You can tailor the wording of a survey question for specific projects.

There are three methods for creating different versions of a survey:
- Bespoke Questions (uses several surveys)
- Reusable Questions (uses several surveys)
- Core Questions using Waves (uses a single survey)

How to choose the method to use

We recommend the Core Questions using Waves method as it gives you the most analytical capabilities

	Core Questions using Waves	Reusable Questions	Bespoke Questions
Ability to view results from a single version of the survey
Using survey analytics, outcome charts, progress panels and Progress Boards	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ability to aggregate results from across the different versions of the survey
Distribution of Answers	Yes	Yes	No
Progress Panel	Yes	Yes	No
Album-level verdicts (where different projects use different versions of the survey)	Yes	No	No
Outcome Charts	Yes	No	No
Ability to connect results from across the different versions of the survey (e.g. a pre and post survey)
Distance Travelled	Yes	Yes	No
Distribution over Time	Yes	Yes	No

Summary of the methods

A key factor to determine which approach is best for you is: do you want to be able to aggregate results and connect results from across the different versions of the survey, in spite of the differences in questions across each version?

If the answer is Yes, use the Core Questions using Waves or Reusable Questions methods.

Types of question to tailor	Method(s) you can use	For the Multiple Choice questions: can Distance Travelled be automatically aggregated and analysed across the projects?
Field based questions only	Bespoke Questions or Waves	N/A
Multiple Choice questions only	Waves	Yes
Multiple Choice questions only	Bespoke	No
Both Field and Metric based questions	Bespoke or Waves	No

With the Bespoke Questions method

For sections and text, date, time or file upload questions

If each project will have its own version of a question, each project will need to have its own copy of the survey.

Copy your original survey
Add the copied version to the specific project(s) that you want to receive this tailored version of a question
Go to the Manage Fields page and edit the question’s wording for each version of the survey

For Multiple Choice questions

Turn on Edit Mode for the survey
Press Edit next to the Multiple Choice question you want to tailor
A popup launches
Select Only on this survey rather than “All”
In the Name field: adjust the wording of the question and press Save.
1. But if the wording you want to use for the question is too long. Come up with an abbreviated version of the question name and then follow these steps to add custom wording to this question

With the Core Questions using Waves method

Refer to Waves - manage longitudinal surveys for a detailed explanation

Check that there is at least one Wave on each project that you want to tailor the question for. If there isn’t a Wave, create one. If there isn’t a spare wave, create one. (How to create a Wave)
Go to the Personalised Wording page of the survey and follow the steps in this article which are outlined below:
1. Select the project you want to tailor the question for
2. Select the wave you want to save the tailored wording to
3. Select the question you want to tailor
4. Choose the Audience you want the tailoring to be applied to (typically this is Respondents or Members of the Public)
5. Tailor the question for that Audience and press Save to close the popup

Tailor the wording of a survey question for specific projects