# Questions

On certain places on our platform you can create questions that other people need to answer. This is a great way to collect the data you need to organise your event. Some examples of where you can add questions are:

* Questions that need to be answered by [forms](https://docs.eventication.com/event/accreditation/lists/questions)
* Questions for [members](https://docs.eventication.com/event/planning/settings/event/questions#custom-questions)
* Questions for [groups](https://docs.eventication.com/event/planning/settings/groups/questions)
* Questions for leasing [stock](https://docs.eventication.com/event/stock/inventory-categories/types/questions)

Creating a questions is pretty easy and only requires a couple of steps.

### Answer kind

This is what kind of answer you are expecting. Options are:

* **yes / no**, just a yes/no selection that is blank by default
* **short text**, with a maximum of 256 characters
* **long text**, with a maximum of 11.000 characters
* **date**
* **date with time**
* **number**
* **url**
* **select 1 option**, create those in the next section
* **select multiple options**, create those in the next section
* **one upload**, maximum 20MB
* **many uploads**, maximum 20MB

### Question

The actual question you want to ask.

### Description

A subtle description underneath the question.

{% hint style="success" %}
This text area supports [formatting](https://docs.eventication.com/event/misc/text-formatting).
{% endhint %}

### Visible?

An invisible question can not be seen by the person who is supposed to answer the questions, but can be seen and edited by moderators. Invisible questions can not be required.

### Required?

Required questions can block the download of tickets, signing of documents or leasing of stock if not answered.

### Enable / disable data

If you want to enable this question only for a certain timeframe, you can do so by entering the **Enabled from** and **Enabled until** attributes. Outside of that data the question will be disabled for the user to fill.

{% hint style="info" %}
Moderators can **always** change questions and answers, even if they are currently not enabled.
{% endhint %}

You can write a **message** that should be displayed if the question is currently disabled to inform your users on what to do now.

Or you can **hide** the question when it is disabled.

{% hint style="warning" %}
If you question is only available for a **certain period**, and it is **required**, make sure you add information for the user to see. Otherwise they might not be able to download their tickets or submit their request.

If that question is also **hidden** when it's **disabled**, the user will not know what's wrong as their required question can not be seen. 

Use with care.
{% endhint %}

### Options

If your question is a "**one upload**" or "**many uploads**" answer kind, you have to create those options. This ability will be presented to you after you create the question. Click "*Edit options*" to... edit the options 😅

The page that is presented to you allows you to create, translate, reorder, edit and remove question options.

### Extra text on single choice

When editing your question options, select "**Allow extra text?**" to enable users to add additional text to their answers for that choice.

### Disable a single choice

Multiple-choice and single-choice questions have the option to be disabled. This feature is useful when you've presented a person with numerous options, but some of those options have since become unavailable.