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Combining Surveys/ Multiple Publish option?

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10:18
June 13, 2008


Bryan

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So I ran 3 simple surveys at my office to determine product perceptions based upon functional unit. This gives me the ability to see if Marketing, Management, and Development all think the same things are important. Problem is the report structure is missing!!!

Basic Issue -
Problem is I can’t combine several identical surveys into one report that allows me to look at each grouping individually, against all the other groups and finally as a single monolithic blob of results.

New Feature -
This ability to have a survey that gets published to multiple “demographics” and has separate but combinable pools of results would be really useful.

Meaning that the same survey could be published multiple times. Each publish would be given its own URL and response storage. Each publish could also be associated with a contact or email list. All results are kept separated by published URL but the resulting reports from the survey can be combined across publish boundaries or in any combination.

Anyhow. Hope that makes sense.
Bryan

2:13
June 16, 2008


cheri

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posts 288

Hi, Bryan.

You really don’t need 3 separate surveys here. All you have to do is ask some type of qualifier question in your survey (or perhaps use a query string) to differentiate respondents into their respective groups.

Then you can run reports and filter by the qualifier to get a report on each group separately.

A regular summary report will give you a report on all of the groups together.

I hope this helps,

Cheri

9:35
July 1, 2008


Bryan

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Cheri

Sorry for the LONG delay in getting back to this..

While your suggestion would work (though I have not tried it) there is a fundamental problem. It puts the group selection process in the hands of the survey respondent. Their interpretation of the question being asked determines the pool they are placed in.

Simply put - there will always be a situation where the groups are defined by some arbitrary constraint that isn’t apparent to the respondent.

Besides, As the survey creator it should be my decision in all cases as to who is part of what survey group.

Example - I have 3 different customer bases - New, Stale, Active, the classification of each is very subjective. - could be determined by how long they have been customers, or how much they have ordered in the past year, or the number of orders per month. So why confuse the respondent with having to try to classify themselves. It makes no sense to me.

Bryan

12:08
July 1, 2008


Mario

Moderator

Boulder, CO

posts 294

Bryan,
Cheri also suggested the query string option. You would provide the link to the group with something like:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/12345/survey-name/?group=active

Then, within the survey using the merge code [%%GET_group] you can insert it into a hidden value. You can, of course, filter based on the ‘group’ query string in reporting without pulling it into the survey with a merge code, since it is recorded regardless.

Report filtering is a Pro and Enterprise feature, just a side note.

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