Cloning a Survey


Sometimes it may be desirable to recycle a survey over and over again. To provide this functionality, eSurvey offers the ability to clone a survey. Any user may clone a survey from the Survey List screen. To clone a draft survey, a user would first go to the Survey List screen by clicking on View->Draft Survey from the main navigation bar. Then, by clicking on the clone action button (two sheets of paper icon) next to the desired survey, the screen will refresh and alert the user that the survey has been cloned. Although this example demonstrates the cloning of a Draft survey, the clone functionality will work on surveys of any type (Draft, Waiting, Running, or Completed).

Cloned surveys are never exact replicas of the original. Certain changes are made for the convenience of the user. These changes include the following:

  • The name of a cloned survey will be altered so that it begins with the phrase 'Copy of'. For example, cloning a survey named 'My Survey' will produce a survey named 'Copy of My Survey'. This allows users to easily distinguish between the original and cloned survey.
  • The start and end dates for which the cloned survey is set to run will default to the current date.
  • The cloned survey's status is always set to Draft. This ensures that a cloned survey is never accidentally made available to the world. This also means that if a user has cloned a survey under a different tab, like Running, the user will have to go under the Drafts tab to find the cloned survey.
  • A cloned survey will not inherit any responses or statistics associated with the original. You can verify this by viewing cloned survey's Reports & Statistics screen, which will show zero respondents.

A cloned survey will retain all of the questions, instructions, etc. of the original survey. Once a survey has been cloned, a user can quickly make any modifications or tweaks necessary before launching the survey.


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