Text surveys are helpful for collecting information associated with a scheduled event. Consider the example of planning an end-of-year party for your company. You may need to know:

With Sign-up Sheet, you can collect this information - and provide your participants with crucial information about the date, time, and location of the event at the same time.

Creating a text survey follows the same steps as creating a sign-up sheet, but with a few distinctions. In principle, Doodle is a scheduling tool, so using Sign-up Sheet to create a text survey assumes the information you are gathering is related to a scheduled event.

Let your audience know about the event by providing a name for the event, a brief description of the event, and the location.

Important: be precise with the date and time of the event and include that information in a single session.

When sign-up sheet participants respond to you, they will be obligated to pick at least one session, so provide just one session from which to choose from. The participant will treat it as a confirmation checkbox, indicating they understand the date and time of the event for which you are collecting information.

You can add unlimited free response questions to your sign-up sheet. Now you can gather vital information prior to hosting your event to ensure that everything goes smoothly. You can make your questions optional or required for your participants. Once you have added all your questions, click 'Create and share'.

Now share the sign-up sheet as you normally would and you can begin collecting the information you need for your event.

The answers to the custom questions you added to your sign-up sheet can be easily obtained by downloading an XLSX document.

Your sign-up sheet data will be exported to your 'Downloads' folder as an Excel document. Now you can easily visualize all responses, filter by respondent, time slot and more.