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Enables you to capture short format text (e.g. Name) and long format text for open-ended questions (e.g. what is your feedback on the project?)
Refer to Validations & Skip Logics [General] and Skip Logics for how to use the following settings:
- This is required
- Help text/instruction
- Keyword
- Regular Expression (Regex)
- Use as response summary
- Checkpoint
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Turn on Accept multiple lines for long format text responses e.g. what do you think about….
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- Set the number of characters allowed by entering a minimum and maximum number.
- This is useful for validating data that has a specific number of characters e.g. phone number, ID number or car license plate.
- A character limit is a numerical limit on how many letters, numbers, symbols, spaces, digits, etc. data collectors can type as a response.
- If data collectors exceed any given character limit, they are instructed to cut down responses to fit the number of characters (letters/numbers/symbols/etc.) before the responses can be submitted via the Insyt mobile app.
![](https://www.insyt.esoko.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/text_validation.png)
Validation Rules
Turn on validation rules that reject and flag responses on the mobile app that do not meet defined rules.
For example, to set a rule that ensures a text response to the question [What is your favorite city] is restricted to responses chosen in a previous multiple-choice question [Which cities have you lived in?], set the following rule pictured on the left:
- Turn on Validation rule on the ‘What is your favorite city?’ question
- Select the first validation e.g. is in
- Select the second validation e.g. values
- Select the conditional question e.g. ‘Which cities have you lived in?’