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Hello,
I'm quite new to Qualtrics and trying to work out whether it's possible to edit blocks/questions that are in the library.
We are building a survey that will be used throughout the year. However, at the different times of the year, the answer/block that students get on answering the same question will be slightly different depending on the time of year (i.e. the question remains the same throughout the year, but the 'answer' they get changes depending on what events are going on in the year.)
I want to prebuild the answers into the library, so that they don't have to be recreated from scratch all the time. However, there may be small changes that need to be made every now and then to the answers. Can these changes be made in the library?
Otherwise, it seems we have to edit the 'answer' in the survey itself and then save that new answer to the library, while removing the previous answer? This might get a bit fiddly.
Or, would anyone have any other ideas/suggestions for how best to manage this?

Thank you,
Maria

Hi marmat ,
I haven't used the Question Library feature much, but I don't know of any way to edit a version of a question that is saved to a Qualtrics Library. It seems like a missed opportunity.
I don't know of a good workaround beyond what you described. Are you using the same survey throughout the year, or is this same question/block used in different surveys/projects? If you're using a single survey then my only additional recommendation would be to use display logic on the answers you're hiding, instead of deleting them, so you don't lose the data and can add them back in at a later point if you need to.

Hi marmat ,
Yes, You can edit library survey. However, if you want to use same survey questions throughout the year. Why don't you create a project and call library survey as "reference" in survey flow. This will increase re-usability of your library survey. Checkout below link for more help:
https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-flow/advanced-elements/reference-surveys/

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/53513#Comment_53513Hi marmat ,
Yes, You can edit library survey. However, if you want to use same survey questions throughout the year. Why don't you create a project and call library survey as "reference" in survey flow. This will increase re-usability of your library survey. Checkout below link for more help:
https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-flow/advanced-elements/reference-surveys/

Thank you MatthewM and dipeshsingh for your tips... I will try out your suggestions.

So how do you actually edit an existing library question? Should be easy, yet can’t figure it out. And if I edit the question, will it auto-update all instances where it’s been used in surveys?

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