Adding questions to your account

Once you click the Questions button, you have two options, giving you three choices:

• You can add all the default questions in our database (Create Default Online Form Questions). 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 online form questions for information on customizing the default questions or editing any question you want to change.
• You can create original questions to use (Create a Question). See the chapter, Creating your own online forms questions in this guide for details about creating your own questions.
• You can add the default questions and also add a few custom questions for situations not addressed in the default questions (Add default questions, customize them, then add your custom questions).

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 question/answer types, and in the chapter about Select Groups. Once you've added a question to your form from the database and the form is in use, you have few options for changing the type of answer you require (such as multiple choice, freeform text) because answers are already submitted with those question/answer types. You don't want to lose that information. Therefore, if a default question uses a different type of answer than you want to use, change it before enabling the form you are using it in for use.