Hello,

I'm trying to pass a parameter to my survey via URL, so that a short text field is prefilled. I tried the following, but it didn't work.

example.com/limesurvey/index.php/761854?name=abc

"name" is the text field’s qcode. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your advide!

Hi,

according to the manual: "It's important to add "newtest/Y" to the link" ( www.limesurvey.org/manual/Workarounds:_S...using_the_survey_URL )

Maybe then it works.
example.com/limesurvey/index.php/761854/newtest/Y?name=abc or
example.com/limesurvey/index.php/survey/index/sid/761854/newtest/Y?name=abc

Greets
Stefan

Hey Stefan,

thank you very much, it works just as planned!

Greets
Benjamin

This solution is not working for me, I have tried a number of solutions suggested in the workarounds
Survey URL is
myurl.ca/index.php?r=survey/index/sid/123456/lang/en

Survey id = 123456
Question Group ID = 1
Question ID = 20
Question CODE = T0

And I can not seem to locate the Limesurvey Version# to see if it is 1.80, 1.92, 2.0 or other

@mfeher, what question type are you trying to pre-populate?

Thank you Tom. The question is Short Answer format. I am populating it with a value from another system, and actually managed to resolve the issue with the format of the URL. I ma

survey.myurl.ca/index.php?r=survey/index...newtest/Y&T0=1234567
or
survey.myurl.ca/index.php?r=survey/index...Y&12345X1X20=1234567

Thank you to Denis who assisted

I added the full URL into an email template which is sent automatically based on specific criteria as follows:

survey.myurl.ca/index.php?r=survey/index...ewtest/Y&12345X1X20= [token]sytem_table_field_name[\token]

Hi. I have the same problem, and tried all the solutions suggested here, as well as those on the "lime survey manual", without any results.

My one field survey running on limeservice:

potvorko.limequery.com/index.php/183169/lang-en

I want to pre-fill the one short-answer question with some value passed through the URL:

The question's SGQA id is: 183169X2X5. The code is: Q1. It sits in a Question Group with code: QG1

I tried many combinations of the url including these ones, with no luck:
potvorko.limequery.com/index.php?r=surve...Y&183169X2X5=twonine
potvorko.limequery.com/index.php/183169/...Q1=twonine&newtest=Y

Any ideas?

thanks.

potvorko wrote: ....
potvorko.limequery.com/index.php?r=surve...Y&183169X2X5=twonine
potvorko.limequery.com/index.php/183169/...Q1=twonine&newtest=Y
....

I'm not sure, but try to deactivate "Captcha", i think it can break prefilling url

After
index.php/183169/lang-en?Q1=twonine&newtest=Y
index.php/183169/lang-en?183169X2X5=twonine&newtest=Y

Must do the trick

Yes, deactivating the captcha, front-page, and token authentication makes the URL parameter passing work.
But I would like to continue to filter robots and non-authentic users, and still be able to pass URL parameters.
Any way to have Captcha be enabled at the end of the session, after pressing the send/save button, for example? Or any other suggestions?

Hi,

I never have robots without Captcha, i don't understand why robits come click on next, click on next X times ???

But actually : if you need Captcha + URL param : make a bug report ....

Denis

Not helpful. And very cryptic (what does "i never have robots without Captcha" mean?). Anyway, this is not a bug, but if you want to report it as such, go for it.

Anyone else with suggestions or examples on how URL param passing can work with authenticated users?

I never have robots without Captcha mean : on any of mine survey OR client survey have "robots", i never use Captcha in any survey i manage.

authenticated users => Use token www.limesurvey.org/manual/Tokens , and use Attribute for managing information.

Denis
PS: i don't report bug if i don't need it . Sometimes, i fix bug i report or another user report. I think you can report it as bug. If you don't want to report : no problem for me ....

still confusing and cryptic. But here's something to think about: Just because you don't believe in Captcha, doesn't mean robots don't exist.

Also, as i said before, with token authentication, URL parameter passing doesn't work. The reason it doesn't work is for the same reason that it doesn't work when there is a captcha or an introduction page between the URL send and the actual survey form loading.

potvorko,

1. Please add your findings at www.limesurvey.org/manual/Workarounds:_S...using_the_survey_URL so other benefit from your solution as well.

2. Furthermore, please also create a bug report and post the link here afterwards so we can try to fix the captcha issue.

3. From my exprience with > 100 Limesurvey projects each year you don't really need captchas. So far I have never seen any robot filling out a survey. They are not that clever.