Once the structure of your new form is complete (see our Adding, editing, and deleting Online Forms) it's time to add some questions for your visitors to answer. To do so, you have two options. You must either add questions directly to a created form or create the question in the account database and add it to the form. Every online form is made up of questions made in either way. So let us review how to add questions both to a form and to your database.

Let us start with an overview of how you add questions to a form.  Each online form is made up of questions created in one of two ways.  One method is to add questions to the database and then add them to the form (Jump to that section by clicking here).  A second method adds questions to pages on the form directly, which also saves them to a database (jump to that section by clicking here). Whether you choose to add all your questions to the database first or through the form (which also adds questions to the database), you will be adding questions to your form.  

Adding Contact Fields to your form

Before we talk about how to add questions we want to talk about Contact Fields.  When adding a new form, you can specify which contact fields, like address and home phone number, etc., are captured and/or required. These contact fields will appear at the beginning of your online form.  These are handled differently than adding questions.  So, for further information on this topic, please visit this user guide page Adding, editing, and deleting Online Forms

Adding questions to your form- Overview

If you want to add questions directly to a form, either from the database or directly, you must first start by going to your online form.  Do this by going to Features > Online Forms then selecting the form name you want to edit.  If you have not created your form yet, be sure to follow the directions found in the  Adding, editing, and deleting Online Forms page.  You will see something similar to the image pictured below.  Select the Questions button on the left.

Now you are on the screen where you can add questions to the form.  Select Add a Question to this Form.

From here you can either use the dropdown and add a question you previously added into the database (see the Adding Questions to the Database Section) OR use the green Create a new Question button (See the Adding Questions Directly section).  Below we will walk through how to add questions to the database directly or add them to the form directly (which also are saved in the database).  

Adding questions to your account- Using the Database

One way you can add questions is to add them to your database of questions directly.  This is very efficient, as then you can simply select them from the dropdown when adding them to your forms. To be clear, these questions are also stored and available for all future forms you may decide to create.  

To start go to Features > Online Forms > Questions.  

Once you click the Questions button, you have two options for adding questions to your account databases.  You can use both of these options together or just choose one, whichever works best for you:

• You can create original questions to use (Create a Question button). 
  
  • See the chapter,  Creating your own online forms questions  in this guide for details about creating your own questions. This is an extensive walk-through of the types of questions you can create.
• You can add all the default questions in the RescueGroups.org database (Create Default Online Form Questions button). These questions can be edited so that you can customize them. 
  • See the section in this chapter, Adding default questions for information about how to add the default questions. 
  • See the chapter  Editing and deleting online forms questions from your database  for information on customizing the default questions or editing any question you want to change.

No matter if you choose to use and/or edit default questions, make your own, or a combination of both there are a few things to consider, please see below.  

Adding default questions

If you click the Create Default Online Form Questions, those default questions in the RescueGroups.org database will be added to your account for you to use in creating online forms. These questions are common to many rescue groups, they are already named and created, and they can be customized. This example gives you an idea of some of the questions in the database. These default questions are pre-made with the answer types that you'll learn about in the section of this chapter about Creating Questions and Choosing Answer Types, and in the chapter about Using Select Groups. 

Editing default questions

Default questions are all customizable for your organization.  Select the edit button beside the named question to edit the default question.

Now that you have online forms questions in your account database, you can add them to your form using the dropdown to select the question.  You can do this as described in the section above " Adding Questions to your Form- Overview ".  

Adding questions to your account- Directly from a Form

Once you have followed the steps in the Adding Questions to your Form-Overview (Features > Online Forms > Name of Form > Questions > Add a Question to this Form)  and are at the point where you are adding questions (see image below), select the green "plus" button.  

From there, a pop up will show that allows you to create an online form question.   From there, follow the directions in our  Creating your own online forms questions  page.