# Can anyone explain "new\_question" field in survey\_spec?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-anyone-explain-new-question-field-in-survey-spec/39230>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [December 18, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-anyone-explain-new-question-field-in-survey-spec/39230 "2024-12-18T08:45:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![bartowl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/bartowl/32/7029_2.png) [@bartowl](https://forum.ansible.com/u/bartowl)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 8:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-anyone-explain-new-question-field-in-survey-spec/39230/1 "2024-12-18T08:45:19Z")

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The thing is - when showing survey\_spec via API, there is a field named “new\_question” of type boolean for each survey question. It seems to be somehow mandatory, yet when I create new elements via API without this field, it gets anyway added automatically.

I searched through the entire source code of AWX and did not found any use of this attribute. I am really interested what is it used for, and whether should I set it to true or false when creating new survey questions via API.

This is my first post on this forum, so Welcome everyone!

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**Author:** ![anon81884396](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b782af/32.png) [@anon81884396](https://forum.ansible.com/u/anon81884396)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2024, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/can-anyone-explain-new-question-field-in-survey-spec/39230/2 "2024-12-18T17:34:15Z")

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Never noticed this myself until you mentioned it. Lo and behold there it is in the API. Interested to see if there’s a reason for it now too.