I have a survey where I have a list of people I want to invite, so I've added them to my participant list. I also want the "public" to be able to complete the survey -- but I don't want them to have to register for the survey.

Scenario is customer survey -- existing customers are in my participant list so I can reach out to past customers, but I also want new customers landing on my web site to respond to the survey -- but without them having to register

Is there any way to configure my survey to allow this?

Hi, blocka,

before you wrack your brains why not just copy the survey?

One closed survey for your customers, one open survey for the visitors of your web site.
Advantages:
You can adapt the text of the welcome page that it is more appealing to get the highest possible response rate.

Kind regards
Joffm

This situation has arisen again with another survey. While I could indeed create two copies of the survey, I wonder if anyone has any ideas how this could be accomplished with one survey?

You could add one "dummy respondent" to respondent list (tokens). Then you increase the number of "uses left" of this specific dummy respondent to a number that you will most probably not reach on your website and use this link to show on the website. Let's say you set "uses left" of this specific token to 10.000, so it will only stop working if really 10.000 people used this link to fill the survey.

That's a good idea... Am I right to assume that there are a few caveats with respect to this -- like it will cause problems if people want to save and return later, or if you have turned Enable token-based response persistence or Enable token-based response persistence on under the token panel on survey settings?

Yes, if you set token-based response persistence the next one will start where the previous one has stopped, so if you need this, then it won't work.

You may speed up the registration part via a plugin.
www.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-this-w...o-straight-to-survey

Yes, it's a solution, but taking the code to have :
- Before accessing surey : test if token is set
- If not : create a token and use it directly

Then we have a clean solution for this.

I have no time actually (some big project) , but's it's a good plugin idea.

Hi, I have a problem of creating a survey with public access without tokens and without giving one´s email adress. How is that possible?

Thank you!

I don't understand the question. Simply do not initiate tokens and the survey will be accessible to the public.

If you want a survey with public access, so anyone can access it without registering or anything, just don't make it a closed survey when you activate it and don't create a token table and don't mark public registration.

Then anyone who has the link can access the survey.

If that is not what you want to do: Explain better.