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To simplify the process of setting up a manually mapped combined survey, automatic mapping functionality is provided in SmartHub. The hub will suggest mappings for questions depending on the following criteria:
For Single, Open, Numeric, Multi and Date questions, the questions must be of the same type, they must have the same questionID, and Single and Multi questions must have the same answer list (same number of items and same codes).
For Grid, Open text list, Numeric list and Ranking questions, mapping will be performed at the field level (that is, for each answer). The questions must be of the same type, they must have the same questionID and Grid questions must have the same scale (same number of items and same codes). They can have different answer lists, but if so, only matching answers will be mapped. For example, for a grid q1 with items 1, 2, 3 in survey A and a grid q1 with items 1 and 3 in survey B, fields q1_1 and q1_3 will be mapped between the two surveys.
"Other - specify" questions will be mapped if the questions they belong to are mapped according to the rules above and they belong to the same answer list item.
Questions with reusable lists will only be mapped if the same reusable list is used across all the surveys (same list ID, same number of items, same codes etc.).
Note: The question and answer labels are not compared as the surveys may for example be in different languages, so the labels could well be different by design. You are therefore recommended to check all mappings before confirming them.