Reusing Survey Questions

Once you've built a good set of survey questions, you rarely want to rebuild it from scratch. Signplanr gives you several ways to reuse questions, plus a full version history to fall back on. These tools live on the Survey questions tab of a sign type, in the Tools menu / actions.

Clone to another sign type

Copy an entire question set onto a different sign type:

1. Open the source sign type's Survey questions tab.
2. From the Tools menu, choose to Clone the question set to another sign type.
3. Pick the target sign type and choose whether to Replace the target's questions or Append to them.

Cloned questions get fresh internal keys, and any conditional references between them are remapped automatically so the logic still works on the target.

Question blocks

Question blocks are reusable, named groups of questions you can drop into any sign type. Any organisation member can author a block.

• Save a block — select the questions you want and save them as a named block.
• Insert a block — add a saved block into any sign type. Inserting expands the block with fresh keys, so it won't clash with existing questions.

JSON import and export

You can move a question set in and out as a file:

• Export the question set to a JSON file — useful for backups or sharing.
• Import a JSON file. Imports are validated, and you choose whether to replace or append the existing questions.

Version history and restore

Every time you save, a new version is written. The History tab lists versions newest-first with a structural diff showing what changed field-by-field.

To go back to an earlier set:

1. Open the History tab.
2. Find the version you want.
3. Choose Restore version N.

Restoring never overwrites your history — it appends a new version that's identical to the old one. Your full timeline stays intact.

Related

• Building survey questions
• Conditional survey logic