Folders: Best practices

Learn the various ways to use Folders in the UserTesting platform. 

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About Folders

  • Folders allow you to categorize your tests and insights, supporting how you and your team work inside a workspace.
  • You can create and find folders from the navigation menu on your UserTesting Dashboard.
  • You'll need a license with test creation rights (Unlimited, Standard, Creator) to create folders.
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Use folders to organize evolving workspaces

  • Folders and workspaces work together.
  • Your workspaces may be aligned with your team structures or tied to large-scale initiatives, and they will likely evolve over time as reorganizations happen. 
  • Folders are nested underneath workspaces and help people create subgroups of information.
  • Use folders as another organizational strategy to help you narrow down to a specific piece of information in a complex information space. 

Example

Workspace Folders
Design team
  • Findability testing
  • Mobile app customers
  • Preference testing

 

 

Add folder descriptions

  • Give each folder in your workspace a description so your team members understand its purpose.
  • By creating a filing system for tests, drafts, and highlight reels, your team will know which folders to use for their content.

Follow these steps to add a folder description:

  1. Select a folder you have created.
  2. Choose the “...” option to edit the folder’s description.
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Launch tests directly from a target folder

Instead of starting with an unfilled test within the greater workspace area, you can launch new tests, including Live Conversations, directly from a certain folder. 

Follow these steps to launch a test directly from a folder:

  1. Navigate to the target folder in which you wish to place the test.
  2. Select the Create test dropdown and choose the type of test you want to run.
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Alternatively, you can...

Select the folder destination during test creation by editing the test’s workspace and folder location on the test launcher page.
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Move tests to different folders

  1. After creating a test, navigate to the workspace page or test page to move a test to a specific folder.
  2. Select the “...” option next to a test and choose Move to.
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  3. Select the folder where you want to move the test.
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