Renumbering the internal Question ID

Try this, you can do this from tools’ auto number questions module (refer below screenshot). But can do this in sequential order only, you cannot change it manually.

Hi @ArunDubey I know about auto-numbering Question Numbers, but I'm talking about the internal Question ID.

I have highlighted 3rd option for internal ID. when you click on 3rd option and then apply it. It will update the internal ID. Please refer below link and ss.

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-tools/auto-number-questions/

Thanks @ArunDubey, I tried, but this renumbers the Question Number (Q#) to match the Internal ID numbering (QID#). It doesn't reset the Internal ID of my questions. Because I made some questions in the beginning of my survey later in the process, I now have for example QID133 for question 1, and so on. So I just want the internal ID to match their position in the survey.

@Tom_1842, I tried putting both blocks and questions in my library, then adding them to an empty survey. All 3 methods failed:

1. When I add the bloks I get crasy Question IDs with 10 numbers.
2. When I add the questions separatedly, it does reset the QID but it always starts from QID2 because Qualtrics always add a first MC question which is QID1.
3. When I copy the questions from an existing survey, Qualtrics just carries over the internal QID.

I didn't try the fourth method, but I want to make sure I didn't do something wrong in the others. Do you have the same result?

On my end, here is what I am seeing after autonumbering the imported questions with their internal QID:

• Import from Library --> Personal Library --> Insert individual questions
  • Produces Internal QIDs that are incremented by 1 from the last existing QID in current survey
• Import from Library --> Personal Library --> Insert block --> Insert as copy
  • Produces Internal QIDs that have 10 digits
• Import from Library --> Personal Library --> Select a Survey saved to Library --> Insert individual questions
  • Produces Internal QIDs that are incremented by 1 from the last existing QID in current survey
• Import from Library --> Personal Library --> Select a Survey saved to Library --> Insert Entire Survey
  • Produces Internal QIDs that have 10 digits
• Import from Library --> Copy from Existing Survey --> Insert individual questions
  • Produces Internal QIDs that are incremented by 1 from the last existing QID in current survey
• Import from Library --> Copy from Existing Survey --> Insert Entire Survey
  • Produces Internal QIDs that have 10 digits

So I am only seeing the really high QIDs when I import an entire survey or block. Adding individual questions from a library or existing survey looks to increment the internal QID by 1 from the last existing QID. Fortunately, you are able to select multiple questions at once when importing individual questions.

I believe there will always be a Multiple Choice placeholder for QID1 in a new survey. I recommend manually configuring this question and then importing as individual questions for the rest.

Thanks for taking a look @Tom_1842. I'm having the same experience. I also though of manually configuring the MC placeholder question and then importing as individual questions for the rest.

That works, but the problem is that I have 100+ questions and that they are not in sequential order in my library because I have text for labels instead of Q1, Q2, etc. So selecting all of them when importing individual questions won't work.

I guess the only way would be to auto-numbering all my questions, thus losing my labels, then re-importing them into my library, then importing them in a new survey except for the 1st one, which I manually change by editing the placeholder MC.

Still, all this means that I can never import blocks or entire surveys. It's not just that I will end up with crazy QIDs, but they also won't match with my Custom CSS.

I agree with Jonannes that the disconnect between Q numbers visible/editable and internal is annoying, but more annoying is the creation of the crazy “10-digit QID numbers” which is upsetting when exporting to JSON for consumption in other systems… it would be ‘nice’ if the Import from Library block didn’t do this, but at least there is a way around it - copy/insert one Q at a time...