How To use Extended Screen - Android

Overview

This feature will enable you to show/hide part/all of the survey Questions in an extended screen for the interviewer to see.

The screen is a view only screen and the interviewer will not be able to choose the answers.

The Dual screen support can work with one of 2 different technologies:

1. Screen replication over WIFI/Bluetooth (Samsung calls it "Smartview" sometimes and it is accessed from the settings).
2. Connecting the tablet/phone through the USB port to an HDMI screen using a cable and an adapter. This technology is called MHL technology (Samsung and other vendors) or Slimport (non-Samsung vendors).

While #1 is "cooler" since there are no cables involved, from our experience anything "WIFI" related tends to be more challenging to setup in the field when connectivity issues arise.

#2 requires that the tablet will support MHL or Slimport and then you need a "MicroUSB/MHL -> HDMI adapater" or "MicroUSV/Slimport -> HDMI adapter"  – but once you have this, you have a cable on one end that connects to the USB port and another one that connects to an HDMI monitor or TV and it just works. 

Not ALL devices support MHL or Slimport, the list of devices supported is found here:

MHL: https://www.mhltech.org/devices.aspx

Slimport: https://www.slimportconnect.com/slimport-supported-devices/

Supported Question Types:

The extended screen is currently supporting the following question types:

Single Choice

Multiple Choice

Single Choice Grid

Multiple Choice Grid

Rating

Steps

If and when you would like to use the extended screen please follow these steps:

Navigate to the ‘Survey Properties’ scroll down in the list to the ‘Extended Screen’ Chapter and enable the Extended screen. 

Once you have enabled the Extended Screen, the different setting options will be available for you to configure.

Survey Properties

Field Name	Description
Extended Screen Answer Column Count	Defines the number of Answer columns on the extended screen
Extended Screen Topic Column Count	Defines the number of Topic columns on the extended screen
Enable	Choosing this option will enable the extended screen feature on the survey
Show Answer Images	Enables showing the answer images on the extended screen
Show Answers	Enables showing the answers on the extended screen
Show Answers Summary	Enables the summary of all chosen answers in the extended screen
Show Topic Images	Enables showing the Topic images on the extended screen
Show Topics	Enables showing the Topic on the extended screen

Please note: If you have questions that should not inherit the main survey settings you can change their specific settings by navigating to the question’s ‘Advanced’ Tab – scroll to the bottom to Chapter 12 - Extended Screen and change the default settings.

Advanced Question Properties

Field Name	Description
Answer Column Count	Number of Answer columns for a question
Enabled	Enables/Disables the Extended Screen Feature for a specific Question
Override Survey’s Answer Column Count	Set to True if you want to override the survey settings and display a different Answer column count in the question
Override Survey’s Topic Column Count	Set to True if you want to override the survey settings and display a different Topic column count in the question
Show Answer Images	Enables showing the answer images on the extended screen
Show Answers	Enables showing the answers on the extended screen
Show Answers Summary	Enables the summary of all chosen answers in the extended screen
Show Question Text	Enables to show the question text
Show Topics	Enables showing the Topic images on the extended screen
Show Topics Images	Enables showing the Topic on the extended screen
Topic Column Count	Number of Topic columns for a question

Setting Answer/Topic Properties: 

We have added 2 additional columns that control the Extended Screen settings for an answer/topic:

Extended Screen Good Answer - Checking this in an Answer will show only these answers in the Answers Summary, will usually be used if we would like to show the interviewer only the "Good" answers he chose, for example: showing only 'Yes' for Yes/No Answers. 

Extended Screen Hidden - Hiding the answer from the interviewer. Should be checked if you do not want to show the answer to the interviewer such as: Don't Know, Don't want to Answer etc. 

 

Using a Different Language in the Extended Screen:

If you would like to use a different language in the extended screen please use this script in your survey

You can use either of these options:

ExtendScreenMgr.SetLanguageByNetCode()

ExtendScreenMgr.SetLanguageByID()

 

Please find attached a sample of some questions and how they appear when working with an Extended Screen.