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LINK BACK PARTICIPANTS TO ATTRIBUTES IN Anonymous SURVEY

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7 years 2 months ago #161861 by yohay
Hi,
I made a mistake and some how started an anonymous survey- a survey that linkage between the data to the attributes is a MUST.
Is there any way to link those respondents back and solve this crises?
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7 years 2 months ago #161862 by holch
Nope, no chance. Otherwise the Anonymous-Feature would be a lie. If you run an anonymous survey, you can't link back results to the attributes in the token table. That is on purpose. It is actually what the anonymous feature does.

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7 years 2 months ago #161863 by holch
I don't know how many have already participated in the survey. If it is only a few, I would download their responses and save then. Then I would deactivate the survey and start it new as non-anonymous. I would ask everyone to take part again and tell them that there was a problem. Now if most have already respondet, I guess this is no solution.

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7 years 2 months ago #161870 by yohay
Thank you all. I guess I have some phone calls to make
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7 years 2 months ago #161879 by holch
Sorry for not being able to provide any better news.

But there is quite a big warning when activating anonymous responses with tokens:



But I know how easy it is to just read over it and click.

I hope you can solve the problem somehow.

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7 years 2 months ago #161936 by yohay
Yes, I was aware of that thus my surprise when I saw the configuration...
Anyways, it's good that it happened now when I'm still quite a novice
Thanks
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