Hi,

My survey is too long to be activated, so I divided it into Survey 1 and Survey 2 and connect them with End URL. But some questions in Survey 2 need to use the answers of array questions in Survey 1. I searched online and found it is possible to pass answers through URL. Although I read www.limesurvey.org/manual/URL_fields#End_URL_field , I still confused about how to pass answers of an array question in Survey 1 to Survey 2. I attached two sample surveys, each of them contains one same question(A2). Could someone help me to pass the answer of A2 in Survey 1 to Survey 2? Thank you!

Hi,

you obviously don't want to ask the same question again.

Your question is how to build the end-url and how to capture the parameters in the second survey.

1. end-url:
You have to add the parameters to the URL, separated by "&".
Here I named the parameters V11,V12,V13,V14,V21,V22,...
And you will get an end-url like:
2, Capturing
In your second survey you use "panel integration".
For each parameter I used a question of type "short text" (pV11,pV12,pV12,...)

and I get the parameters back in these questions.

To enter the values back into the array use an equation like: (what I think is not done in your survey).
{A2_SQ001_SQ001=pV11}
{A2_SQ001_SQ002=pV12}
{A2_SQ001_SQ003=pV13}
...
{A2_SQ002_SQ002=pV22}
...



Okay, but there is a length limit of an url.
Read here
boutell.com/newfaq/misc/urllength.html

BTW: hat for is the hard coded text in the address field. Can't you implement it as a placeholder?

Joffm

And do not forget to add the SAVEDID to the end-url as well. And capture it in the second.
Otherwise you have no chance to merge the surveys

Thank you very much, Joffm! I understand! Very clear explanation!

Joffm wrote: And you will get an end-url like:

Code:

https://www.myServer.de/survey/index.php/693311?newtest=Y&V11=Date of birth&V12=2010-04&V13=Street, neighborhood or building: Vischerstraat 23 City: Nijmegen Country: NL Postcode: 1234 AB&V14=Apartment&V21=End time of Home 1

Small reminder: Not all content can by transferred via URL without URLencoding/deconding of text. There are characters which will break the URL browser or serverside.

Another reminder: URLdata might be cached and logged somewhere. So data from the survey might stays in thirdparty systems (e.g. logfiles).

Thank you. I will pay attention to this issue.