Saving your Questionnaire Design as a Template
The Style Templates option in Snap allows you to either apply a template to your current questionnaire, or to save a customised questionnaire as a template for use in another survey. This enables the user to quickly and easily produce professional looking questionnaires.
Creating a personalised template
Step 1
Customise the questionnaire using the Topics menu. For example change the number of columns within certain questions, the font used, the style of the boxes, etc.
Step 2
Where questions have been customised, new unnamed styles will be created (they will be called 'like' a style name in the styles drop down list). You must name the unnamed styles, as otherwise they will not be included in the template.
Step 3
To name an unnamed style, select the question then switch to Style Mode
.
Step 4
Select the Style Organiser
button.
Step 5
Choose the button and name the new style, e.g. Multi Choice 2 Columns.
Step 6
Click
in the Style Properties window and
in the Style Organiser.
Step 7
Snap will rename all other styles that have had the same customisation applied to the new style name.
Step 8
Repeat the process for all unnamed styles.
Step 9
Click
to return to Design Mode the newly named styles will be available in the Style Selection Box.
Step 10
In order to save as a template, select the Style Templates
button .
Step 11
Click
from the Template dialog box.
Step 12
Type in a File Name for the template e.g. House Style.
Step 13
Click
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Step 14
The new template is now saved in the Styles folder that is accessed by clicking the Style Templates button
. This will also include any new question styles that have been created in the questionnaire.
Step 15
This new template can now be applied to any questionnaire.
The following 3 options will determine how much of the template you wish to apply:
- Page Setup - portrait/ landscape, etc.
- Colours - the individual colour for the background/fonts/boxes, etc.
- Layout - the arrangement and format of individual styles of questions.
If all three options are selected, the entire format of the template will be loaded.