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Hello Qualtrics Community, We've had several of our survey takers have this error - when they are entering into a total sum question, they get the error saying that they have to use whole numbers... Even though they are using whole numbers. Some were using Chrome, some Firefox, and restarting the survey doesn't seem to fix their problem. Does anyone know why this is happening or how to fix it? Thanks, Rebecca

In my Response Mapping, I am mapping to some custom fields, but I keep seeing this error message: "Error. SoapFault exception: [sf:INVALID_TYPE] INVALID_TYPE: sObject type 'permissiontest__c' is not supported. If you are attempting to use a custom object, be sure to append the '__c' after the entity name. Please reference your WSDL or the describe call for the appropriate names." The field shows up in the available fields to map to, but I still get this error message. What's going on?

I'm hoping that someone might have a javascript so that entries in a constant sum question are right-justified, rather than centered in the box? TIA! - Mary

Does anyone know how to get respondent data and survey response data back after a survey is filled out on my website ? Seems like there is an API to create surveys but not get data back in real time.

I am using the below javascript to define an array and retrieve random elements from the array. var COST = ["$400","$500","$600","$700","$800"]; var COST_a1 = COST[Math.floor(Math.random()*COST.length)]; alert (COST_a1) ; /* for debugging */ When I preview the survey, Qualtrics runs this piece of code TWICE. The alert box pops up twice with different values for COST_a1. This is causing issues on another page when I try to capture the value of Cost_a1 using this.setChoiceValue(3,COST_a1); I only need the random value to be generated once. Any guidance on this matter is appreciated. Thank you.

Does anyone have experience implementing an intercept during (ideally at the end of) a Wistia video that is embedded on a website? I'm having trouble finding in the embedded code where the "play/end" controls are. P.S. New to Site Intercept, no idea what I'm looking for but I can't find anything obvious! No tracking, no reference to the video playing,etc.

We are trying to create a Custom Side by Side Question with choice options on both sides and question text at the middle but no luck. i.e. we need 7 columns, with three columns of text in the middle and two columns of choices either side. The choice options are to be grouped per row as the user is expected to only choose one option per row. Attached is the sample screenshot of the question I am trying to achieve. Can someone help please?

Hi I have been using the R API successfully to pull my data in for statistical analysis and reporting. However, I have not used in about 3 months and when I came back to do this work I was unsuccessful. Here are my steps and error. registerOptions(api_token=APIkey, root_url=baseURL) surveys <- getSurveys() surveys This produces the list of surveys table shown in https://api.qualtrics.com/docs/response-exports Survey Table in R | | id | name | ownerId | lastModified | isActive | | --- | ------------------- | -------------- | --------------------- | ------------------- | :---------: | | | SV_0fHnuNimdt3R9pX | Newer Name | UR_123456789012345 2 | 017-05-25T22:15:22Z | TRUE | | | SV_0zSlknmZXhJ4BAx | TestFromURL | UR_123456789012345 2 | 017-05-24T20:26:13Z | FALSE | | | SV_0x1XmEv9pCD2asB | Test | UR_12345678

I am trying to break up a date text string into the year, month, and day, but I just discovered that the date text string can separate the values using either "-" or "/" depending on the source. The script I am using (adopted from a script I got in an earlier thread) will work for one, either/or the other. Is there a way to write a .split statement with an or condition? Below is my code. Imagine that COVERAGE_BEG_DT can be either 01/01/2018 or 01-01-2018 const Coverage_Beg_DT = Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.getEmbeddedData('COVERAGE_BEG_DT'); Coverage_Beg_DTArr = Coverage_Beg_DT.split("/") Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("YOTenure",Coverage_Beg_DTArr[2]) Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("MOTenure",Coverage_Beg_DTArr[0]) Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("DOTenure",Coverage_Beg_DTArr[1])

So when I go to Tools->Salesforce->Trigger and Email Survey I get this view of all my needed Delta Contact information: ! But when I go to Actions->Tasks I get this view and I can no longer see the fields I need: ! What would be the cause of being able to see Delta Contact fields under one view but not the other? I want to build my email from the Actions tab since there I have the ability to set the link to expire after 24 hours.

Hello - I am looking to use embedded data fields in the survey in order to show different color schemes for the survey. Is there a java script that would allow me to say "If embedded data is 'blank1', then show (java script for one color scheme). If embedded data is 'blank2', then (insert java script for second color scheme)."? I currently have the color scheme java script in place, however, I am looking for the ability to implement these "if, then" scenarios. Thanks in advance. -Joseph

Hello everyone :) I am still working on the word completion task where the participants get a new entrybox every 6 seconds. Now, thanks to the community, I was able to implement the custom code to have the entry box preselected. To increase the convinience for my participants even further, I wonder whether it is possible to submit an answer by pressing the "Enter" key on the keyboard (instead of clicking on the arrow with the cursor). Can this be implemented? Thank you Jonas

Hello everyone I want to do a word-completion task. This means participants see a word fragment (e.g. "w_t_r") which they should complete to a full word (e.g. "water"). As I do it currently, I show them the word fragment as text field and below that there is an empty text entry where they should write "water". This is kind of alright (is that the best way?). Now I want to present them only one word every 6 seconds. So what happens is that I have around 35 blocks with each one word fragment and one entry field. Every 6 seconds there is a new fragment automatically. Now what I would love is that the text entry field is preselected. So that basically the participants not have to select the text entry every new block. I was told by support that this might work with a custom code? Any ideas? Thank you Jonas

A lot of my projects involve Custom End of Survey Messages, but will be doing custom emails, and Piped Text Input in styled/HTML Survey Blocks. One of my biggest bottlenecks is the Qualtrics IDE (It is excellent, but I enjoy working on my own, local IDE, Visual Studio Code). Another bottleneck I face is Piped Text Token (i.e. `${e://Field//Total}`). When I run code in my local IDE, and have a Chart.js that takes in an array of embedded fields, in have to swap them in and out to test it locally and then post the code in Qualtrics. I, today, started developing a Transpiler of sorts, as an NPM Package. Copies your code with Piped Text Tokens, and replaces them with sample data. I wanted to get a feel for if you guys would like a copy, or if there is interest so I could package it up and serve it publicly. It takes in three key pieces of data: a Source Directory, an Output Directory, and a list of key-value pairs, the key being the Piped Text Token, and the value being the Sample da

Hi, I have created a survey project and under distributions I clicked compose email and send the email by selecting an individual. The json response for the distribution looks like: { 'meta':{ 'httpStatus':'200 - OK', 'requestId':'aa1a5de9-94e7-4688-fasdfsdf-fsdfasdfasdf' }, 'result':{ 'elements':[ { 'createdDate':'2018-03-15T15:57:04Z', 'headers':{ 'fromEmail':'noreply@qemailserver.com', 'fromName':'test', 'replyToEmail':'test', 'subject':'test' }, 'id':'EMD_sdfasdf', 'message':{ 'libraryId':None, 'messageId':None, 'messageText':None }, 'modifiedDate':'2018-03-15T15:57:20Z', 'organizationId':'fasdfds', 'ownerId':'UR_fsdfasd', 'parentDistributionId':None, 'recipients':{ 'contactId':'ML

From what I've read it seems Qualtrics does not provide display logic options for dates. Can anyone advise re: javascript code that would check the date a survey was being taken against a user-provided date(s). I want to allow survey completion if the date on which the survey is being taken corresponds to +/-7 days of a user-provided date.

Can I create a landing page that lets my respondents know which surveys they have taken so far?

I recently updated my email templates for all of my surveys in 3 languages and it was kind of scary and a total pain. All of them contained some piped text (e.g. client name + some less frequently referenced fields from my relevant Salesforce object) and I also newly added that the emails should come 'from' a team member they've worked with at my company (also from Salesforce) rather than my generic client experience distro. I wish there was some functionality to more easily test that things would pipe in correctly, like I'm able to do--requires some creativity--when sending emails from Marketo. Has anyone found any best practices for testing that things will work correctly outside of triggering surveys in your Salesforce staging environment or uploading fake contact lists to check the mappings? (The latter doesn't even work for the Salesforce-integrated surveys, of course.) I have had some difficulties testing in staging for surveys that I integrated many months back, as the environme

I was wondering if anyone has developed custom CSS or JavaScript to alter the drag and drop question format. I would like to display the items that are dragged horizontally across the top of the page. Alternatively, if that can't be down, I would like to keep the items fixed in their position in the item container when they are unsorted. As it is, their position is dynamic, and as you sort the items that come before it, the items move up. If you place an item back in list, you can place it in any order. I would like every item to have its own place that does not change while it is unsorted on the left hand side of the page. Thanks!

I want to randomly assign a 4-digit ID to every respondent with no repeats (we anticipate ~500 responses). How could I set this up?

! Hi Team, I have created a side by side question. Participants should select radio button for each row . And next column text entry are optional. Could you please help me on this. If i select force response option, the entire question is required response. only first column is mandatory and second column text box is non mandatory. Could you please help me on this. Regards, Sadeesh

Hello Everyone, I have a timer 10 seconds to fill only one feedback question about his/her experience on the interaction with the random person. data is only recorded in Qualtrics only when the user hits the submit button but data is not recording when the user didn't press submit button with in the time period of ten seconds. i wanted to make use of data and want to record the data in Qualtrics even if the user misses the submit button option in ten seconds. does anyone know how to do that with javascript?

My organization has a survey set up and I am trying to create survey distribution (https://api.qualtrics.com/docs/create-survey-distribution). I am not sure what the messageId in the payload should be and where to look for it.

I have been running into similar situations with a few of my customers and wanted to share some of my custom code solutions, with the hopes that others can share theirs as well!

Being a postal website we have certain sections of the site where we get a ton of visitors and therefore a ton of survey responses for our site-wide pop-under customer sat survey (i.e. 9K a month), meanwhile other pages we only get a trickle of responses coming in (i.e. 100 a month). Is there a way to even this out a bit that wouldn't necessarily affect our scoring? The only way I can think of is by setting separate intercepts pointing to the same survey for each of the sections and having their own sample rate dictated. Is there a cleaner/easier way that I'm missing? We're not looking to necessarily have an even rate of distribution but just to lessen the gap a bit. This survey is used for KPI scoring so we are worried anything too drastic might affect our results. Any thoughts or suggestions?