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Here are two more tips to help you build quick and clean survey questionnaires in mobile survey software.

Use sections to group related questions

Sections are most commonly used to start and end question groups where you want to use rostering or looping, randomization, or rotation (Enterprise-only).  Since sections are never displayed to the user, you can use them sparingly to help you organize groups of questions in your project. 

Avoid using “goto this” on prequestion

The command “goto this” is used to reference the current question.  Using “goto this” is easier and more reusable than referring to an explicit question name. It forces the current question to be reloaded.  This is useful when you are doing additional validation in postquestion scripting. 

You can also use this command in a prequestion script, BUT you must be extremely careful!  If you allow for a scenario where the prequestion goto this always fires, you will send Entryware Mobile into an infinite loop and lock up the device! 
 
More tips next time!