Short Text and Long Text

Short Text and Long Text are one field type with a switch between them. Short Text gives the respondent a single-line box. Long Text gives a taller box, which is what you want for a reason, an explanation, or anything you intend the AI evaluators to read. Both sit in the Text group of the Add Content palette. The button at the bottom left of the card switches between them.

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Settings

The card carries the settings every field shares. Short Text and Long Text add four of their own.

• Placeholder, up to 255 characters, shown in the empty box.
• Minimum Length and Maximum Length, counted in characters.
• Validation Pattern, a regular expression the answer has to match. The box shows /^[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*$/ as an example.

The messages a respondent sees when an answer breaks one of these rules sit under Validation in Languages and translations, as Min Text, Max Text, and Invalid Pattern. The same field switched to Long Text, with Criteria and Skills on:

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What it stores

Text, exactly as the respondent typed it.

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Logic operators

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Evaluation

Switch Criteria, Scoring, or Skills on for the form in the Evaluation tab and each one gets a switch on this card. Long Text is the field the AI has the most to work with, because the answer is prose rather than one value. It is the field to point Skills at, and the one where a Criteria check is worth handing to the AI instead of writing a rule.

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Related

• Form builder overview covers the builder, the shared settings, and every field type.
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