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1 month 2 weeks ago #258471 by stefan_o
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I would like to merge multiple surveys into a single survey (due to limitations of LimeSurvey). I tried to export them as txt/csv file, copied the questions from survey B to the end of survey A, imported it, but all I see are the questions of survey A. I cannot figure out why. I even tried copying the questions to the middle: Still only the questions from survey A

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1 month 2 weeks ago #258472 by DenisChenu
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I really don't understand what you try to do.

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1 month 2 weeks ago #258473 by stefan_o
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There are multiple (quite long) surveys. Because of the issue that you cannot load a state from another survey, I would like to create one survey of the multiple surveys, without manually re-doing everything, just copy/paste.

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1 month 2 weeks ago #258487 by Joffm
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Hm,
I do not see an issue merging two surveys this way.
Did you test with two small dummy surveys?
Did you empty the first two columns?

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1 month 2 weeks ago #258496 by stefan_o
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I cleared the first two columns, same result. I created two dummy surveys, merged them, same result. After I changed the name of the questions in the second survey it worked.
But here's the thing: In the existing survey I would like to merge the names are different. I have no idea what else is supposed to be unique in what range (answer options always seem to have the same name). Unfortunately LimeSurvey doesn't show any error when importing, it's always successful, no matter how many questions are lost.

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1 month 2 weeks ago - 1 month 2 weeks ago #258499 by Joffm
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Can you provide the two lss exports?

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1 month 2 weeks ago #258500 by stefan_o
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I'll check with the authors of the surveys

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1 month 1 week ago #258525 by DenisChenu
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I still don't understand ?
How do you merge this surveys ? With TXT export ?
 

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