Snap XMP Desktop comes with a number of style templates. These provide a range of alternative layouts and colour schemes. You can also create your own style templates from questionnaires.

Loading a style template

1. With the Questionnaire window open, click  to display the Editions and Style Templates dialog.

2. The three tick box fields relate to Page Setup (portrait/landscape etc.), Colours (the individual colors for the background of the questionnaire and the color of all the fonts used in the text of the question and the code labels) and Layout (the arrangement and format of individual styles of questions). If you select all three options, this loads all parts of the style template.
3. Click Load in the Style Template area.
4. Select one of the style template files, with extension QSF, from the list and press Open to load the template in to the questionnaire. This updates the questions using the new style settings. Save the questionnaire to save the new layout/colors as well.

Saving a template

If you make changes to the styles, you can save them as a template for re-use in other surveys.

You can only save named styles (not like styles) which you have saved in the Style Organiser in Style mode.

1. Click  to change to Style mode.
2. Click  to display the Style Organiser dialog.

3. Convert any new like styles into full styles by clicking the Properties button and renaming the style. Click OK to save the style.

4. Click  to display the Editions and Style Templates dialog.

5. Select the Page setup, Colours and Layout boxes to specify which attributes to save in the style template. You will need to check the Layout box to store the new styles.
6. Click Save.
7. Enter the file name of the style template. The style template files have the extension QSF. Click Save to save the style template. The new template will now be available to other Snap XMP questionnaires.

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Use the  button to change any of the settings in terms of Next Object, Next Part or Previous. Any changes you make to individual style properties remain with that style for the current survey. The changes are not available to other surveys created with Snap XMP.

To alter any of the settings in the copy fields, ensure that you select the appropriate Clone Next Object, Clone Next Part or Clone Previous. This highlights the selected elements of the question. Then you can use the cursor or the space bar to identify which element you want to copy.

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1. To rename any of your own styles, switch to Style mode 
2. Select one of the questions using the style that you want to rename.

3. Select the Style Properties button 
4. Click in the Name box at the top of the Style Properties dialog box.
5. Type in a new name and click on OK to save the style name within the current survey.

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Click  to display the Style Organiser dialog.

Viewing styles

• Select the type of styles you would like to view in the preview window from the Styles drop-down list.

Select All Variables to display all the questions in the current questionnaire in a list. This can be useful if you are not familiar with style names.

• Check the Fit to Window box to fit the question inside the preview window. This is especially useful when previewing titles and subtitles, which normally fit across the width of the whole page.
• The Sorting option orders the styles in the style list. There are three choices:
  • By Name lists the styles in alphabetical order.
  • Recently Used First lists the styles in most recently used order.
  • By family lists the styles in the family they belong to. The list shows style families in alphabetical order.

Creating new styles

Create a new style based on an existing style by clicking the New button. This copies the attributes of the style and allows you to give it a new name.

Managing temporary styles

Snap XMP Desktop creates temporary styles if you edit a question within questionnaire design.

1. You can convert these temporary styles into full re-usable styles by clicking the Properties button and renaming the style. Click OK to save the style.

2. You can also use a temporary style to overwrite the style it was based on, or set it back to being the base style. Click the Re-assign button to display the Extended Style Assignment dialog. The available choices depend on the selection.
   • Make the style “base style” look like variable changes the base style so it matches the selected style
   • Make all “base style” variables look like variable changes all the variables which have the same style base as the selected one look like the selected one.
   • Assign the style “base style” to variable is re-applies the original style to the variable.

Displaying style information

Click the Properties button to display the Style Properties dialog box. You can make changes to style names, or edit parts of the question. You cannot edit the names of the styles supplied with Snap XMP.

Deleting styles

When you Delete a style any questions in that style return to the appropriate base style. You cannot delete the base styles supplied with Snap.

Renaming a style

If you make changes to elements within an individual question and are working within Design mode  , the new changes will be saved as a new style called (like Grid First). If you have several questions that will be using the same layout as the (like Grid First) one, then you could choose to rename the style.

1. To rename any of your own styles, switch to Style mode 
2. Select one of the questions using the style that you want to rename.

3. Select the Style Properties button 
4. Click in the Name box at the top of the Style Properties dialog box.
5. Type in a new name and click on OK to save the style name within the current survey.

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1. Select the question you would like to change.
2. Select More Styles from the drop-down list of style names, or click the Style Picker button  .
3. The Style Picker dialog appears with the selected question displayed in the preview pane. You can see a list of all of the styles in the questionnaire on the left of the dialog box. To show the question with a different style, select a new style in the list. The preview will change accordingly.

4. Showing ‘All Variables’ displays all the questions from the current questionnaire with their associated style name in a list. This can be useful if you are not really familiar with style names as it allows you to pick styles by variable rather than by style name.
5. This updates the question showing the new style in the Questionnaire Window.

Style Picker options

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Choosing a question style in Design mode

When you are designing the questionnaire in the Questionnaire window, the question style drop-down list shows the most used styles, and a “More Styles” entry at the end of the list. Click this to open the Style Picker, which contains a list of all the available styles.

You can also access the list by clicking Style Picker on the Questionnaire toolbar. The Style Picker tool is an easy way of applying a question style to questions in your questionnaire. This tool is only available in Design mode .

Temporary Question Styles

Changes made to a question in Design Mode will create a new temporary style called “like” followed by the original style name. For example, when you change the style of an Open Ended question, the question changes to “like Open Ended“.

You can select the type of styles you would like to view in the preview window, by selecting from ‘All Styles’, ‘All Variables’, ‘Named Styles’, ‘Unused Styles’ or ‘Used Styles’ in the Style drop-down list.

Using Style mode to modify question styles

Style mode allows you to make modifications to the styles, whereas Design mode allows you to modify the individual questions. Style mode allows you to make consistent changes to all questions of the same style, without having to make individual question changes.

The style selection box

The following rules explains how styles affect other questions according to the value selected in the style selection box:

• questions that use the same Style as the highlighted question also change
• questions that are not based on the Style of the highlighted question do not change
• questions whose Style is based on the selected question’s style only change if the attribute that changed had the same value in both styles

Based on Styles

Not all styles behave in the same way when changes are made; some Styles are based on others. In addition to the ten pre-set styles, there is a Default style that is considered the parent style for five of the pre-set styles: Multi Choice, Grid First, Open Ended, Open First, Title and Instruction. In the same way, Title is the parent style for Sub Title.

The ten pre-set styles are Grid First, Grid Next, Instruction, Multi Choice, Open Ended, Open First, Open Next, Other, Sub Title, and Title.

All Styles derive from the default, either directly or through other styles as the diagram shows.

Style attributes

Each Style has Style Attributes which affects a number of different question elements. You can either set the value of each attribute, or it can inherit its value from other styles. The table below shows the full list of Style Attributes.

The Question Elements

The Style of a question defines its appearance in the questionnaire for each of its different Elements (see table below). You can change the location or format of each element in the questionnaire.

Organising the question styles

The Style Organiser tool allows you to view the styles you have used within the questionnaire. Style Organiser is only available in Style mode and can be used to sort styles, as well as rename and make copies of styles.

In Style mode , clicking the Style Properties button . This opens the Style Properties dialog for the selected question style, where you can change the style name, based on style and the question that can follow this style.

You can save the question styles as a Style Template so that you can use them in other questionnaires. This helps to create questionnaires with consistent branding.

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