## Possible Answers for Radio buttons question

If you choose the Radio Buttons question type, you must fill in one answer per line on the bottom half of the Edit Questions window. Examples:

Editing Mode | Questionnaire View | (optional horizontal display)
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1.Possible answers : Red Blue Black | What is your favorite color? Red Blue Black | What is your favorite color? Red Blue Black
2.Possible answers : Red Blue Black !other | What is your favorite color? Red Blue Black Other: | What is your favorite color? Red Blue Black Other:
3.Possible answers: Red Blue Black !other=Another color: | What is your favorite color? Red Blue Black Another color: | What is your favorite color? Red Blue Black Another color:
| Questionnaire View | Text data export
4.Possible answers: Red=the color of blood Blue=the color of the sky Black=opposite of white | What is your favorite color? the color of blood the color of the sky opposite of white | The "values" Red, Blue and Black will be exported to the columns instead of standard 1, 2 and 3 numbers. See the Download as text format Help File.

You may enter `“!other”` on a line to create an optional fill in the blank option. An `!other` box defaults to using the prompt Other:, (or the equivalent translation for Other in the current language being used). You may change this default prompt by using the format: `“!other=prompt text”` as shown in Example #3 above.

## Notes

1. At the moment the length of the fill in the blank input text box is set to 25 characters and is not customizable through the online interface.
2. It does not make sense to provide more than one `!other` fill in the blank option for a Radio Buttons question.
3. If a respondent checks a fill in the blank option radio button and leaves the text field empty, a warning message will be displayed (upon navigating to the next page or upon submitting the questionnaire).
4. If a respondent has checked a fill in the blank option radio button and has filled in the text field, and later on changes his mind and clicks a different radio button in the same question, the fill in the blank text field previously entered will be automatically emptied.
5. Example #4 shows a possible "hidden" option, for exporting - in responses - named values as data instead of standard numbers. If you never export your data for studying it in stats packages you won't need this option.

Updated by JR on 21/11/08