Getting question and answer IDs

Question and answer IDs are used to prefill a form. There are several ways to get IDs for different types of questions.

Questions IDs

Question IDs are specified in the Settings, under the corresponding question block.

To reveal more question settings, click  Show settings at the top of the block. To hide the settings, click the icon again.

IDs for a series of questions

You can add a series of questions to a form several times. This means that questions from a series may repeat. To distinguish between multiple instances of the same question, question IDs that belong in a series get a suffix, which is the instance number after a double underscore. The numbers start with zero: __0, __1, __2.

For example, the form has a series of questions:

• Name with the text_2643945 ID.

• Phone with the phone_2752014 ID.

To prefill the fields in a series of questions, configure GET parameters:

• For the first instance of the series, which is displayed in the form by default, use the text_2643945__0and phone_2752014__0 question IDs.

• For the second instance of the series, which can be added by clicking One more), use the question IDs: text_2643945__1, phone_2752014__1.

Answer IDs

To find out the ID of an answer, click Show settings at the top of the block.

IDs can be edited. IDs of answers to a single question must be unique.

You can also find out the answer IDs in your browser using developer tools. This feature is available both to the author and user of the form.

Answer IDs for questions with suggestions

For some types of questions, such as Cities and countries and Wiki, users select their answers from suggested options that appear as they start entering text in the field. To find out the answer ID for these questions:

1. Open the developer tools using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I (for Windows and Linux) or ⌘ + Option + I (for macOS).

2. Enter the desired answer in the question field.

3. In the developer tools, go to the Network tab.

4. Select the last getSuggest query from the list on the left.

5. Go to the Response tab and find the desired answer option along with its id.

Answer ID for Rate on a scalequestions

Let's see how to get IDs using Yandex Browser:

1. Open the form by following the link.

2. Open the developer tools using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+I (for Windows and Linux) or ⌘ + Option + I (for macOS).

3. Select the tool and click the necessary answer field, list, or marker.

   

   You will see a fragment of the page code with the question or answer parameters highlighted in the Elements tab.

4. Find the ID values in the code:

   • Question ID: The name parameter value.

   • Answer ID: The last two digits of the data-qa parameter value. In the example below, this is 6815528_6815524.