Hi!

I updated a old version of Limesurvey (something 2.x) to Limesurvey 3 LTS.
After the update my ULR parameters are not passed through anymore.

The welcome/token page is called with the paramter:
www.sample.com/limesurvey/index.php/2020...y_parameter=my_value

After entering the token the survey starts, although without parameter and therefore without prefilled values:
www.sample.com/limesurvey/index.php/2020

Rolling back to version 2 it works again, no other settings changed (to my knowledge).

Anybody experienced something similar?
Thanks!

C30000 wrote: Anybody experienced something similar?

That is not uncommon. Often a bug introduced in certain versions of LS. LS 3 LTS is fixed quite often.
The question is what version of LS3 did you used? Sometimes the issue is an old survey which isn't using URL parameter definitions to map values. You perhaps can create a sample survey (LSS-Export) with one parameter.

I would first check, if the parameter is captured when you deactivate the Welcomepage and without token access.
If that is working, you have no issue inside the survey file.
You can report the bug via Bugtracker.

I can reproduce this in 3.21.6 as well as 4.2.5.

I created a sample survey with one question and passed the parameter like the manual advises, no welcome/token screen, then it works.

It is a bit odd that such a bug would go unnoticed in both versions.
Will report a bug.

As Jelo says, this bug might have been solved in 3.x already, but might have been reintroduced later by someone. It has happend before, and I guess it will happen again.

C30000 wrote: It is a bit odd that such a bug would go unnoticed in both versions.

That is very common. In the last ten years I haven seen such issues be unnoticed for weeks or months. If you have a working version of LimeSurvey, you won't update that easily. Updates under the label "stable" can contain fixes from the same day which are not released as unstable before. Many user don't know what a URL get parameter is. So testing is limited to power users which don't take "stable" as "production ready".

Can you update to www.limesurvey.org/lts-releases-download 3.22.18 and report the issue if still happen.

With a sample lss with only one or 2 questions.

I tested it with 3.22.18

New survey with 2 questions, called with 2 parameters, both passed correctly.
Set the survey to closed-access mode, url parameters not passed.

Hi,
I tested in 3.22. and found:
The parameter name must not contain an underscore.

"myparam" works, "my_param" does not.









Of course, panel integration values set accordingly.

Joffm

Joffm wrote: I tested in 3.22. and found:The parameter name must not contain an underscore.

Underscore is a valid character. That can be classified as a bug.

While my initial example URL parameters had underscores, at my later test I used standard question names (as "Q00" etc.), did not change anything for me.

You said before, you have a small sample survey.

Please provide the lss export.

Joffm

Here is the lss export:
filetransfer.io/data-package/D3q7kOaH