Required questions block respondents from moving forward until they provide an answer. That validation keeps exports, quotas, and charts grounded in complete data instead of rows full of empty cells.
Turn on Required for a question
- Open your survey in the editor and select the question.
- In the right-hand panel, enable Required.
- Save or publish as usual; in the live form, people must answer before continuing past that step.
When to require answers—and when not to
Require questions that carry legal consent, routing, scoring, or core metrics you cannot analyze without a value.
Leave questions optional when they are nice-to-have context, long free text prompts, or sensitive topics where skipping is better than dropout. You can still collect partial journeys with skip logic and survey logic so only relevant items appear.
Pair required fields with clear expectations on the Survey introduction screen, and use Choice questions when a single mandatory pick is enough.
Related workflows
Set expectations before required fields with Survey introduction, combine mandatory picks with Choice questions, and export complete rows from How do I export survey data?.
