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Our widget configuration feature allows you to select the kind of question and answer widget, suitable for each question in your Product Guide. 

These primarily help to display the format of questions and answers, showing you how they will appear in the Product Guide. You are automatically recommended the best-suited one, as well as other suitable options that you can choose from.

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With the aid of the widget configuration Widget Configuration view , it is possible to determine the appearance of your questions easilyQuestions very easy. The view is located in the navigation bar on the left-hand side when you enter a Product Guide.

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Configuration

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In earlier versions , the Question appearance was determined by its settings in the Concept Board. That means, if you are select that the user can only choose one answer for this Question, it was always converted into a Radio Button group (see mock-upmockup).

Without As a consequence without customizations, coming from excentos, it was not possible to get e.g. tiles with decoration images, a slider or checkboxes for this configuration.

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1. Less flexibility for the user
2. Higher effort for excentos
3. Longer waiting time to to get the desired widget appearance
4. More monotonous product advisors
5. Higher rates of errors after adapting the Product Guide configuration

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Configuration

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With the Widget Configuration view the previously mentioned issues can be solved. Now the user can get an overview of all widgets which are allowed for the current Question configuration (see image below). 

Here you can see that the widget "Dropdown" is selected for the Question - Question "What is your gender?".

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How does it work?

Each Question gets its own individual widget list. This list is calculated by our internal recommendation engine based on the Question configuration. That means that the view provides you not just all possible widgets that have been , they are sorted by a fit score. This score results from the individual Question configurations (e.g. depending on the answer option type or single vs. multiple option selection).

Furthermore , the widgets are divided into in sublists. These lists are named as "Recommended", "Further Possible" and "Not Supported".

Recommended

• This sub-list sublist contains the best possible widgets for the Question.
• Usually, these are the most used and best fitting widgets for the configuration.
• Additionally , the internal order can also contain a recommendation. The further on the left the better; except all have the same fit score.
• It contains the default widget. This is always the most left one on the extreme left in the recommendation list.

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• Widgets which can be displayed but a) have disadvantages to the recommended widgets or b) the ones that are rarely used are part of this list.
• A disadvantage could be:
  • Uncommon design pattern (e.g. using Radio Buttons for multi selectable Questions)
• Reasons for rarely used:
  • Widgets which are used for one specific use case which cannot be decided by the configuration itself (e.g. displaying an enumeration list).
  • Widgets which need additional custom content to look as like expected.
• All of them have a lower lover fit scorer score than the widgets from the recommended list and are internally sorted by this score. That means the further on the left the better.

Not Supported

• All widgets which are not part of one of the above sublists are placed in this list.
• These widgets do not fulfill the configuration requirements and as a consequence cannot be used for the questionQuestion.
• That is why this list is not visible in the view.

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Structure

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The view is segmented into 3 main parts:

1. Theme selectionSelection
2. Question selectionSelection
3. Widget selectionSelection

These segments have a logical order. That means that you should first select the right theme, then the question Question and afterwards the widget.

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Theme

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Selection

Each theme contains a different set of widgets. Hence , not every widget is available in one theme. Therefore , please make sure that you have selected the right theme before you start choosing your widgets.

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Question

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Selection

On the left-hand side and within the blue bordered box , you can select a Question. These questions Questions are structured within a tree layout. That means that like in the Language view you can navigate through the Stages to find the right questionQuestion.

Furthermore , you can use the search bar to find a question Question quicker by typing the name.

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Widget

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Selection

Next to the question selection, the  The widget selection card is positioned next to the question selection (see image in New Configuration). It is the main part of the view because it contains all selectable widgets for the selected questionQuestion.

The card includes the following components:

• Card titleTitle:
  It contains the name of the selected questionQuestion.
  
  
• Current widget selectionWidget Selection:
  Displays the current selected widget for the questionQuestion.
  
  
• Reset buttonButton:
  Clicking this button resets the widget selection to the default widget of the questionQuestion.
  
  
• Recommended widgets listWidgets List:
  Contains all widgets that are most suitable which are the best fitting for the current question Question configuration.
  
  
• Further possible widgets listPossible Widgets List:
  Contains all widgets which are permitted for the current question Question configuration, but may not be the best choice.
  
  
• Question informationInformation:
  Includes some additional question addition Question information

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Card Structure

Each widget card has the same layout components.

1. On top , you can see a mock-up mockup image of the widget. This image contains the main elements of the widget that . These serve for identification and comparison with others.
   Note: The image is not a real representation as shown like in the client theme. That means that it can look different in the various themes.
2. Below the image , the widget name is placed. That is the common name excentos uses for this widget.
3. The short description contains some detailed information about specific widget functionalities or additional elements. If the widget has neither of them, this label is invisible.
   1. For dropdowns , a functionality could either be "Close on select" (closes the answer option selection after one option was chosen) or "Remains open on select" (answer option selection is not closed after an option selection).
   2. For tiles , the information "Radio Button" or "Checkbox" is displayed because that is the only difference for these widgets.
4. The long description becomes visible by hovering over the info button. It contains more detailed information about the widget.

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Widget

The default widget is the first selected widget for each question Question and is always visible as the first widget in the recommended Recommended list. The selection is based on the question Question configuration. You can always go back to this widget by clicking the "Reset to defaultDefault" button.

This widget also serves as a fallback widget. That means that if the question Question configuration changes drastically changes and the current manually selected widget is not part of the recommended Recommended or further possible Further Possible list anymore, your widget selection is automatically adapted to the new default widget of the new configuration. In this case, a pop-up popup notification appears, e.g. in the concept board Concept Board, and tells you the described case.

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Information Card

The question information card is located on the right-hand side of the widget selection card. The following information should help you to decide which widget is the best choice for the questionQuestion.

• Name:
  Name of the question Question for a better identification
  
  
• Answers with decoration imageDecoration Image:
  Number of decoration images which are set for all answer options Answer Options of the questionQuestion. That information can be used e.g. to decide whether a widget with a displayed image (Tiles) is a good selection.
  
  
• Answer option typeOption Type:
  Information about the core question Question configuration settings. Here you can see if a question Question is ordered, numeric, single, multi or range selectable.

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I see no widgets in the view. What can I do?

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This That can have two different causes:

1. You have not added any questions Questions to the Product Guide. In this case, please go to the concept board Concept Board and click on the a "Add a new questionQuestion" button within the stage a Stage card.
2. Your selected theme does do not contain the widget configuration information yet. Please contact us, and we will solve this problem for you.

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Yes, that is possible. If you are using your custom theme which contains your own custom widgets, they are displayed like any other widgets in the overview.

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