Answer component examples

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Closes 31 Jan 2025

Answer components available to you

1. What is your name?
2. What is your email address?
If you enter your email address then you will automatically receive an acknowledgement email when you submit your response.
3. What is your organisation?
4. Dropdown list: An alternative way of allowing recipients to select one answer 
from a list of choices:
5. Number: This will only allow numbers as digits:
6. Radio buttons: These allow respondents to select only one answer from a list of choices:
7. Checkboxes: Give respondents the opportunity to select more than one option:
8. Single checkbox (Yes/No): A single tick box to allow a 'yes/no' or similar response to a question or statement:
9. Matrix of choices: Allows you to set up multiple rows of checkboxes, radio buttons or dropdown lists with the same set of options for each one. A matrix of radio buttons allows respondents to select one option in each row:
10. Matrix using checkboxes is also an option. How often do you buy?
11. Ranking: Allows respondents to rank a number of items in order of priority or preference. Let us know what is your 3 most important services?
12. Fact bank: Enables you to add supporting information in a number of formats:

More information - Fact Bank answer component

Additional information - Fact bank: This answer component allows you to add in formatted detail to questions, it's useful if you want to add some explanatory text or some context to a question. By choosing this answer component, you will be provided with the usual text editor you will be used to from across Citizen Space, this will allow you to add in images, rich media and formatted text within the question area. The difference between this and the 'Additional information - text' answer component is that this allows you to put the detail into a fact bank, which respondents can open by clicking on it.

You can also use the Fact Bank answer component...

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13. The text answer component can also be used to add an image, or PDF, or rich media to the body of the page.

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