# Survey library and question design

How to find, rename, edit and delete surveys in the Surveys library, and how to reuse saved surveys in new studies and in Quick Research.

In SCL, a survey is a saved question or price design that you can reuse; your questions are answered by the synthetic consumers (personas) in a population. Every survey you save is collected in the **Surveys** library: multiple-choice question sets, plus the settings you enter for Price Analysis (WTP), Feature Price Impact, Priority Ranking (MaxDiff) and Competitive Analysis (Conjoint), known as price surveys. Creating, editing, renaming and deleting surveys costs no credits; credits are spent when a study that uses the survey runs.

## The Surveys library

Open **LIBRARY** › **Surveys** in the sidebar. Surveys are listed as cards, 20 per page. Each card shows the survey's name, its type (**Survey MCQ**, **Price WTP**, **Feature Value**, **Priority MaxDiff** or **Competition Conjoint**), the number of questions, features or prices ("N question", "N feature" or "N price") and its date. For surveys edited in the library, the date reads "… edited". When you are not searching and **All** is selected, the newest card shows the **LATEST** badge.

To find a survey, use:

- **Search box:** Searches names and descriptions, and for price surveys also the product name and brand. You can also search by method name ("maxdiff", "price", "competitive", "multiple choice"). Turkish special characters are matched as plain letters (ş as s, ı as i); if you type several words, only surveys that contain all of them are listed.
- **Survey date:** **All time**, **Last 7 days**, **Last 30 days** or **Custom range**.
- **Study type:** Next to the **All** chip, a chip appears for each type that has at least one survey matching the search and the date filter; the chip shows the number of surveys.

If nothing matches, click **Clear search and filters**.

> [!NOTE]
> In organisation accounts, members see only the surveys they created themselves, while the admin sees every survey in the organisation. If a colleague's survey is missing from your list, contact your organisation admin.

## Creating a new survey

You create surveys in a study's design step; the **Surveys** page has no button for creating one.

1. Click **New Research**.
2. Choose a vertical and a method.
3. In the population step, select an existing population or create a new one.
4. In the design step, enter your questions or price settings. You can write while the population is being prepared in the background; **Next Step** becomes available once the population is ready.
5. Complete the design step and move on to the next step. The survey is saved and added to the **Surveys** library.

For the full flow, see [Starting a new study](/en/docs/research/new-study).

## Writing multiple-choice questions

You write multiple-choice questions in the design step that opens from the **Survey** card in General Research or the **Multiple Choice** card in Fashion. Question types, images, AI suggestions, conditional questions, limits and tips for writing good questions are covered in [Multiple-Choice Survey](/en/docs/research/multiple-choice-survey). In this step, if you pick a survey under **Import from Saved Survey** and click **Import**, its questions are copied to the end of the list together with their images and conditions; changes you make to the copy do not affect the survey in the library. The **Edit Survey** page in the library, by contrast, has no **Koşul** (Condition) setting and no AI suggestions; to use them, import the survey into the design step of a new study.

## Price surveys

The product, price, feature and competitor settings you enter in the design step of Price Analysis, Feature Price Impact, Priority Ranking and Competitive Analysis are saved as a price survey. Feature Price Impact appears as **Feature Value Analysis** on the design and report screens, and with the **Feature Value** badge in the library.

If you have a saved survey of the same type, the design step of these methods shows the **Select from Saved Surveys** panel. When you select a survey, its settings are loaded into the form and the survey appears as **Selected survey**; to undo this, click **Remove selection**. If you change any field after loading, the selection is cleared.

| Method | Setting | Limit |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price Analysis, Feature Price Impact, Competitive Analysis | Price ladder: lowest price, highest price and step | Between 3 and 16 price points |
| Feature Price Impact | Features to test | Between 1 and 5 |
| Priority Ranking | Features | At least 4 |
| Competitive Analysis | Competitors | Between 1 and 5 |

The number of price points depends on the price range and the step: from ₺100 to ₺200 in ₺25 steps gives 5 price points (100, 125, 150, 175, 200). Each extra price point and feature increases the credits used by a study that runs the survey: if you run this survey in Price Analysis with 100 personas, it uses 5 price points × 100 personas = 500 credits. Details are on the method pages: [Price Analysis (WTP)](/en/docs/research/price-analysis), [Feature Price Impact](/en/docs/research/feature-price-impact), [Priority Ranking (MaxDiff)](/en/docs/research/priority-ranking), [Competitive Analysis (Conjoint)](/en/docs/research/competitive-analysis).

Clicking a price survey's card in the library opens the **Edit Survey** page; change the fields and click **Update**. Price surveys saved from a study are named after the product with "Pricing Survey" appended (for example "Premium Coffee Pricing Survey"). Rename these surveys so you can tell them apart in the library.

## Editing a saved survey

1. Click the card, or choose **Edit** from the card's three-dot menu. The **Edit Survey** page opens.
2. Change the title, the **Description** field and the questions. To add a question, click **Add Question**.
3. Click **Update Survey**.
4. In the dialog titled **The survey will be updated**, choose **Yes, update**.

In this dialog, **No** takes you back to editing and **Discard changes** leaves without saving. After saving, you return to the **Surveys** page and the card moves to the top of the list. If you click **Cancel** without saving your changes, the **Unsaved changes** dialog opens; choose **Keep editing** or **Discard changes**. The same dialogs appear for price surveys.

This page has no **Koşul** setting and no AI suggestions; existing conditions are kept but not shown. To change a survey with conditions, import it into the design step of a new study and edit it there.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Editing in the library changes the survey itself and saves all of its questions again; importing creates a copy. In the reports of studies that used the survey earlier, the question texts change, and the persona answers saved for those questions may be deleted. To change a survey that has already been used, make a copy with **Import from Saved Survey** in a new study's design step and edit the copy.

## Renaming and deleting

To rename a survey:

1. Choose **Rename** from the card's three-dot menu.
2. Type the new name in the **Survey name** field (up to 255 characters).
3. Click **Save**.

Renaming does not change the card's "edited" date.

To delete a survey:

1. Choose **Delete** from the card's three-dot menu.
2. In the **Are you sure?** dialog, click **Delete** again.

> [!WARNING]
> A deleted survey cannot be restored. Studies that use the survey are not deleted, but their link to the survey is broken, and the persona answers saved for the survey may also be deleted. The reports and downloadable files of those studies may then be incomplete.

## Using a survey in Quick Research

You can run a saved survey without going through the design steps:

1. Open **Quick Research** in the sidebar.
2. In the **Research Type** field, choose the vertical. This field selects the vertical, not the method.
3. Select a population in the **Population** field.
4. Select the saved survey in the **Survey Selection** field.
5. Click **Start**.

The survey is not copied; it is linked to the new study as it is. Saved surveys cannot be run in Ad Testing. For details, see [Quick Research](/en/docs/research/quick-research).

## Related pages

- [Multiple-Choice Survey](/en/docs/research/multiple-choice-survey)
- [Quick Research](/en/docs/research/quick-research)
- [Starting a new study](/en/docs/research/new-study)
- [Price Analysis (WTP)](/en/docs/research/price-analysis)
- [Credits](/en/docs/account/credits)