I have also noticed that when you submit a partial response the getSurveyList call shows the 'count_abandoned' field increment by 1 for about a minute, then reduces by 1 and then the 'count_complete' increments by 1. All the while, the 'total_responses' field remains at zero.

I appreciate the API is still in beta with a new version coming soon, so any help would be great.

Cheers Jonathan,

Returning a response ID in the success/fail XML after the submitResponse call would be a good way to implement this from a developers view. Then having the response ID field as an optional field in the submitResponse method (which overwrites or appends the previous submission).

I'm still a little confused by this total responses field and how it relates to the count_complete field. I'm getting the following xml from a getSurveyList call:

<id>136514</id>
<title LANGUAGE=”English”>One Question Test</title>
<date_created>2009-05-17 18:54:46</date_created>
<date_lastactivity>2009-05-18 09:23:23</date_lastactivity>
<total_responses>0</total_responses>
<survey_type>Standard Survey</survey_type>
<status>Launched</status>
<count_inprogress>0</count_inprogress>
<count_complete>9</count_complete>
<count_partial>0</count_partial>
<count_overflow>0</count_overflow>
<count_abandoned>0</count_abandoned>

I'm a little confused as to how the total_responses field can be zero while the count_complete can be 9. Any ideas?

No worries Jonathan, I appreciate this is still in beta. Would this also explain why the TEXTBOX question type isn't returning any option fields with regard to formatting – e.g.:

<question sku=”3″ type=”TEXTBOX” required=”true”>
<title>What is the date?</title>
<options/>
</question>

Just wondering how I could know whether a textbox field has been setup for currency, or percentage or date, etc. And what would happen if I submitted text to a date field?

Kind regards,

-Paul

Does the SKU number corresponds to the 'questionid' as documented in the submitSurvey call. I see no mention of this 'questionid' in the survey design xml. Thus, I'm a little confused if my submit survey code is right. My current code uses the sku as the questionid:

values=questionid:answervalue|questionid:answervalue

Is this correct?

Appreciate your help Jonathan,

The documentation is a little sparse, as I also got confused as to how one should submit certain question types like rank, radio and checkboxes. For example, suppose a checkbox question type such as this:

What are you favourite colors?
Red        (selected)
Blue
Green     (selected)
Orange
Other      (selected with value: Purple)

Would the submit string be as follows:

values=questionid:Red;Green;Purple

or

values=questionid:TRUE;FALSE;TRUE;FALSE;Purple

or

values=questionid:1;0;1;0;Purple

Also for ranking, do you just have the text choices written one after each other separated by the semi-colon?

For the submitSurvey call I've noticed your API documentation refers to strict RFC 3986 encoding of the string. I'm assuming that is because of the ':' and ';” delimiters for the questionids and each value?

However, I have noticed that RFC 3986 does NOT specify the pipe character '|' as a delimiter, which the submitSurvey call needs to separate questions. Thus, if a user was to type a pipe into a textbox and I submit the value, wouldn't that break the call? So wouldn't I need escape characters for pipes also?

Hi,

When calling submitSurvey for a Continuous Sum question type what do I do for a question containing an 'Other' field?

I was expecting on the call string looking like this:

values=questionid:12;34;546;76

Yet the 'Other' field allows a user to enter a text string as an alternative option. So how do I submit that text string as well as it's numerical value?