You can get survey settings via get_survey_properties. However, any inherited settings simply show as "Inherit", "I", -1, etc. So I thought maybe to use the gsid to lookup the survey group settings and combine them. But there is no endpoint to get the survey settings for a survey group. list_survey_groups just shows the info for the group itself, not the associated survey settings.

I see two possible fixes.

(1) Merge the survey group settings with the survey settings in the get_survey_properties endpoint (maybe add a flag for the unmerged settings (current behavior) or the merged settings (proposed behavior))

(2) Add a new endpoint like get_survey_group_settings, that will take in the gsid and return the survey settings and the calling application can merge them.

I think 1 is better, especially in the case of multiple levels of inheritance.

2 might still be useful on its own.