AskAnywhere® Editor User's Guide - [Working with Library Items]

Working with Library Items

Adding Library Items to a Questionnaire Page | Saving Library Items | Predefined Libary Items

The following sections provide information about creating and saving library items with the AskAnywhere Editor.

Library items are predefined questions, answers, and/or multimedia elements that you can quickly and repeatedly include in your questionnaires without the need to create them from scratch. The AskAnywhere Editor provides a starting set of library items for your use. These predefined library items save you the time of creating many common types of answers. In addition, you can edit the predefined library items and/or create and then save your own library items for future use.

Adding Library Items to a Questionnaire Page

To add a library item to a questionnaire page, complete the following steps.

From the Add pull-down menu,

select Add Items From Library,
select the category of library items from which you want to choose (e.g., Attitudinal, Demographic, Geographical, or Miscellaneous), and

select the specific library item you want to use (e.g., Agree-Disagree, Better-Worse, Education, Gender, Transportation, U.S. Regions, Age and Birthday, Name and Address).

The selected library item appears on the questionnaire page.

You can then edit the library item as you would any other item.

Saving Library Items

In addition to providing predefined library items, the AskAnywhere Editor enables you to create new items and/or edit existing items and then save them for future use.

To edit and save a library item, complete the following steps.

As desired, create or edit the item you want to save as a library item.

Select the desired item.

From the Add pull-down menu, select Save Items to Library.

The Save Items to Library window opens. Select the desired path and file name for the new library item (The system default for the file name extension for library items is .ist.)

To replace an existing library item, enter the same path and file name as the library item you want to replace.
To save a new library item in an existing folder, enter the path of the existing folder and a new file name.

To save a new library item in a new folder, create a new folder in the AskAnywhereLibrary folder and then save the new library item in that folder.

To save the library item, select Save. To cancel the save, select Cancel.

Once you select save, that library item now appears when you select Save Items to Library from the Add pull-down menu.

Predefined Library Items

Attitudinal Library Items | Demographic Libary Items | Geographical Libary Items | Miscellaneous Libary Items

The following sections provide graphics of all the library items predefined in the AskAnywhere Editor.

Attitudinal Library Items

Agree-Disagree Attitudinal Library Item Better-Worse Attitudinal Library Item Concerned-Not Concerned Attitudinal Library Item Correct-Incorrect Attitudinal Library Item Excellent-Poor Attitudinal Library Item Favor-Oppose Attitudinal Library Item Great Deal-Poor Deal Attitudinal Library Item Important-Unimportant Attitudinal Library Item More-Less Attitudinal Library Item Positive-Negative Attitudinal Library Item Satisfied-Unsatisfied Attitudinal Library Item Superior-Inferior Attitudinal Library Item Thermometer Attitudinal Library Item True-False Attitudinal Library Item Likely-Unlikely Attitudinal Library Item Yes-No Attitudinal Library Item

Demographic Library Items

Age Cohort Demographic Library Item Age Cohort-Census Demographic Library Item Diploma Received Demographic Library Item Education Demographic Library Item Gender Demographic Library Item Household Size Demographic Library Item Income Demographic Library Item Length of Residence Demographic Library Item Marital Status Demographic Library Item Occupation Demographic Library Item Political Party Demographic Library Item Race-US Census Demographic Library Item Relationship Demographic Library Item Work Status Demographic Library Item

Geographical Library Items

Metropolitan Area Geographic Library Item Metro. Pop. Size Geographic Library Item NonMetro. Pop. Size Geographic Library Item Transportation Geographic Library Item Type of Structure Geographic Library Item U.S. Divisions Geographic Library Item U.S. Regions Geographic Library Item

Miscellaneous Library Items

Age and Birthday Miscellaneous Library Item Continue Miscellaneous Library Item Integer Miscellaneous Library Item Months Miscellaneous Library Item Name and Address Miscellaneous Library Item Name Miscellaneous Library Item Next Miscellaneous Library Item Open-ended Miscellaneous Library Item Random Miscellaneous Library Item Soft Drinks Miscellaneous Library Item Week Days Miscellaneous Library Item

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