Create a Question
You create and save questions to use later in initiatives. By creating the questions separately, you can build a repository of frequently used questions for reuse. Therefore, you don't have to recreate the questions every time you want to create a new initiative.
In this scenario, Clare Furey, the supplier qualification manager, is creating questions for later use in an initiative
Creating a Simple Text Question
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Clare begins by navigating to the Manage Questions page.
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She clicks the Add icon.
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She enters her question on the Create Question page, as displayed in the following table. (If no information is specified, she accepts the defaults.)
Attribute
Value
Question name
Annual Revenue
Owner
She checks the default Clare Furey
Question Level
Supplier
Responder Type
Supplier
Question Type
Text entry box
Question Text
Enter your expected revenue for the current fiscal year.
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Once Clare enters all the information in the preceding table, she is finished defining the question. She clicks Activate and then Save and Close. She returns to the Manage Questions page.
Creating a Question with a List of Acceptable Responses
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She clicks the Add icon.
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She enters her question on the Create Question page, as displayed in the following table. (If no information is specified, she accepts the defaults.)
Attribute
Value
Question name
Corporate Functional Currency
Owner
She checks the default is Clare Furey
Question Level
Supplier site
Responder Type
Supplier
Mapped to supplier attribute
Clare checks the check box.
The Supplier Profile Attribute field displays.
Clare clicks the search icon.
The Search and Select: Supplier Profile Attribute dialog box displays.
She chooses Corporate Profile from the Category menu and clicks Search.
The attributes for the Corporate Profile category appear.
She highlights the Preferred Functional Currency attribute and clicks OK.
Question Text
Select your preferred currency.
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She enters all the information in the preceding table and finishes defining the question. She clicks Activate and then Save and Close. She returns to the Manage Questions page
Creating a Question with Question Branching.
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She clicks the Add icon.
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She enters her question on the Create Question page. (If no information is specified, she accepts the defaults.)
Attribute
Value
Question name
Company Age
Question Level
Supplier
Responder Type
Supplier
Question Type
Multiple choice with single selection
Question Text
Enter your company's age.
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This question's final answer varies depending on whether the company is less than one year old. If the company is older than one year, the resulting question prompts for an age value. If the company is not yet a year old, the resulting question prompts for a list of key investors. To define this question branching, Clare must define the test question first, so she clicks the Add icon for Acceptable Values. She must add an entry for each of the possible values.
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For the first allowable value, she enters "Less than one year." She then clicks the icon to edit the question branching.
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On the Edit Question Branching dialog box, she clicks the Search and Add icon.
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Searches for a question called Identify Investors. This question has been previously defined and is regularly used in many initiatives. When she sees the question in the search results, she highlights the question in the table and clicks Apply. Then she clicks OK to close the Search and Add dialog box. She clicks OK again to close the Edit Question Branching dialog box.
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Now that the first test condition has been taken care of, Clare defines the remaining condition.
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She adds another allowable value called "More than a year old." She edits the question branching for this value and identifies an existing question called More Than One Year. This question is a simple text box that prompts the supplier to enter a number.
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Now that she has finished defining the parent question, she clicks Activate and then Save and Close.
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She has completed defining her questions at this point, so she leaves the Manage Question page.
Creating a Scored Question
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She clicks the Add icon.
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She enters her information on the Create Question page. (If no information is specified, she accepts the defaults.)
Attribute
Value
Question
Number of employees?
Owner
She checks the default, Clare Furey
Question Level
Supplier
Responder Type
Supplier
Question Type
Multiple choice with single selection
Question Text
How many employees do you have?
Scoring
Automatic
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In the Acceptable Responses, Clair must specify the acceptable responses, so she clicks the plus sign. She enters the values:
Number of Employees
Score
1 to 100
20
101 to 500
30
More than 500
50
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After specifying the response values and their scores, she is done defining the question, so she clicks Save and then Activate.