--- title: "Testing Forsta Plus (Confirmit) surveys" description: "SurveyTester reads Forsta Plus (Confirmit) surveys natively: grids, 3D grids, carousels, sliders, rankings, card sorts, searchable lists and more." url: https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/testing-confirmit/ language: en type: article audiences: ["Project Managers", "Survey Authors", "Survey Testers"] published: 2026-11-01 updated: 2026-11-01 tags: ["confirmit", "forsta", "forsta plus", "survey system", "supported platforms", "grid", "3d grid", "carousel", "ranking", "card sort", "maxdiff"] --- # Testing Forsta Plus (Confirmit) surveys _Test Surveys ยท SurveyTester Academy_ Forsta Plus - formerly Confirmit, and still known by that name in many research teams - is a dedicated survey system in SurveyTester. A project set to **ConfirmIt** (or to **Automatic**) recognises a Forsta Plus survey the moment the browser extension opens it: every page with its questions, answer options, grid rows and scales and text fields, the error messages and the end page. From there everything else in SurveyTester works as usual - Auto Answer, Auto Complete, SurveyBots, test cases, issues and the Pages & Routing overview. ## What a Forsta Plus survey looks like to a tester A Forsta Plus survey link contains `/wix/` (for example `https:///wix/p.aspx`). The respondent answers the questions on a page, clicks **Next** and the server sends the next page. Before it moves on, Forsta Plus checks the answers and shows an error message at the question - or at the grid row - that is not answered correctly. Current Forsta Plus surveys use the responsive renderer: the same question can appear as a classic table, as a row of buttons, as a carousel that shows one item at a time, or as an accordion, depending on the question's layout and the screen size. ![Placeholder: screenshot of a Forsta Plus (Confirmit) page with a carousel grid question and the Next button, the SurveyTester bar on top](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/_img/test-surveys/testing-confirmit/en/confirmit-survey-page.png "w=44rem | A Forsta Plus page under test") ## Why this is hard to test without SurveyTester - **Every question exists twice.** The responsive renderer puts a phone and a desktop version of each question into the page and only shows one of them. SurveyTester reads the question once, so nothing is recorded twice. - **Buttons instead of form fields.** Rating scales, star ratings, carousels and card sorts are drawn as buttons or draggable cards. SurveyTester operates them the way a respondent would. - **Rules in the question.** Exclusive answers, inactive answers, number ranges and "Don't know" or "Prefer not to answer" boxes belong to the question. SurveyTester reads them, answers within them and never picks an answer that is switched off. - **Several scales on one row.** A 3D grid asks, for example, importance and satisfaction for the same list. SurveyTester records each scale on its own and answers every one of them. ## Supported question types | Forsta Plus question type | How SurveyTester records it | |---|---| | Single choice, also as a dropdown | One option is chosen. | | Single choice as a rating scale, star rating, grid bars or thumbs | One scale point is chosen. | | Single choice as a slider | The slider is set to one value. | | Multiple choice, with exclusive options | Several options are ticked; an exclusive option is ticked alone. | | Options with an "Other, please specify" box | The option and its text box are recorded together. | | Inactive (switched-off) answers | Recorded, but never chosen. | | Grid, single or multiple answers per row | Every row is answered. | | Grid with answer buttons, dropdowns, grid bars or stars | Every row gets one button, dropdown entry or number of stars. | | Accordion grid | The rows are answered one after the other in the accordion. | | Carousel grid (one row at a time; single, multiple, stars or bars) | Every row is answered on its slide, then the carousel moves on. | | 3D grid (several scales or number columns per row) | Every scale and every number column is answered for every row. | | Slider grid, also with opposite labels on both ends | Every slider is set to a value on its scale. | | Number, also with a slider | A number within the allowed range is entered. | | Number list (several numbers in one question) | Every item gets a number. | | Open text and e-mail | A fitting text or an e-mail address is entered. | | Several text boxes in one question (for example unaided brand lists) | The boxes are filled. | | "Don't know" or "Prefer not to answer" box under a question | Recorded together with the question it belongs to. | | Ranking (click items in order) | Every item gets a different rank. | | Rank by numbers | Every item gets a different rank number. | | Drag-and-drop ranking | The items are dragged into an order. | | Card sort (drag cards into groups) | Every card is dragged into a group. | | MaxDiff (best-worst grid) | One best and one worst item are chosen in each task. | | Dropdown hierarchy (for example brand, then model) | Every level of the cascade gets an entry. | | Searchable list (single or multiple) | A search term is typed and one or more entries are chosen from the list. | | Text-only pages | Recorded as information pages with nothing to answer. | ## Errors and end page - **Error messages.** When Forsta Plus refuses to continue, its error text is stored as the error of the question - and of the grid row it marks. - **End page.** The closing page is recorded as the last step of the run. Complete, screenout and quota outcomes are configured as for any other survey system, with survey end page identifiers on the project. See [Survey end pages](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/survey-end-pages). ## Step by step 1. **Create the project.** Choose **ConfirmIt** as the survey system, or leave it at **Automatic** - the survey is recognised either way. Paste the survey link (the live link or a test link). 2. **Start a test run** from the project with the SurveyTester browser extension, or let SurveyBots run the survey. The SurveyTester bar appears above it, and the first page is recorded as step 1. 3. **Answer the survey** by hand, or press **Auto Answer** and **Auto Next** to let SurveyTester fill the page and move on. Each page creates the next step. 4. **Check the result** on the Pages & Routing page: every page appears with its questions, every question with its answer options, rows and scales. ![Placeholder: screenshot of the Pages & Routing page of a Forsta Plus project listing a grid question with its rows and scale points, a 3D grid with two scales and a ranking question](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/_img/test-surveys/testing-confirmit/en/confirmit-pages-routing.png "w=44rem | The Forsta Plus pages and questions as SurveyTester records them") ## Good to know - **Question names.** SurveyTester uses the question IDs from the Forsta Plus questionnaire (for example `q1` or `s3`), so the names in SurveyTester match your questionnaire and the data. - **MaxDiff checks.** MaxDiff tasks recorded in Forsta Plus surveys can be checked for balance. See [Testing MaxDiff questions](https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/pages-and-routing/testing-maxdiff-questions). - **Custom questions.** Questions built as custom components with their own scripts may look very different from the standard Forsta Plus questions. SurveyTester records their fields, but may not be able to answer them automatically. If you find a page that SurveyTester does not read correctly, please send it to us.