I've read many forum and manual posts, but can't get this to work at all.(A few years ago I had it working on an earlier version of LS.)

I'm running the latest version through LS.

For Q1 which I have hidden I want to record a response of Yes or No. (That is the question type.) However I can't get any URL to work for me. I must be missing something really simple, but I can't see it.

I can't use the Panel Integration as this only appears to work for text fields.

These are the variations I've tried without success.

example.com/145251?lang=en/eb?Q1=Y

example.com/145251?lang=en/Q1="Y "

example.com/145251?lang=en/eb?Q1=Y

example.com/145251?Q1="Y"&newtest=1

example.com/145251?14251X1=Y

example.com/145251?Q1=Yes&newtest=1

What am I missing??

Thanks in advance

Have you tested with the question visible?

Yes I have, the question is not answered

nmillstoshibatap wrote: I'm running the latest version through LS.

Which translates into what exact version. The "latest" is never helpful. You don't know when the next latest is released. So numbers please.


Start with complete URLs to check issues with rewriting the URL first. Start with a simple textquestion, which shows the text of the get variable. If that is working, than try it with the other questionstypes.

Post a complete URL from your surveylink (you can change the domainname to something different e.g www.xyz.tld/ ).

www.xyz.tld/index.php/survey/index/sid/0...questioncode2=answer

Thanks jelo, the version I'm using is 2.72.6.

I used your troubleshooting advice and got it running within minutes as I wanted it. can't figure out why it wouldn't work before, but I got the output I wanted.

A working URL looks like this:

example.com/145251?newtest=Y&Q101=N

Thanks

Looking at the last post I thought I would be able to get this to work using the querystring parameters &question275=mystringoftext.
But it's not working! I picked on "question275" because that is the id of the div in the web page that contains the question. The id of the input field itself is "answer837571X11X275" - which makes sense 83751 is the id of the survey, 11 is the id of the question group, and 275 is the id of the question. What am I missing?
I am running version 2.55.1+161026

Thanks,
Tom

Hi,

the GET-Parameter is the Question code.

As nmillstoshibatap wrote:
example.com/145251?newtest=Y&Q101=N

Joffm

www.limesurvey.org/manual/URL_fields/en#...using_GET_parameters

Seems that newtest=Y is the key. Thanks!
Tom

newtest=Y is causing a new session. Nothing more, nothing less.
Not sure why that should be the key for prefilling variables via URL.
You might have issue when testing in one browser without resetting the session.
But during a live field you might not use newtest=Y to allow respondents to stay in the interview when reentering the URL.

Hi all,

I am having some trouble to prefill with URL.
When I try to fill a simple text question it works fine, but when I try to fill a subquestion in a multiple short text question it does not work.
I am following the syntax presented here:
www.limesurvey.org/manual/URL_fields/en#...using_GET_parameters

The question I am trying to prefill is EnsList and the subquestion is Ens01.

And my url looks like this:
xxx-test.xxx.ch/index.php?r=survey/index...01=Complet&newtest=Y

Any ideas?

I also have a question regarding the newtest=Y parameter. I have two surveys, one parent, one child.
The parent survey contains a multiple short text with a list of links (each a subquestion) that leads to the child survey using different tokens, the answer fields are read only. The list of tokens of the child survey are stored in a token attribute of the parent survey.
The end url of the child survey leads back to the parent survey and fills the answer field of the corresponding subquestion with the word "complete".
My question is:
If I use newtest=Y will the previously prefilled answers be erased ?
I hope I am clear.

Thanks in advance for your precious help!
Best regards,

Ana

Hi, Ana,

I tried with
www.example.de/survey/index.php/947394?l...ewtest=Y&Q1_SQ002=My prefilled text in SQ002&Q1_SQ004=My prefilled text in SQ004
and got the expected

It also worked without "newtest=Y".


Joffm

Oh, now you attached your sample; thank you