Location Selector Question
About Location Selector Questions
Location selectors let your respondents search through a set list of locations. Respondents can scroll through the list or even type addresses and names to find what they need. This feature is great for providing a dynamic list of your organization’s locations, such as different stores or campuses.
Setting Up a Location Selector Question
- Create a location directory. See Required Fields.
- Open the survey where you’d like customers to pick a location.
- Make sure your survey is set to the simple layout.
Qtip: Brand new surveys are set to the simple layout by default.
- Back in the survey builder, click Add new question.
- Select Location selector.
- In the location selector question, set the Location source to the location directory you just created.
Qtip: You may need to refresh the page before this source appears.
- If you’ve included latitude and longitude, you can enable Show locations near the respondent.
Qtip: This option makes it so that when the question first loads (or the search is empty), the list will automatically populate with nearby locations based on the respondent’s current IP address.
When you preview the survey, try searching for a few locations by using their location name, city, zip code, and so on. The list will show the locations most relevant to your search input. If you’d like to change how addresses are displayed for locations in the selector, see Editing Locations.
Required Location Data Fields for Location Selectors
One of the steps to set up a location directory is to create a file of the locations you want to be able to use in Qualtrics. In the previous section, we talked about how to download an example file format, but you may be wondering if all of the columns in that file are required. Below, we’ll give you a list of fields that are required.
- Location name
- Location ID (include the column, but leave the values blank)
Warning: You must leave location IDs blank to upload a new location. Upload existing location IDs to make updates to existing locations.
- Location Latitude (only required for Nearby feature)
Qtip: The location selector question has a “Nearby” feature that will search which of the locations you provided is closest to the survey owner. To activate this feature, your data file must include latitude and longitude fields.