- What is TestInvite?
- Build Your First Test
- Run Your First Assessment
- Taking the Assessment
- Viewing the Results
- Question Bank Overview
- Common Question Features
- Question Types
- Creating Questions
- Organizing Questions
- Content Blocks
- Roles & Access
- Media Library
- Import & Export
- Question Submissions
- Question Bank Schema
- Browsing Questions
- Cloning Questions
- Bulk Updating Questions
- Tests Overview
- My Tests
- Creating a Test
- The Test Editor
- Test Settings
- Sections & Pages
- Adding Questions
- Page Builders
- Test Profile
- Reporting
- Test Papers
- Analytics
- Publishing a Test
- Test Library
- Marketplace
- Tasks Overview
- Creating a Task
- Task Dashboard
- Steps
- Task Settings
- Candidates
- Test Sessions
- Sent Mails
- Proctoring
- Analytics
Reporting Name
Assign a custom label to a question so it is easy to identify in data exports, results tables, and analytics — instead of relying on auto-generated IDs or truncated question text.
A reporting name is a short, custom label you assign to a question. Wherever question-level data is exported or tabulated — results exports, session data, answer extraction — the reporting name identifies the question instead of an auto-generated ID or a truncated prompt.
Why It Matters
Without a reporting name, a column in your export is labeled by the question's internal identifier — meaningless in a spreadsheet with fifty columns. With one, the column reads numerical_reasoning_04 or openness_item_2, and anyone analysing the data knows exactly what they are looking at. This matters most when:
- You export results to a spreadsheet or feed them into a statistics tool or HR system.
- You use Extract Answer to include raw answer values in the reporting pipeline — the reporting name is the key those values are reported under.
- The same question appears in several tests and you want its data aligned across all of them.
Choosing Good Names
- Keep them short, unique, and machine-friendly —
Q01_algebra,eng_listening_12,sjt_conflict_3. - Encode what you'll filter by: topic, dimension, or sequence number.
- Agree on one convention per question bank — consistency is what makes a 200-column export navigable.
How to Set It
- Open the question in the editor and click the settings (gear) button.
- Switch to the Details tab.
- Enable the Reporting Name checkbox and enter the name (required once enabled).
- Save. The name appears as a chip in the question editor toolbar — click its × to remove it.
Reporting names are for machines and analysts; question titles are for humans. A question can have both — the reporting name never appears to candidates.