Creating multiple editions of your questionnaire
This worksheet describes how to create a web questionnaire from an existing paper questionnaire by creating a new edition. You can use the same process to make any number of editions of a single questionnaire. This allows you to publish the same questionnaire to paper, kiosk, or web outputs, and analyse all the resulting data as if it was from a single survey.
Background
Editions of a questionnaire contain the same number of questions, in the same order, with the same response type for each question. How the question looks may be different in each edition. Variable properties remain the same. This includes the text, routing specifications, patterns, masks, and any text substitutions. Take care, as some properties only have meaning in the web edition.
If you wish to create questionnaire editions with different question texts, you must create a new language version of the questionnaire. This is not dealt with in this worksheet.
Changing between editions
When you create a new edition, new tabs appears at the bottom of the questionnaire design window. Click on the tabs to change from one edition to another.
The questionnaire properties change between the editions. The correct properties appear when you have an edition selected and click the questionnaire properties button 
. If you can't see a property, check that you are in the correct edition.
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Design
You can:
- Make notes and questions visible in one survey but not another (for example, hide the text "turn to the next page" in a web survey)
- change the way the survey is laid out (columns, margins, alignment, breaks and backgrounds)
- change the way the question text appears (font, what numbering is visible, position, what items are shown, tabs)
- change the way the response space appears (boxes, position, what items are shown)
Note that some of the properties associated with individual design topics are different in the web and paper editions. For example, the boxes topic in a web edition provides interactive ways of displaying single and multi-response questions (e.g, drop down lists) which you cannot use on paper.
Analysis
Because the variables are exactly the same in all editions, even though the questionnaires may look different, you can combine data from paper questionnaires and from the web, and analyze it together.
When you have multiple editions of a questionnaire, a new variable (question id.format) is created automatically. This is preloaded with the edition value when you publish the questionnaire, allowing you to do analysis by edition.
Summary of steps
To create another edition of a questionnaire you need to:
- Open the questionnaire and create a new edition.
- Make the design changes to the new edition.
- Test the new edition.
- Publish and distribute the editions.
The instructions below describe how to create a snap online web edition from a paper questionnaire.
Step 1: creating the edition
- Open the paper questionnaire in questionnaire mode
- Press [Control][Shift][E] or click the editions and style templates button
. A dialog appears, displaying the current editions.
- Click [New...].the new survey edition dialog appears.
- Set the publication medium to web and set the publish type to snap online. You can also change the edition name from the default, but keep some mention of the output type in. Click [OK].
- A new tab appears at the bottom of the questionnaire and you are returned to the editions and style templates dialog. Click [OK].
Step 2: making the design changes
Check that you are in the edition that you want to edit (the tab at the bottom of the window will be highlighted). Some changes will have been made automatically, for example, single-response question boxes are changed into radio buttons
make any further changes that are needed. For example, you might wish to hide instructions in one edition but not another, or alter the selection boxes.
When you are satisfied with your questionnaire, click the save button 
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Hiding instruction text
- To hide the instruction "now turn the page", select the text.
- Select Show in the Topic Objects list and select Text in the next list.
- Uncheck the Show box. The text disappears.
Changing boxes to a drop-down list
- Select the single-response question to change
- Select boxes in the Topic Objects box and check the Drop-down box. The default radio buttons will change to a drop-down list.
Creating page or screen breaks
- Select the question that you wish to appear after the page break.
- Press [Control] [S] to add the page break before the question (you can press [Control] [S] again to remove it).
Step 3: publishing the design
Before you publish the design, you may need to set up the questionnaire properties for how the respondents are invited. Full details of how to do this are in snap internet help or the .pdf manual provided in a default installation (Start | All programs | Snap 9 | User guides | Online Interviewing and Analysis).
Publish the new edition by selection File | Publish or clicking [Shift][Control][W].