Extended Questionnaires

Extended Questionnaires: Overview

Like the original questionnaire system , extended questionnaires enable you to define a series of questions that you can present to your staff and store their responses in database tables. However, extended questionnaires have additional features:

Extended questionnaires:

  • collect data in tabular format that can be reported, analyzed, and searched
  • present follow-up questions that branch depending on response.
  • provide response options of multiple choice, yes/no, free-form text, attached photos or documents, counts, lookups, and measurements
  • specify automatic follow-up workflow to be triggered by designated responses
  • can be administered any number of times
  • can be designated as optional or required

Note : Archibus also offers a basic questionnaire system. See Questionnaires: Overview .

Tables

Extended questionnaires and answers are stored in their own set of tables that include "ex" in their table name to distinguish them from the questionnaire tables of the original questionnaire system. For details, see Tables for Extended Questionnaires.

  • questionnaire_ext
  • quest_question_ext
  • question_ext
  • quest_answer_ext
  • quest_answer_ext

Uses

In the Compliance application, questionnaires take the form of compliance surveys (typically designed for field inspections) and are assigned to contract terms and program requirements. When events are generated for contract terms and program requirements, the user assigned to the event completes the questionnaire as part of the inspection process. The assigned user accesses the events and questionnaires from the Compliance Surveys mobile app or Web Central views on a laptop or tablet.

In the Maintenance applications, extended questionnaires take the form of maintenance checklists, which can be completed in the Maintenance mobile app.