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  <title>SurveyTester Academy – Latest articles</title>
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  <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
  <author><name>SurveyTester</name></author>
  <entry>
    <title>Setting up automatic issue detection per project type</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/automatic-issue-detection-settings/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/automatic-issue-detection-settings/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Decide which automatic checks your company runs, switch them per project type, and set the classification values each finding gets when it becomes an issue.</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/><category term="Team Management"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Sandbox: find a flawed MaxDiff design and confirm the fix</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/sandbox/maxdiff-design-check/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/sandbox/maxdiff-design-check/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Try the MaxDiff balance check on two demo surveys: run SurveyBots on a flawed design, set a milestone, switch to the corrected design and compare.</summary>
    <category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Authors"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Sandbox: check how a long brand list is spread over respondents</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/sandbox/subset-item-exposure/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/sandbox/subset-item-exposure/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Try the item exposure check on a demo survey that shows 25 of 200 brands per respondent: run SurveyBots and see SurveyTester judge the draw.</summary>
    <category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Authors"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Sandbox: re-check fixed issues with &quot;What's next&quot;</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/sandbox/whats-next-recheck/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/sandbox/whats-next-recheck/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-18T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Walk through the full fix-and-retest loop on a demo survey: findings and manual issues, a corrected script, automatic re-checks and your final decision.</summary>
    <category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="Project Managers"/><category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Automatic re-check of fixed issues</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/issues/automatic-recheck-of-fixed-issues/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/issues/automatic-recheck-of-fixed-issues/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-17T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Mark fixed issues for a re-check. SurveyTester tests them again on the next capture, tells you whether the problem is gone, and you confirm the result.</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Reason for closing and re-opening issues</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/issues/reason-for-closing-issues/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/issues/reason-for-closing-issues/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-16T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Make users enter a reason whenever an issue is closed or re-opened, per project type. The reason is kept in the issue history and shown in the issue list.</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/><category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Testers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Testing QuestionPro surveys</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/testing-questionpro/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/testing-questionpro/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-16T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-16T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>SurveyTester reads QuestionPro surveys natively: every question type is recognised, validation errors recorded, bots answer pricing, MaxDiff and conjoint.</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Authors"/><category term="Survey Testers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>AI Administration &amp; Usage Controls</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/ai-administration-usage-controls/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/ai-administration-usage-controls/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-08-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>The AI Administration &amp; Usage Controls feature allows administrators to manage the AI engines available within SurveyTester or add a custom AI Engine.…</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Deactivate a user for your company</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/deactivate-users/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/deactivate-users/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Take a user's access to one company away without deleting the account: roles are parked, the user stays active in other companies, and reactivation restores everything.</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Organizational information on the dashboard</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/organizational-information/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/organizational-information/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Give every role a text with what its users should know - contacts, conventions, links - and users see it as a dashboard block across all their companies.</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/><category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Testers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Market and language questions per project type</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/market-and-language-questions/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/market-and-language-questions/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Name the market and language questions once per project type; new projects pick them up from the first test run and fill markets and languages.</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/><category term="Project Managers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Project Search</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/general-queries/project-search/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/general-queries/project-search/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-03-27T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>You can locate projects in the project list using either keyword search or creation date filters .</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Authors"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Question expectations - what the programming must do</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/pages-and-routing/question-expectations/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/pages-and-routing/question-expectations/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>State per question what the survey must do - rotate, keep a fixed order, show items from an earlier question, draw a subset - and let every test run check it.</summary>
    <category term="Survey Authors"/><category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="Project Managers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Working with the questionnaire document</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/questionnaire-documents/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/questionnaire-documents/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Upload the Word, Excel or PDF questionnaire: SurveyTester reads it into a model, derives testcases and bots, verifies the programmed survey and compares its texts.</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Authors"/><category term="Survey Testers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Conditional testcase answers</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/conditional-testcase-answers/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/conditional-testcase-answers/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>A testcase can answer a question differently depending on the sample record or on earlier answers: condition columns with ALL, ANY and NONE groups, first match wins.</summary>
    <category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="Project Managers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Testcase answers that follow another question or the sample record</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/testcase-answers-from-questions-and-sample/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/testcase-answers-from-questions-and-sample/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Let a testcase question repeat the answer of an earlier question, and keep the sample record of a test run consistent with what the testcase answers.</summary>
    <category term="Survey Testers"/><category term="Project Managers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Backing up and restoring projects</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/project-backup-and-restore/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/project-backup-and-restore/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Create a backup on the Lifecycle page, manage files on the Project Backups page and restore it as original, replacement or copy, even on another server.</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Closing a project</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/closing-a-project/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/project-details/closing-a-project/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>Close a project after sign-off to freeze it: read-only for everyone, no new test runs, SurveyBots cancelled. Reopen it any time on the Lifecycle page.</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/><category term="Team Management"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Testing Zoho Survey questionnaires</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/testing-zoho-survey/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/test-surveys/testing-zoho-survey/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-15T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>SurveyTester reads Zoho Survey forms natively: pages, questions and options are recognised, display logic and validation errors recorded, bots answer the survey.</summary>
    <category term="Project Managers"/><category term="Survey Authors"/><category term="Survey Testers"/>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Setting up SurveyTester for your company: the administrator's checklist</title>
    <link href="https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/company-setup-checklist/"/>
    <id>https://www.surveytester.com/academy/en/company-admin-settings/company-setup-checklist/</id>
    <updated>2026-10-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <published>2026-10-14T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary>What an administrator sets up once before project teams start: roles and users, folders, project types, automatic checks, dictionary, AI engines and templates.</summary>
    <category term="SurveyTester Administrators"/><category term="Team Management"/>
  </entry>
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