

For more info about formulas, see Examples of common formulas in SharePoint Lists. For example, if you’re asking an employee to enter the amount of time she’s worked in a department, you can specify that it could not be longer than the total time she’s worked for the company. In the User Message box, describe what the user needs to do to ensure the answer is valid. In the Column Validation section, if you want to check whether an answer is valid, enter the formula you want to use for validation in the Formula box.

On the New Question page, enter your question text, and then select the type of answer that you want in the Question and Type section for your first question. In the Survey Options section, specify whether you want people's names to appear with their responses and whether people can respond more than once to the survey. To add a link to this list on the Quick Launch, in the Navigation section, select Yes. In the Description box, enter a description of the survey. To enter a description and to specify navigation and survey options, select More Options. The name also becomes part of the web address for the survey page, and it appears in navigational elements that help users to find and open the survey. The name is required and appears at the top of the survey page. In the Name box, enter a name for the survey. In the Search Installed Items search box in the upper left of the screen, under Data, enter survey, and then press Enter.

On the All Site Content page, and then at the top left of the page, select Create. Select Site Actions, and then select View All Site Content. Navigate to the site where you want to add a survey. Note: To create a survey, you must have permission to create lists on the site where you are creating the survey. For more info on formulas, see Examples of common formulas in SharePoint Lists. For more info, see Add branching logic to a survey. You can then go to the Survey Settings page and add branching logic. If you want to add branching logic, that is the survey asks different questions based on what the last answer was, you'll need to finish creating the survey first. Depending on the type of question, you can also enter answers to choose from and an optional default value. In the Additional Question Settings section, specify additional settings for your question, such as whether an answer to the question is required. Questions are added sequentially when you created them, however you can change the order of the questions from the settings page. If you want your questions number, put the number into the Question Name. Note: There currently is no way to number questions for display, as you can't add additional columns to a Survey. To see your survey, under Recent in the Quick Launch bar, select the survey's name. If you are finished adding questions, select Finish. Continue the process until you add all the questions that you want. To create additional questions, click Next Question, and then enter information for the next question. In the Column Validation section, if you want to check whether an answer is valid, enter the formula you want to use for validation in the Formula box. If you want to add branching logic where the survey asks different questions based on what the last answer was, you need to finish creating the survey first. Depending on the type of question, you can also enter answers to choose from and set a default value. In the Additional Question Settings section, you can specify whether an answer to the question is required, or people can respond more than once to the survey. Note: There currently is no automatic way to number questions for display, as you can't add additional columns to a Survey.
