Survey Logic & Functionality

Panoplai makes it easy to personalize your survey by employing logic to make surveys feel more relevant and conversational for participants. 

Visibility / Skip Logic

Use visibility logic to show or hide questions based on earlier answers — keeping surveys focused, relevant, and personalized. Visibility logic activates once your study has at least two questions, and lets you control when follow-ups appear, reducing fatigue and improving response quality. 

1. Decide the logic condition you want to apply.
   1. Example: Show Q2 only if a participant selects "Ice Cream" at Q1.
2. Click on the Eye Icon at Q2. 

1. Configure the logic in the pop up window: 
   1. Select the condition (e.g. Q1 = "Ice Cream")
   2. Choose the Visibility:
      1. Show: Make the question visible if the condition is met
      2. Hide: Skip or hide the question if the condition is met
   3. Set your Operator within the condition (AND/OR):
      1. Use AND when you want all selected conditions to be true
      2. Use OR when any one of the conditions can trigger the action

• When you have multiple conditions, you can use the following operators between conditions: 
  • AND
  • AND NOT
  • OR
  • OR NOT

Carry-Forward Logic

Carry-forward logic lets you reference a respondent’s earlier answer in a follow-up question — making the survey feel smarter and more personalized.

1. Use the format [%QX%] to pull in a previous answer, where X is the question number.
   1. Example:
      1. Q7: What is your favorite color?
      2. Q8: Why do you like [%Q7%] as your favorite color?
2. When live, [%Q7%] will be replaced by the respondent’s actual answer to Q7.
3. Reference multiple questions using this same syntax wherever you want those responses to appear.
   1. Example:
      1. What makes you say that [%Q7%] is your favorite animal and [%Q8%] is your second favorite animal?

Piping Responses (Carry Forward Selected Answer Options)

Answer piping lets you reuse the exact options a respondent selected earlier — keeping follow-up questions relevant, clean, and personalized. It filters out noise, so participants only see what applies to them.

Example: 

1. Q2: Which features are most important to you? (multi-select)

2. Q3: Please rank the features you selected.

In this case, Q3 will only show the options the respondent picked in Q2.

How to set it up:

1. Add your follow-up question
2. Use the same answer list as the previous question
3. Next to each answer option, select the eye icon
4. Apply visibility logic to each response -- just like you would when showing or hiding a question.

Always test using Preview Mode to ensure your logic is setup properly.