I'd love to be able to copy a question or set of questions
Sometimes I need to create a set of the same question multiple times within the same process/application. For instance, I might need an option to add an address for a second parent/guardian and I don't want to have to create all the address fields again. I'd rather just duplicate the previous group and edit the heading.
A similar solution might be to create a question bank of all fields that have been created within the instance and then be able to select any I'd like to add.
Lauren Peña
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Samantha Cribbs
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This would be great!! We require 3 recommendations in UA and it would have been so nice just to be able to create once and copy!
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Molly Gelinas commented
I echo everyone else's comments and would add - creating tables is very time-consuming. Having the ability to copy a table and lightly edit it (which we often need to do when collecting data on trends based on different factors) would be so helpful.
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Michelle Collins
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I like this idea too. It would ensure consistency across applications. I often forget the exact wording used between one application and another and this would make the Copy Function even more efficient.
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Michael Costa commented
My Organizations Program Officer often runs into this issue when creating multiple detailed branching questions or graphs. It would be extremely helpful to copy questions that only need to be slightly edited throughout the form
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Robertson Adams commented
TLDR: I'd like to be able to reuse a snippet of a form on another form, perhaps from a library of snippets.
Let's say in 2023 I built one great form and copied it 20 times so that all my forms built in 2023 used the best practice of sharing their fields (variables). Now in 2024 I have a new group of fields - budget or demographic fields that I need to add.
After developing a fancy new table on one application form, the admin should be able to save it to a library of snippets and then it should be possible to insert that into another form. Hopefully the variables are conserved and shared across the forms to which the snippet has been added. Bonus points if the snippet can later be edited in a library and then those edits are populated to all the forms in which the snippet was appended.
Without this feature, my options are poor for reusing forms. I would modify each of the 20 forms to add the fields. None of those fields are linked so they create
for report-building tasks later. And database sorting becomes less efficient.Reusing a block of code seems easy to a non-developer. Sorry if this is a big pain!