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For each question, the user specifies the question name, the question, the question type and the possible answers, as described in the following table.

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S No.Attribute NameData TypeRangeDescription
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Short NameText (50)50 charactersShort name of the question ie i.e.  'Annual Family Income' instead of 'what is your annual family income'. Duplicates will be checked using this field. This field will also preface the full question whenever Questions are displayed
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QuestionText (4000)4000 charactersQuestion (as it will appear in the surveys) will be added here. Number of characters for the question '/' can be max 4000 but only 500 characters will be displayed in the question list.
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Answer Type and Answers 
See 3a - 3e 
3a.Single Select 
Number of options; Text fields = number of optionsNumber of options can be maximum 20. These answers will have radio buttons.
3b.Number 
Minimum Value allowed; Maximum Value allowedSpecifies the range of allowable answers that a question can have.
3c.DateNoneNoneDefinition of date will be inherited from MFI. If marked mandatory; at least option must be selected.
3d.Multi SelectNumber of options; Text fields = number of optionsNumber of options can be maximum 20. These answers will have check boxes. 
3e.Free Text 
Number of characters (1-4000 characters)User can define what size text field s/he wants to allow so some response fields can be a single line, others a large box.
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State 
Active;InactiveQuestions can be marked as inactive if they are not part of any survey. Inactive questions will not be visible in the Questions list displayed when creating a survey; however they will still be displayed in the Question Bank.

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S No.Attribute NameData TypeRangeDescription
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Survey Name  

Duplicate survey names will be allowed
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Survey Type 
Client; Group; Center; Loan; Savings; AllSpecifies who the survey applies to... Client/Group/Center together are grouped as customers when browsing surveys; Loan/Savings are grouped as Accounts
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Creation Date   


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Add Questions to Survey 
Search Results or All QuestionsQuestions will be added to the survey in the order of selection. Reordering of questions in survey will not be allowed
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Mandatory  

Specify which questions have to be marked as Mandatory in the survey. There is currently an issue in Mifos (Issue 2446) where if you set a question as Mandatory, you cannot unset it. Workaround is to create a new question and replace it in the survey.
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State 
Active;InactiveSurveys can be made inactive if they are not attached to any record

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