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API response submission with response title

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6:37
May 19, 2009


Paul

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posts 35

Hi,


When submitting a response to a survey via the API, it would be nice to add a set of optional fields to identify the response. You have already seen a previous post of mine talking about the response id field in the submitSurveyResponse method when talking about partial submission. However, I'd like to suggest adding an optional human readable 'response title' field.


This would allow users to easily search and find particular responses, rather than relying on the respond ID field in the browse responses table. So the submitSurveyResponse call could look like this:

… &cmd=submitSurveyResponse&sid=136514&srid=30376694&srtitle=PaulsLazyResponse&values=2:Blue|3:jon


Kind regards,


-Paul

7:10
May 19, 2009


jonathan

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posts 1129

Hey, Paul!

After your initial post yesterday, I started talking with our development team and up to our CTO. We're considering the possibility of returning the response ID via XML (rather than just a “Success” message) when you submit a response – that way you have the ability to later access that single response.

On the other hand, adding in a “response title” field isn't something we will be looking to implement (at least not in this current version of SurveyGizmo) as it would require an overhawl of our entire application structure – but remember that you can always add a hidden field to your survey and name it “response title” then write to that field through the API just as you would the answers to a survey question.

Jonathan Turk, SurveyGizmo Account Manager
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8:12
May 19, 2009


Paul

Member

posts 35

That's a very novel solution to the response title request, thanks.



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