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Possible that answers stay visable when using a questionnaire again

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3:04
June 24, 2009


Annemiek

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I have a question. We like to develop a questionnaire. This same questionnaire will be send several times to the same people, with a year or 2 years between to check if answers are still the same. Is it possible that answers given in the first/previous questionnaire stay visable when we send the questionnaire the next time. So the responded only needs to check if it still the right answer?

11:30
June 24, 2009


marybeth

Admin

posts 245

Hi Annemiek,

I do have a custom script that will pre-populate a survey with a survey taker's previous response.  This works by passing the response ID through the query string to the survey.  Then the survey taker can look over the information and update if necessary without having to reanswer every question.  The only drawback with the method is that it does not recreate a new response but overwrites the previous one.  Thus, if you want to compare answers over time.  You will need to export the raw data between each round of surveying, as the updates will overwrite the original responses.

To try this, you will need to put the following code on the first page of the survey (Add Action > SurveyGizmo Scripting Control > Add Action):

%%id = sgapiURLValue(“respid”);

if(%%id > 0){
sgapiOpenSurveyResponse(%%id);
}


After completing a response and getting a response ID, pass it into a new survey by appending the survey link from the publish tab with the following query string:

?respid=xxxxxxxx (where xxxxxxxx = the response ID)

The script will actually open up the response and you can see your original answers and update accordingly.  Hope this helps!

9:19
June 30, 2009


Mario

Admin

Boulder, CO

posts 994

Of course, you could just use the sgUID feature as well:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/sur…..-response/

Mario Lurig
Sales Engineer – SurveyGizmo
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