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I want to send the same survey to gather data from multiple locations. I found out that I can use hidden questions in my survey and pre-fill them with parameters in the link URL:

Example with two locations (called A and
I also noticed, that I have to use newtest=Y for testing:
From what I could test so far is working. What I am wondering is the following: Do I have to keep the "newtest" when I send out the URLs to the particpants? E.g.
1. A person receives  2. The field Location gets prefilled with "B".
3. The person doenst end the survey and closes the survey.
4. The person opens up the survey again and a later point in time. Will Location still be filled with "B"?

Best regards
Jan


 

Ja_Del wrote:

From what I could test so far is working. What I am wondering is the following: Do I have to keep the "newtest" when I send out the URLs to the particpants? E.g.
 

newtest reset session, if you close browser : you reset session.

If you don't close browser : you need newtest (or any other way to reset session). For example : for kiosk mode : you NEED newtest.


 

What happens if the session does not get reset? Does the field stay prefilled or is it emptied? (e.g a person closes the tab, but not the browser)?
 

Ja_Del wrote:

What happens if the session does not get reset? Does the field stay prefilled or is it emptied? (e.g a person closes the tab, but not the browser)?

 

prefilled : the survey didn't restart, then it's the same answer, step etc …

Submitting reset session too (except if you allow print if i don't make error)

If you send individual links to each participant, you might actually want to consider a closed survey with tokens. You can save custom attributes in the participant table and use these attributes within the survey (if not set to anonymous). Depending on what you exactly do and need, I would find that the cleaner and neater solution.

holch wrote:

If you send individual links to each participant, you might actually want to consider a closed survey with tokens. You can save custom attributes in the participant table and use these attributes within the survey (if not set to anonymous). Depending on what you exactly do and need, I would find that the cleaner and neater solution.
 

I need to work with individual links for individual locations, not for specific participants. But thanks for the advice, if I ever need that, I am going with that solution. I also think it is cleaner. 

I will just use prefilled "location=" and get rid of the "newTest=Y" one I am done testing. 

Thanks for all the help!

In theory you could still use tokens with a higher "uses left" count, but if the same code is for a number of people there is not much advantage of tokens over a variable in the URL.

holch wrote:

In theory you could still use tokens with a higher "uses left" count, but if the same code is for a number of people there is not much advantage of tokens over a variable in the URL.
 

Or disable answer persistance (best for different people) and allow any number of response.