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Hi, and thank you very much for your help!
I'm wondering if it's possible to embed data from the previous respondent in a survey. In particular, I'll be asking participants to do some action during a survey, like donating money to an organization, and I'd like to be able to tell them whether the respondent before them chose to donate or not. Is there any way to somehow reference and embed that information on a prior respondent? I know how to embed a respondent's own answers from earlier in the survey and how to link participants to an overall results page, but I'm not sure how to reference just one prior participant's answers during the survey.
Thank you very much! Any insights appreciated!

We would need external webservice API which will store last respondents choice and send the same if requested.

As long as you only need to reference only the immediate previous response, you could accomplish this using a dummy contact.

  1. Create a contact list and manually add a contact. Set the first name, last name and email address as something descriptive for you (e.g., Previous Response, previous@response.com). You should also set initial values for whatever embedded data you'd like to pass to the next participant's survey (e.g., organization, donated).

  2. Create embedded data at the beginning of your survey flow to define first name, last name and email to match the contact you created. Also create fields to match the information you'll be importing, but leave the values to be defined.

  3. Add a contact list authenticator. Pre-fill the first name, last name and email with your embedded data fields. Use the "Capture Respondent Identifying Info" section to import your information.

  4. At the end of your survey, use a workflow or contact list trigger to update your dummy contact with the information from the current response.

Thank you both for your replies here! I appreciate it, and I'm sorry for my slow reply. We've changed our plans a bit, and I think we would want the flexibility to reference previous responses other than the immediate previous one, so mmoore I think your approach might not work here, unfortunately.
Shashi Thanks for this! I'm not so familiar with what you're proposing. Could you give me a little bit more detail on what you have in mind? Is there a particular external web service you're thinking of?

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