Creating and editing a survey

Each survey in Akvo Flow is created to capture data on a different subject. A survey can consist of one or multiple forms, which hold your questions that are organised into question groups. This chapter will show you how to create and edit a survey.

Creating and editing a survey First, make sure you are in the right folder in which you want to create the survey. Then, click the ‘Create new survey’ button in the upper right corner. This creates a new survey, which will be shown in the folder. If you have any subfolders, it will be shown below these.

To start editing the survey, click ‘edit’. This will display the survey editor, as shown below.

Survey settings In the survey editor you can customise your survey by changing its settings. You can give it a tile or decide if your survey is meant for monitoring, and more.

A lot is happening here, so we have numbered the areas of interest. Let’s go over them one by one:

1. Indicates the number of forms in the survey. A new survey has zero forms.
2. Indicates if this is a monitoring survey or not.
3. The title of the survey. A short title to describe the survey. On the device, this will be shown as the title of the survey as well.
4. Language: the master language of the survey. In addition to this, any number of translations can be added later. The default master language is English. Note: You can type your forms in any language you want. You do not need to change this setting in that case. This setting is used when you translate your forms to another language.
5. Button to add a form to the survey.

After changing the various settings, click ‘Save’.