How to share options across multiple questions

When building a survey with multiple choice-based questions (like radio groups or dropdowns), you may find yourself repeatedly entering the same list of answer options (e.g., "Yes", "No", "Maybe" or frequency scales like "Daily", "Weekly", "Monthly").

Instead of typing these out every time, you can create a shared option list and reuse it across multiple questions.

Step 1: Create and mark options as shared

First, create a question and add the answer options you want to share.

Once your options are added, look for the Make options shared field in the question's configuration pane.

Locate the 'Make options shared' field in the question settings.

Step 2: Name your shared options

To save the options to the library, you must give the shared option group a descriptive name. This will make it easy to identify later.

Enter a name for your shared options, such as 'shared frequency'.

Step 3: Reuse the shared options

Now that your options are saved, you can apply them to other questions.

Select another choice-based question where you want to reuse the options. In the question's configuration pane, locate the Use Shared dropdown and select the name of the option group you just created.

Select your named option group from the 'Use Shared' dropdown to instantly apply the options to the new question.

NOTE

When you link a question to a shared option group, any future changes made to the shared options will automatically update across all questions using that group.