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Hi all

 

I have a VERY long survey with approx. 500+ questions. Don’t panic - the respondent will only see a fraction of them because the flow logic will guide them through based on their responses 😉

 

However, I need to change all the question labels. I’ve tried with ‘Search and Replace’ but it doesn’t change question labels, only text in the questions themselves. Is there a quicker method to replace the question labels without needing to either edit them one at a time or export to Word and use ‘Find and Replace’ in Word? As you might imagine, I’m not too keen on manually changing them...

 

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

UPDATE: It seems that Block labels are not picked up in Word if one uses the ‘Find and Replace’ function, so even in word you end up having to manually edit them.

​@Mangi,

You can write a script that uses the Qualtrics Survey API to automate getting questions and then updates the question labels.

​@Mangi,

You can write a script that uses the Qualtrics Survey API to automate getting questions and then updates the question labels.

Hi ​@TomG 

 

Thanks for the response! I actually figured out a work-around. By downloading the QSF file, I was able to edit the code (very carefully!!) in Word using the ‘Find and Replace’ function there (which I found far less resource-intensive than doing it via the Qualtrics online platform), save it as a TXT file and then just change the file extension of the TXT to QSF and upload the modified file. It has been the fastest way to get it done and tso far] hasn’t resulted in any misbehaviour of the forms.

 

As an additional note, I found that the ‘Search and Replace’ function in Qualtrics modified the formatting of my forms as well (changing font sizes, font colours, making font strikethrough). I don’t know if it had something to do with the length of the forms and the memory resource use as a result but it made using the function no longer an option. It also seemed unable to detect words for replacement which were either italicised or captialised (e.g. it would detect and replace ‘the’ but not ‘The’ or ‘the’). Previous times I’d used it, this detection thing was not an issue but this time it was. 🤷

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