Hi all,

I read some things about adding multiple questions at once. From what I understood, this is not possible. What could work is the manipulation of the LSS backup file - I took a look at it but it seems to be very complex.

What I actually need is to ask 1 out of a few hundred questions - so I thought to add all questions at once to one category and make Limesurvey pick one of them randomly in every survey. Naturally, I don't want to copy all of these questions manually into the interface.

Is there an easy way to do this? Or at least an explanation about the structure of backup files?
Thanks in advance
Edit: What I forgot to mention is that I just need to change the question - everything else (categories etc.) is the same for all of them.

LimeSurvey doesn't have a loop question type. Jelo insisted a lot about how useful would be such a feature, so it's highly possible will offer a way to do it in the future.

For now, I see 2 different solutions to your problem:

1. Use the "copy question functionality". It will copy the whole question ("categories", etc), and then you'll just have to edit the question text

2. If you have some coding/script skills, you can also work directly on the lss files. Create a survey with 3 or 4 of the 100 questions, then export the survey as a lss archive. It's indeed an XML file that you can open with any editor. Then, you can write a script (or even an excel macro) to create the 100 questions, and directly edit the question text in the file.

Depending on your coding skills, 2 can be faster than 1. Whatever: it will be funnier, and you'll can reuse those script for further surveys.

Thank you!
Yes, I think I can do option with a friend - however, is there some sort of documentation of the structure of LSS files? It puzzles me, I don't really understand some things like how IDs are assigned.

You can modify the survey ID in the XML file and , if that ID does not already exist, it will be used. Otherwise a random ID will be assigned on import.

Group, question, sub-question and answer IDs cannot be assigned in the XML file. They are assigned sequentially on import.

I don't know if this document is up to date, but it could still help you:
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Tab_Separated_...urvey_structure#Tips

Here is the function that decodes the XML inside the lss file, that could help you too:
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/ma...elper.php#L792-L1528