title: Randomization in Qualtrics using Photos or Graphics and Loop and Merge
body: <p>I am creating a survey in <a href="http://www.qualtrics.com/" rel="nofollow">Qualtrics</a> with many photos, say 1000. I want to have each survey participant answer, say 6, questions per photo. Each participant will see 5 photos that are randomly assigned.</p>
  
  <p>Before looking into things, I assumed that there would be a way to upload the 1000 photos, create one block in Qualtrics (with the 6 questions) and then simply randomize the photo that occurs and have this be repeated this 5 times.</p>
  
  <p>But it seems like this is either not possible or not obvious. I called Qualtrics and they said that I would manually need to create 1000 blocks (each block would be exactly the same with the exception of the title and the photo). I would then need to go into the Survey Flow and use the Randomizer there and manually add all 1000 blocks and have it randomly present 5 of the elements.</p>
  
  <p>I really hope that there is a better way. This will take a ton of time if I have to do it this way.</p>
  
  <p>If not, is there any way to automate anything?</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Creating new blocks and automatically populating the photos.  I know python and could possibly write a script to generate blocks, BUT the photo names are changed from their original names into some complicated code that Qualtrics generates.</li>
  <li>Loading the photos into Qualtrics all at once (it currently requires one to load photos one at a time).</li>
  </ol>