Secondary Project Toolbox

The Secondary Project toolbox allows you to copy individual questions or complete folders containing several questions from another survey and into the currently open survey. To display the Secondary Project toolbox, right-click in the Toolbox header bar and check the Secondary Project box - . Note that surveys displayed in this toolbox will be displayed in Read Only mode.

Figure 1 - The Secondary Project toolbox

To copy a question or folder into the current survey:

1. Ensure the survey into which you wish to copy a question, is open in Authoring.
2. Open the Secondary Project toolbox (if it is not already visible).
3. Click the Survey, B.P. (Basic Panel), S.P. (Standard Panel) or P.P. (Professional Panel) button as appropriate, depending on the type of survey or panel the question you wish to copy is currently located in.

An overlay displaying all the surveys or panels available to you opens.

Note: When working with a survey that is linked to a Professional panel, the Panel will automatically open in the Secondary Project toolbox and you can drag-and-drop variables from the Panel to the survey. The variables dragged into the survey will automatically be set as visible panel variables (go to General for more information).

4. Find and select the survey from which you want to copy the question/folder, and click Use this survey.

The selected survey's Survey tree opens in the Secondary Project toolbox - .



Figure 2 - Example of the Secondary Project Survey tree

5. Copy questions and/or folders from the secondary project into the current survey by dragging them from the secondary project toolbox and dropping them into the Survey Tree toolbox at the appropriate place.

To view the Secondary Project objects, double-click on an object in the Secondary Project toolbox. This opens the object in the Question Details window. However, note that you cannot make and save changes to the Secondary Project objects here. If you wish to make changes to the secondary project, you must open that survey as the "Current" survey in Authoring.

Note: If the current survey and the secondary project use different languages, then when a question is copied into the current survey, its language fields will be empty.

When the Secondary Project toolbox is opened it will contain the last secondary project selected by the current user, wherever the user logs in. To remove a survey from the toolbox, click the Clear button.