RefractSurvey Questions
Questions are the actual content of your survey — each one lives inside a group and asks for one piece of information. See Question Types for the full list of what kinds of questions you can ask.
Building a question
From a survey's builder page, add a question to any group and choose its type, its text, and whether it's required. Markdown is supported in question text, so you can bold, italicize, or list your way to clearer instructions.
Reordering questions
Questions within a group can be dragged into a new order right in the builder — a dashed placeholder shows where the question came from, and a thin line shows where it'll land, so it's always clear what's about to happen. A newly added question is immediately draggable, with no need to reload the page first.
Required vs. optional
Any question can be marked required or optional. A respondent can't finish a group with an unanswered required question — if they try, they're taken back to the first one they missed.
Single and multiple choice answer options
For single-choice and multiple-choice questions:
- Each answer option can carry its own optional description, shown to respondents right next to the option's label (for example, a genre option like "Roguelike" might carry the description "Runs end in permanent death, but each run unlocks something new"). This never shows up in results or analytics — only the plain option label does.
- Answer options can be dragged into a new order in the question builder, the same way groups and questions can.
Description and image blocks
Not every question needs to collect an answer. Two special block types exist purely to add context:
- A description block shows some text (with markdown formatting) and nothing else — useful for instructions or a section intro.
- An image block shows a picture from your project's Media Library, with an optional caption.
Neither type is included when viewing or exporting responses, since there's no answer to collect.