Survey template — questions

Where to find it

Configuration → Templates → Survey Template → Questions tab

Who can use it

Administrators with template access

Direct URL

https://admin.nextal.com/conf/admin/surveyTemplates

🔒Requires permissions:Template List, Template Edit

The Questions tab is where you build the questionnaire for a survey template. You design it once; every time a recruiter or HR manager sends this survey, respondents see exactly these questions in this order.

Screenshot pendingThe Questions tab showing four sections — Welcome Screens, Screener Questions, Demographic Questions, and Thank You Screens — each with an add button and a list of items with order arrows and an action menu.

The Questions tab with its four sections.

Note

Editing is only possible when the template is in Draft status. Active and Archived templates can be viewed but not modified.

The four sections

The Questions tab is organized into four sections. Each section has its own add button and list of items:

Section	Purpose
Welcome Screens	Introductory screens shown to respondents before the first question. Each screen has a title and a description (rich text).
Screener Questions	The main set of questions. These are the questions respondents answer in the survey.
Demographic Questions	Optional questions about the respondent’s background (e.g., age range, region).
Thank You Screens	Closing screens shown after the respondent submits. Each screen has a title and a description.

Adding an item

Click the Add button at the top of each section to append a new item. For screener and demographic questions, you configure:

Setting	What it controls
Type	How the respondent answers (see below).
Required	Whether the respondent must answer this question before submitting.
Question	The question text as the respondent will read it.
Description	Additional context displayed below the question text.

Question types

Type	Description
Text	An open-ended text answer. You can set minimum and maximum length.
Date	The respondent picks a date.
Dropdown	The respondent picks one option from a list you define. Supports “Allow other”, “Randomize”, and “Alphabetical Order” options.
Multiple choice	The respondent picks one or more options from a list you define. You can set minimum and maximum selections. Supports “Randomize” and “Alphabetical Order” options.
Number	A numeric answer. You can set minimum and maximum values.
Rating	A numeric scale. You set the range (number of steps).
Website	The respondent enters a URL.
Boolean	A Yes/No question.

For “Dropdown” and “Multiple choice” types, you manage the list of answer options inside the question editor. Each option can be set as Active or Inactive, and you can reorder them with the ▲ ▼ arrows.

Reordering items

Items within each section are reordered using the ▲ (up) and ▼ (down) arrow buttons shown in the “Order” column. The order arrows are only visible when the template is in Draft status.

Deleting an item

Click the “Delete” option in the action menu on an item to remove it. Deletion is only available when the template is in Draft status.

AI assistant

An AI Assistant button in the page header (next to the action menu) can help you build the question list: Generate drafts questions and a title from a short brief, Improve rewrites the current questions for clarity and a consistent tone, Spelling fixes mistakes without rephrasing anything, Suggest proposes additional questions, and Translate fills in the missing text for the languages you select. Every result is shown for review before anything is applied. The assistant is included for every organization; the button is active only on Draft templates for users with template-edit access, and is otherwise shown disabled with a tooltip explaining why.

The Spelling tab

The panel’s Spelling tab proofreads the survey title and the screener and demographic questions — question text, description and answer options — in a single language, the one in the tab’s Language selector (by default the template’s working language). Click Fix spelling: the assistant lists the corrections as “before” → “after”, shows the corrected title and then a preview of the corrected questions, in that language only. It never changes a question’s type, order or required flag, nor any answers already received; the other languages’ text and the welcome and thank-you screens are left alone. Accept applies the corrections; Discard closes without changing anything. If there is nothing to fix, the tab says so and there is nothing to accept.

Note

Spellcheck. The browser underlines misspelled words in the Title, Question, Description and Answer fields, in the language selected in that editor — not your interface language. If nothing gets underlined in French or Spanish, install that dictionary in your browser. The AI assistant’s Spelling tab then proposes a corrected version — spelling, grammar, punctuation, accents — with the list of corrections; nothing is applied until you accept.

Tips

• Put your most important question near the top of the Screener Questions section. Respondents may not complete all questions, and drop-off increases toward the end.
• Use “Rating” for dimensions you want to track over time — they aggregate nicely in the Results tab.
• Use “Required” sparingly. Forcing an answer on every question increases abandonment.