Allows for a free-style answer to the question. Any text can be entered by the respondent. If checked, the following options can be set:
- Rows: The height of the text field. It is the number of text lines visible to the respondent, but not the limitation of how many lines can be entered.
- Columns: The width of the text field. "50 columns" means that 50 characters (approx) will be visible horizontally.
- Max chars: The max number of characters allowed.
Label: Label for text field. This will be shown to the left of the text field if the number of rows (height) is 1 (one). If the height is more than one, the label will be displayed above the text field. On a field with height 1, you can force the label to be placed above it by inserting an HTML break tag after it:
This is my label<br>
Examples:
Allow images: Enable this feature to allow respondents to upload images, and attach these to the survey response. The respondents will see an image-button to the right of the free-text field. Clicking on this button will open the image upload-window. When the image is uploaded, the link to the image will be inserted into the text-area. This is the actual code for the web-link, and looks like this:
<img src="http://mydomain.com/opinio/upload/surveys/152/518506/logo.gif">
The max image size allowed can be set in the survey attributes. (see the section called “Other survey information”) The images will be stored on the server in this folder:
upload/surveys/[survey-id]/[respondent-id]
The survey-id and respondent-id is unique ids automatically assigned to the survey and respondent as they are created.
Below is a sample survey with a simple rating question and a text-box with the image upload feature enabled. The example shows the window as the file is being selected and uploaded.
