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Creating a risk assessment survey

Written by Hyperproof Support
Updated this week

Roles and permissions

The following roles can create a risk survey:

  • Administrators

  • Compliance managers

Creating a risk assessment survey

  1. From the left menu, select Assessments.

  2. Select the Risk surveys tab.

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  3. Click New.

    The New survey window opens.

  4. In the New survey name field, enter a name for the survey.

  5. Click Create.

  6. Click New, then select Section.

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  7. Enter a name for the section.

    Once you’ve created the first section, you can then begin to add questions. For more information on creating and editing questions, see Adding questions to a risk survey below.

Note: Risk surveys created in Hyperproof must begin with a section.

Adding questions to a risk survey

Risk surveys can be edited in Hyperproof or outside of Hyperproof via a CSV file. The steps below explain how to add questions to a risk survey directly in Hyperproof.

Tip: If you are already in the survey, skip to Step 6.

  1. From the left menu, select Assessments.

  2. Select the Risk surveys tab.

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  3. Select the survey you want to edit.

  4. In the right pane, click View survey.

  5. Click Edit.

  6. Click New, then select Question.

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    The Add question window opens.

  7. Below ID, enter a question ID.

  8. Below Question, enter the question.

  9. From the Type drop-down menu, select a question type:

    • Single-select - A drop-down list of values where only one value can be selected.

    • Multi-select - A drop-down list of values where multiple values can be selected.

    • Single-select with explanation - Same as single-select, but with space for optional free text.

    • Multi-select with explanation - Same as multi-select, but with space for optional free text.

    • Open text - Free-form questions that allow the respondent to answer in an open-text format.

    • Proof upload - The only required answer is an attachment (of proof).

  10. Click Create.

    The question is created and added to the survey.

  11. Click Save.

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    Repeat steps 6 - 11 as needed.

Using gating (conditional) questions

Hyperproof surveys support gating (conditional) questions. For more information, refer Using gating questions in a survey. Note that gating questions can only be used with single-select and single-select with explanation question types.

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