In order to collect feedback from your stakeholders you need a dialogue/questionnaire. This chapter tells you how to create and edit a dialogue. A dialogue can consist of different types of questions. Furthermore you learn how to save and print a dialogue. The output of the Dialogue Designer is a dialogue file in XML format. If you define a new project with the Metatude Project Manager you can indicate which dialogue you would like to use.
To start the Dialogue Designer click on the Metatude Dialogue Designer icon in the start menu. When the Dialogue Designer is started, a blank dialogue is opened.
To open an existing dialogue, go to the File menu and choose Open (CTRL-O). A window is opened where you can select a folder on your hard disk or network where a dialogue is stored. Select the dialogue and click the Open button. The application now opens the dialogue file.
To save a dialogue file, go to the File menu and choose Save (CTRL-S). If you want to save the dialogue file under another name, go to the File menu and choose Save as. To print a dialogue, go to the File menu and choose Print.
A better way to see how the dialogue will look for the respondent, it to launch the dialogue in your browser. To do this, go the File menu and choose Preview.
When the dialogue has interactive elements, you can simulate the interactivity in the MDD. To do this, go to the File menu and choose Interactive Preview. The application launches the interactive dialogue in a window. By making choices and clicking the next button you can see the interactivity with the respondent. To see different interactive paths and patterns, you can start the dialogue from the start by clicking the button Refresh Dialogue at the top of the window.