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Vanta Questionnaire Automation provides tooling for completing various types of questionnaires. In this article, we’ll walk through how to complete a spreadsheet questionnaire.
Uploading a spreadsheet questionnaire
Go to Questionnaires
Click + Add questionnaire
Fill in the company URL, questionnaire name, set the questionnaire type to file, and upload the spreadsheet file
You can optionally fill any other fields
Click Continue
Click Suggest answers
The process to extract questions and suggest answers has now started
Click on the questionnaire from the table to view the suggested answers
Uploading a document questionnaire
Go to Questionnaires
Click + Add questionnaire
Fill in the questionnaire name
Select Document for the questionnaire type and upload the document file
You can optionally fill any other fields
Click Continue
The process to extract questions and suggest answers has now started
Click on the questionnaire from the table to view the suggested answers
Reviewing answer sources and making changes
Click on the questionnaire from the table to view the suggested answers.
Click on an answer in the list to see where it came from or make changes.
If answered by Vanta AI
Click References to see which parts of your knowledge base created the answer.
If the answer was matched from your answer library
Click More Details to see when the answer was added and where it came from.
Optionally click Select answer on any other suggestion to use as the current answer.
Optionally, write a new answer by editing the Current answer field.
All changes are saved automatically
Collaborating on questionnaires
Learn more about collaborating on questionnaires.
Marking the questionnaire as complete
Before marking the questionnaire as complete, all answers must be marked as approved. Only approved answers will be imported back into the answer library for future use.
While viewing a questionnaire, click Update status in the top right corner and then select Complete.
Optionally select to sync new and updated answers to the library for future use.
Sharing the completed questionnaire
For spreadsheets
Click Export in the top right corner.
Click either Export original format or Export (.csv).
For documents
Click Export (.csv).
Export in original format for documents is coming soon.