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Understand Reporting object short names used in Advanced Analytics

Short names are the identifiers UpMetrics uses to build the column headers for your Reporting data in Advanced Analytics. Knowing where to find them makes it much easier to pick the right column when you build a chart.

Before you start:

  • Ensure your UpMetrics login is assigned an Org Admin or Editor role. Learn more about roles and permissions.

  • Have at least one form, one question, and one question with answer choices in your libraries.

How short names work

Every form, question, and answer choice in Reporting has a short-form version of its name, aka a short name. UpMetrics generates the short name automatically from the item’s full name when you create the item, and it can’t be edited after that.

When your Reporting data reaches Advanced Analytics, short names are combined to form each column header, in this order: the form’s short name, then the question’s short name, then the answer choice’s short name. Each part is up to 19 characters, and the parts are separated by two underscores, so a full column header can be up to 61 characters long.

For example, the answer choice "Strongly Agree", on a "Net Promoter Score" question, in a form with the name "Reading Forward Form," produces this column header:

reading_forward_for__net_promoter_score__strongly_agree

Reading a column header from left to right tells you exactly where the data came from: which form, which question, and which answer.

Find short names

Short names appear directly below the name of each form, question, and answer choice when you're in the Reporting module.

Find a form’s short name

  1. In the left navigation, click Reporting > Form Library. The form library appears.
  2. Click the name of a form. The form’s questions and question groups appear, and the form’s short name appears beneath the form name.

Find a question’s short name

  1. In the left navigation, click Reporting > Question Library. The question library appears.
  2. Click a question. A side panel opens with the question details, and the question’s short name appears beneath the question name.
  3. Click the X in the upper right corner to close the panel.

Find an answer choice’s short name

  1. In the left navigation, click Reporting > Question Library.
  2. Click a single select, multi-select, or yes/no question. A side panel opens with the question details.
  3. In the Answer choices area, find the short name listed under each answer choice.

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