Extracting text string from URL

Hey Vincent, thanks so much for this suggestion! I can’t believe neither our implementation partner nor Qualtrics support suggested this….

This seems to work!

It caused another small issue (I only want the first part of the parameter, but it adds another part with ‘%26’ that is present sometimes ) 

Technically I only want the part that is underlined, not what follows, so if you happen to have any advice for this, please let me know. 

However, this is already great, so thank you VERY MUCH! 

Hi ​@Linda S. 

I’m not too sure why it would appear. “%26” corresponds to the URL-Encoded “&”, that is normally used when you don’t want it to be a parameter separator.

Example:

https://example.com?food=meal&category=fish&chips&price=10

would give these parameters:

food = meal
category = fish
chips = (empty)
price = 10

and

https://example.com?food=meal&category=fish%26chips&price=10

would give those:

food = meal
category = fish&chips
price = 10

I’ve never seen it be captured by the URL Parameter ED in a web intercept.

Another route you could try would be to capture the Current Page URL as you did at first, and then parse and store it with custom javascript in your survey’s first question.

Something like this:

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function () {

	let currentURL = '${e://Field/__js_currentPageURL}';
	let params = new URLSearchParams(currentURL);
	let parsedPNR = params.get('PNR');
	Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setJSEmbeddedData('parsedPNR', parsedPNR);

});

Hi ​@Linda S. 

I’m not too sure why it would appear. “%26” corresponds to the URL-Encoded “&”, that is normally used when you don’t want it to be a parameter separator.

Example:

https://example.com?food=meal&category=fish&chips&price=10

would give these parameters:

food = meal
category = fish
chips = (empty)
price = 10

and

https://example.com?food=meal&category=fish%26chips&price=10

would give those:

food = meal
category = fish&chips
price = 10

I’ve never seen it be captured by the URL Parameter ED in a web intercept.

 

Another route you could try would be to capture the Current Page URL as you did at first, and then parse and store it with custom javascript in your survey’s first question.

Something like this:

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function () {

	let currentURL = '${e://Field/__js_currentPageURL}';
	let params = new URLSearchParams(currentURL);
	let parsedPNR = params.get('PNR');
	Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setJSEmbeddedData('parsedPNR', parsedPNR);

});

 

Thank you for the explanation and the code - I was looking for something just like this. Much appreciated!