choices are worked out as each page is shown. Move one of the two questions so the source comes first, and the message clears.

Once the arrangement is valid again, Apply changes becomes available.