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Append Information to the URL

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Step-By-Step

Information can be passed between surveys by appending information onto the url of the second survey link. This information can then be captured with the data from the second survey by redirecting respondents at the end of the first survey. This option is useful if you are wanting to distribute the survey initially to a panel and then redirect the respondent automatically to a second survey link while still attaching the panel information to their responses.

For information on appending data (embedded data) to the end of the survey link, see the Survey Link section of the Embedded Data page.

To pass information between surveys:
  1. Append the link for the second survey with the information you would like to carry forward to the second survey.
    1. First decide what information you would like to carry forward. This might be information that is already set as embedded data or you might want to carry forward the answer to a specific question in the first survey and save it as embedded data with the second survey.
    2. Generate the piped text codes for this information through the piped text tab.
    3. Append the link to the second survey with the piped text. To do this, Add an ampersand (&) at the end, the name of the embedded data field, and an equal sign (=), then put in the piped text code.
      For example:
      www.qualtrics.com/surveyurl&embeddedData=${e://Field/embeddedData}
    4. If you want to carry forward static data, you will not append with a piped text code. Instead, insert the value you would always like carried forward. Visit the Embedded Data page for more information on appending a link.

    Note that you can append more than one piece of information to the URL, just as before, by adding an ampersand (&), the embedded data field name, an equals sign (=), and either the information or the piped text code. You can also use a different name for the embedded data field here if you want it to be named differently in the second survey. From the example above, if you wanted it to be named 1stSurvey, you could do so:

    www.qualtrics.com/surveyurl&1stSurvey=${e://Field/embeddedData}

  2. Once you are done appending the survey link, copy the link and paste it into the Redirect to URL option in Survey Options of the first survey.
  3. Insert an embedded data element in the survey flow of the second survey to capture the Embedded Data.
    1. In the second survey, click on Edit Survey and Survey Flow.
    2. Click Add a New Element Here and select the Embedded Data Element.
    3. Type in the embedded data fields that you have appended onto the End of Survey link you used in the redirect.
    4. Click Save Flow.

    The data you have carried forward from the first survey to the second will now show up in the downloaded data of the results for the second survey.