Creating custom question types

Sometimes it can be useful to create a custom question type if a certain type of question is used multiple times.

As an example take a dropdown_list_question, which requires the participants to make a comment only if a certain response option is chosen. A custom question type can simply be created by defining a custom function that provides the desired output. In this case we want to return a Tuple of questions consisting of one dropdown_list_question for selecting the response option and one short_text_question that is dynamically shown or hidden dependent on the response given.

using CitrusBuilder

function dropdown_with_comment(id, title, options, show_comment)
    dropdown = dropdown_list_question("$(id)", title, options)
    comment = short_text_question("$(id)comment", "Please enter your comment here.", relevance="{$(id)}==$(show_comment)")
    return dropdown, comment
end

dropdown_with_comment (generic function with 1 method)

We can now use this new question type to query for the survey participants favourite food and making them comment on their choice only if their favourite food item is pizza.

food_options = response_scale([
    response_option("p", "Pizza"),
    response_option("b", "Burger"),
    response_option("s", "Sushi")
])

food_survey = survey(100000, "A survey on food") do
    question_group(1, "") do
        dropdown_with_comment("favorite", "What's your favourite food?", food_options, "p")
    end
end

Survey with 1 group and 2 questions.
A survey on food (id: 100000)
└──  (id: 1)
    ├── What's your favourite food? (id: favorite)
    └── Please enter your comment here. (id: favoritecomment)