Question Options (360)
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About Question Options
In the question options menu, you can perform tasks such as randomizing answer choices, adding conditions to control who will see your question, and customizing other question aspects. To access the question options menu, either right-click on the question or select the question options icon to the left of any selected question.

The available question options in an 360 survey are the same as the ones in the Survey Platform. For an overview on question options, visit the Survey Platform’s Question Options support page.
Display Logic
You can use Display Logic to create a survey that is customized to each participant. When a specific question or answer choice pertains only to certain participants, you can set Display Logic on it so that it shows conditionally, based on previous information. Through Display Logic, you can create surveys that dynamically adapt to your participants’ answers.
When using Display Logic in 360 surveys, you will have three additional pieces of data that you can build your conditions off of:
- Evaluator’s Relationship: Allows you to build logic off of the relationship that the evaluator (the individual who is completing the survey) has with the subject of the survey.
Qtip: If an individual takes a survey about his or her self, the Evaluator’s Relationship would then be “Self.”
- Subject’s Metadata: Allows you to build logic off of the metadata that the subject of the survey is associated with in the Participants tab.
- Evaluator’s Metadata: Allows you to build logic off of the metadata that the evaluator is associated with in the Participants tab.
Otherwise, Display Logic works the exact same way in 360 surveys as it does in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Display Logic support page.
Carry Forward Choices
Carry Forward allows you to copy specific answer choices from one question and bring them into a future question in your survey. For instance, you can first show your participants a question that asks which products they have bought from your company in the last six months. You can then carry forward the choices they selected into the next question and ask the participants to rank their preference from those previously selected choices only.
Carry Forward Choices works the exact same way in 360 surveys as it does in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Carry Forward Choices support page.
Skip Logic
Skip Logic allows you to send participants to a future point in the survey based on how they answer a question. For instance, if a participant indicates that they don’t agree to your survey’s consent form, they could immediately be skipped to the end of the survey.
Skip Logic works the exact same way in 360 surveys as it does in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Skip Logic support page.
Add JavaScript
JavaScript is a programming language that enables you to accomplish more advanced functionality in your survey than would otherwise be available. For example, you can change the size of a question text box, create a custom question type, and much more.
Add JavaScript works the exact same way in 360 surveys as it does in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Add JavaScript support page.
Add Default Choices
You can use our Add Default Choices feature to pre-populate answer choices within a question when the participant opens the survey. This can be useful in situations when you ask participants to update previously collected data, such as mailing address, email, name, etc.
Add Default Choices works the exact same way in 360 surveys as it does in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Add Default Choices support page.
Recode Values
When you create a question, a recode value and a variable name are automatically assigned to each answer choice. The recode value is the numeric value of a choice, whereas the variable name is the name of the choice when you export in choice text format. These recode values and variable names are recorded in the collected dataset and you can modify them to align with your desired statistical analysis.
Recode values work the exact same way in 360 surveys as they do in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Recode Values support page.
Choice Randomization
Randomization is an important research technique used to help overcome the bias that can result from the order items are presented in. With Qualtrics, you can randomize various elements, including answer choices.
Choice Randomization works the exact same way in 360 surveys as it does in the Survey Platform. For more information, visit the Survey Platform’s Choice Randomization support page.