The Library is the central storage place for questionnaires or questionnaire sections that you want to make available for inclusion in other questionnaires. For example, if most of the questionnaires that your company creates have a standard set of demographic questions, it makes sense to store them in the library so that they can be imported into every questionnaire. This saves time and ensures that the questions are identical in all questionnaires.

The standard Questionnaire Library is divided into two sections. The Shared section (FMRoot\Shared\Questionnaire Library Items) contains questionnaires that are available to anyone who uses Build. The Roles section is divided into subfolders containing questionnaires that are accessible only by members of a particular role; so, for example, only members of RoleA will be able to access questionnaires saved in the RoleA area of the library (FMRoot\Roles\RoleA\Questionnaire Library Items).

Build comes with a collection of predefined surveys that are installed in different folders within the Shared section of the library. Some questionnaires are complete and ready to use with no further design work required, while others require minor customization such as replacing a marker for a company name or product with your own company or product name. A third group are smaller questionnaires that you would probably import into your own questionnaire files and then expand to form more detailed surveys.

The exact structure of the main library sections will be determined by the person responsible for maintaining the library, but it will probably consist of a number of folders for different types of questionnaires. Each folder may contain subfolders or questionnaires, in much the same way that you organize your files on your hard drive. You can use the library in the following ways: