Sometimes the same response will appear in more than one list. For example, all brands of yogurt may have raspberry and strawberry flavors. Depending on how you set up and use the lists, you may need to use namespacing to ensure that these 'duplicate' responses are treated as separate responses. This topic provides sufficient information about namespacing such that you can understand when you must use it with shared lists. For more detailed information about namespacing in general see Responses with duplicate response names.

Assume that you have the following lists:

Both lists contain a strawberry response. As long as you do not use the two lists with the same question, there is no need to use namespacing because these responses will always be unique within the response list for a single question. For example:

Here you have one question for Alpine brand and another for Dairy Fresh brand so there is no overlap between the responses within each question.

If you rewrite this example so that there is one question for all brands, the response list for that question contains two occurrences of strawberry. For this to be accepted, you must follow each list name in the question definition with the namespace keyword as shown below.

This forces each response name to include the name of its parent list, so the names of the responses become AlpineList.Raspberry, AlpineList.Strawberry, DairyFreshList.Strawberry, and so on.

The interview page for this example is as follows:

The same rule applies if you create a shared list that uses lists that have common responses. In this case you place the namespace keyword inside the main list as follows: