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Combining Essay Box Survey Content to Dashboards and Reports

  • July 10, 2025
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Hi everyone,

This is a question that will likely require to different implementations.

I have text box / essay box questions within my survey that I’d like to combine into my Dashboard Reports, and the Survey Reports. Reason - I want to output the full guest survey result as one row of output. I know in survey flow you can create Embedded Data and combine piped text, but the formatting is limited for output. I’ve tried extra spaces, multiple <br> elements, and the combined text is still a run on of results, rather than paragraph breaks.

This combined information is more important for the Survey / Reports, as I want to be able to combine each individual survey submission to start with the survey submission first name, then date, then the 3 open text fields, so that it is easier for our Guest Services team to see the submissions via a weekly automated report.

Hope this makes sense. Any help/suggestions is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Aaron

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  • jbk
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  • July 11, 2025

you can try the concat feature in the field editor.

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    Thanks. Do you know if there is something we can use to add a line break within the delimiter?

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    • jbk
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    • July 15, 2025

    No, that’s not possible.

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    • Rod_Pestell
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    • July 29, 2026

    Hi ​@sunpeaksaaron,

    Perhaps you’ve found a solution already as this thread is a little old but as a suggestion, you could use a helper field with <br> in it and then you concatenate that aswell as the other fields but then the delimiter would then need to be a silent character (eg. a space).  Hence you might need other helper fields to place the delimiter where you need it. You could setup what you need in the survey flow more easily when you add the value to an embedded field but then you’d have the need to populate all past data if the survey has run.  There are other ways to do this via workflow tasts / api calls but it starts getting complex then.

     

    Hope that help you or someone else reading this! 

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