When scriptwriters create questionnaires in Build, they can either accept the default names that Build assigns to questionnaire items or they can create their own names. The default names are based on the item types, so you have questions named Quest1, Quest2, and so on, and shared lists called List1, List2, and so on. If you have a company standard that you want scriptwriters to use, you can change Build so that it automatically creates items with the names you want. Each item name will then consist of the prefix you have defined followed by a number.

The default item names are defined in the mdmext.en-us.resx file in C:\InetPub\wwwroot\SPSSMR\InterviewBuilder\res (or the equivalent if you have UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer set up to use a non-default web site). If you have scriptwriters who work in a language other than English, you might also have a language-specific version of this file: mdmext.da.resx for Danish texts, for example. The easiest way to edit a .resx file is to use Microsoft Visual Studio, but since the files are text files you can edit them using a text editor if that is all you have available. The notes that follow explain how to update the file using both methods.

The value column shows the default names that Build uses for items and other texts that it needs to display. Select the texts you want to change and type in the new defaults. When you have finished, save your changes and close Visual Studio.

When you open a .resx file using a text editor, it is in XML format. Questions, for example, are defined as follows:

Find the <data> tag for an item whose text you want to change and then, in the <value> tag, replace the existing default text with the new text you want to use.