Option Collections

Option Collections are reusable sets of answer options — the cards, items, or choices a respondent picks from — that you define once and reuse across multiple scenes. They keep option lists consistent across a study and save you from re-typing the same set repeatedly.

What this step is for

Many studies ask about the same set of things in more than one place — the same competitor brands, the same feature list, the same channels. An option collection lets you maintain that list in one place and apply it wherever it’s needed, so it stays consistent everywhere and is trivial to update.

When to use one

• Repeated option sets. The same brands, features, or channels appear in several scenes.
• Lists you’ll revise. Maintaining the set once means an edit propagates everywhere it’s used, instead of hunting through individual scenes.
• Consistency matters. Keeping wording and ordering identical across scenes makes results cleaner to compare and read.

This step is optional — a study with no repeated option sets doesn’t need collections.

How to do it

1. Open Option Collections.
2. Create a collection and give it a clear name (e.g. Competitor brands, Key features).
3. Add the options to the collection.
4. In Scenes & Questions, apply the collection to a scene’s options instead of entering them by hand.

Best practices

• Name collections by what they contain, so they’re easy to pick from later (Competitor brands, not List 1).
• Keep each collection single-purpose. One list of brands, one list of features — not a mixed bag.
• Curate the set carefully, since it feeds several scenes: consistent wording, sensible ordering, no near-duplicates.

Tips

• Use collections for anything you might reword later — a single update beats editing many scenes.
• Consistent option sets across scenes also make the dashboard easier to read, because the same labels line up.

Where to go next

• Scenes & Questions — apply collections to scene options.
• Interaction types — which interactions use option lists.