Step Types

The MyDataHelps Designer survey editor provides a number of types of steps you can use in your surveys.

The following sections summarize the different step types. Details on how to configure and use these steps can be found in the individual step type articles.

Common Steps

These steps are typically the backbone of a MyDataHelps survey, providing instructions and capturing participant responses.

Specialized Steps

These steps have scenario-specific uses.

Active Tasks

MyDataHelps Active Tasks require their own separate surveys. They are not step types. See Active Tasks for details.

Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs)

MyDataHelps EMAs require their own separate surveys. They are not step types. See Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) for details.

Additional Topics

You may also want to review:

• Participant Fields - Describes how to use demographic, identifier, and custom fields in your survey steps.
• Setting Demographic & Custom Fields From Survey Answers - Describes how to save an answer value into a participant demographic like age or address.