How do I associated custom metadata with a SurveyMonkey survey?

Question

I would like to configure my SurveyMonkey account so that when I create a new survey I am required to assign the new survey to one of an editable (by me) list of 'groups'. I would then like to aggregate reports based on survey 'group'.

SurveyMonkey seems to have a fixed list of 'categories', respondent 'metadata', and per-response 'custom variables', but I'm not seeing any kind of mixed metadata or custom variables at the level of a survey.

Does such a thing exist or is there a common workaround to achieve this?

Answer 1

There isn't currently a way to tag surveys. That would be a nice feature to have.

One possible workaround (although not ideal) is to set the Survey nickname or put an ID in the Survey title you can filter by when searching for surveys.

Another one is to set a custom variable on the Survey. Although these are normally meant as GET parameters when taking the Survey, you can use it to categorize Surveys as well.

One last thing is to add a question and use advanced branching if necessary to make sure it's always hidden to the user, and categorize based on that.

I do agree that a way to tag surveys directly, and then filter surveys based on a tag would be very useful but there is no current way to do that (as far as I'm aware)..