Managing Custom Questions
To support making Event Custom Questions optional or required, specific fields should be added and arranged on the Organization Events page.
Question Options
You can create three different types of custom questions when creating or editing an Event:
- Open Ended - allows event registrants to enter their value
- Picklist - provides a list of specific options from which the registrant must choose
- Default value - populates the field with a default that the registrant can edit.
Creating Questions
While creating or editing an Event (as detailed in Creating and Updating Events):
- Scroll to the "Custom Questions" section.
- In the Field # Label, enter a label for your custom question.
- In the Field # Value area:
- To create an open-ended question, leave the field value blank.
- To create a picklist, enter a list of values separated by semicolons.
- To create a field with a Default value, enter a single value.
- Questions can be marked as required as needed.
Viewing the answers to Custom Questions
Each Event can include up to 10 custom event-specific questions. You can view responses in two locations.
Student Detail Page
Depending on your Page Layout, you can see responses in the Event History-related list on the student detail page. Note: You cannot have more than ten columns displayed in a Related list.
- Select a student from the Students tab.
- On the Student Detail page, scroll down to the Event History section.
Contact Schedule Item Detail Page
You can see responses to all ten questions on the contact schedule item detail page.
- Navigate to the Event History section of the Student Detail page (as described above).
- Click the Contact Schedule Item to open the item detail page.
- The student's answers to all event-specific questions appear on this page.