Delayed Branching

With simple branching you cannot set up logic based on responses to multiple questions. Also with Simple Branching the logic is executed immediately.

Compound Branching: With help of Compound Logic you can set up branching based on responses to multiple questions in the Survey.

Delayed Branching: With Delayed Branching you can set up Branching Logic based on a Question which was asked much earlier in the Survey.

Consider this example:

Q1: Gender
Q2: Age
Q3: General question to be answered by everybody
Q4: General question to be answered by everybody
Q5: General question to be answered by everybody

Now after Q5 respondents should branch to different questions based on their selection in Q1 AND Q2

Q6: To be answered only by respondents who selected Gender=Male and Age=18 and above
Q7: To be answered only by respondents who selected Gender=Female and Age=18 and below

Now all respondents should again answer rest of the questions.

Q8: General question for all respondents
Q9: General questions for all respondents.

Steps for setting this up:

Since the logic should be executed after Q5, click on the Logic icon for Q5 and go to Compound / Delayed Branching.

Step 1: Define Criteria

• Select the Compound/Delayed Branching option.
• On the Compound/Delayed Branching screen click on the Create New Criteria link. (You can also select from a Pre-Defined Criteria if you have already set up criteria)

• Enter a name for the criteria.
• Select the question on which you wish to base logic.
• Select the logic operator and answer option(s).
• You can also add up to 5 additional conditions.
• Click on Save.

Step 2: Set Logic

• Once criteria is set, select the jump to option if criteria matches.
• And otherwise logic which will be performed if the criteria does not match.