Build a survey

Build surveys in the Survey editor (Survey constructor), inside the Surveys & Buttons menu.

1. Create a survey

Choose New survey and give it a Name.

2. Add questions

Add a question and set its Question type:

Type	Guest answers with
Text	free text
Email	an email address (validated)
Phone	a phone number with country code (validated)
Select	one option
Multi-select	several options
Yes/No	a boolean
Rating	a star score
Date	a date

3. Configure a question

Each question has:

• Header — the question text the guest sees and answers (pick a rating, choose a date, type a phone/email/text, or make a choice).
• Tag — read this carefully. The tag is the key MixUp uses to substitute the guest’s answer into your content (see below).
• Required — whether the guest must answer.
• Options — for Select / Multi-select, enter the options yourself (for example day, night, noon, evening) — as many as you need.
• Rating — set the maximum number of stars (only the max is set; e.g. a max of 5 gives 5 stars, and the guest taps 4 or 5).

The tag (how substitution works)

The tag connects a question’s answer to your templates. Two places use it:

• AI prompt — write the tag inline as $$tag$$ in the AI template’s prompt. Example: in the prompt you write $$tag1$$ where the time of day should go, and add a Select question with tag tag1 and options day / night / noon / evening. When the guest picks day, “day” replaces $$tag1$$ in the prompt — so the AI result is customized per guest. See Photo AI modes.
• Photo template — a User data layer references the tag by name to print the answer on the photo. See Use tags on photos.

Tag helper: next to the tag field there’s a dropdown listing tags already used in the selected projects and templates. If you’ve already prepared an AI template with tags, open the dropdown and pick one — it fills the tag field for you.

4. Survey options

Open the survey’s options (the gear at the top) to set:

• the survey Name (you can also change it here),
• Auto-confirm — for question types that support it, tapping a choice moves straight to the next question with no separate confirm button. Set it to advance immediately, or after a timer (e.g. 3 seconds — if the guest doesn’t change their answer in time, it moves on). It can also be turned off.
• Allow back — lets the guest return to the previous question to fix a mistake.

5. Preview and manage

From the main menu you can:

• Preview — step through the survey exactly as it appears in the booth.
• Copy — duplicate the survey, to tweak a variant without touching the original.
• Export / Import — export a survey to a file, or Import one from another MixUp booth.
• Delete — remove the survey. If it was linked to a project, that link is removed from the project, and the project is no longer tied to it.

6. Enable it for the event

A survey only runs when the event’s session includes the Survey data step — see Run your first session.

Next: Use tags on photos →