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I started a survey last year not realizing that when you reload a drilldown question with an edited list, it will RECODE all of your values. I have about 60 program specific reports that I am basing off of the value of these codes. Since I plan to use this program monthly for a few years I accepted just updating the filters but unexpectedly I have more changes to the drilldown. To avoid hours of redoing saved filter I am trying to hard code the drill down. I am having decent success but when I click the next button my program name and program number get wiped out of the input. If you can provide any help with how to prevent that from happening I’d appreciate it. Otherwise I have a work around where I save the program number in the Embedded data and base my filters on Embedded data instead of Question data. That is okay but it takes some working and fingers crossing to get this set up BEFORE having data that chose a particular program number - a requirement as I am showing people their

Good morning Qualtrics Community -  The default color of Qualtrics’ standard error messages is dark red. Which when used on a dark background make it hard to read and definitely fail any accessibility checks. How can I change the color of the messages? When I spoke to support, they indicated that it would be through custom code and to reach out to the community.  I cannot change the background color as that is our brand color scheme.  Qualtrics really should have this as a general option. 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to modify the container or the option prompts when using the matrix table carousel option? I want to use a 6 option prompt (horizontal position) but it cuts off and enables a scroll bar.

We need to get the list the surveys saved in a particular folder for processing those data. But we didn't get any API ‘s to fetch those surveys in that particular folder in the Qualtrics documentation. Is there any way to do this? 

I want to exchange data between ServiceNow and Qualtrics and I want to understand the best way to do this. Is using the API token a secured way to do this or should we create a local user/Service account to authorize.

Hi all, I developed a survey that used the Search Directory Contacts call to retrieve contact details based on a filter combination using name, email and mailing list. For the past couple of weeks that worked 100% fine.As of this week I noticed this call no longer works for me, returning a 403 - Forbidden error (Access denied to TA entity). According to Qualtrics support this is actually the intended behavior, as I'm not supposed to be able to search the entire (brand) directory. While I get the logic there, I find it extremely strange that it used to work at all than in the past weeks (I changed nothing in the code), and haven't been able to figure out why this changed. Other Directory calls (create and get contacts) do still work.As I understand it, as a (non-admin) user, I should be using Mailing List calls to get the contact details, but as far as I can see, there are no equivalent Mailing List calls that allow you to filter/search by fields. The only option seems to be to get the

Dear community,The following script from https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/getting-started/ does not seem to be working in my survey. I am very new to Java and HTML and was hoping you could you help me figure out why it's not working. Thank you very much for your help!In the question itself, I have included the following code in HTML:<div><canvas id="myChart"></canvas></div> I have added the following code the the header in HTML:<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/chart.js"></script> To the question JSS, I have included the following code:  const ctx = document.getElementById('myChart');  new Chart(ctx, {    type: 'bar',    data: {      labels: ['Red', 'Blue', 'Yellow', 'Green', 'Purple', 'Orange'],      datasets: [{        label: '# of Votes',        data: [12, 19, 3, 5, 2, 3],        borderWidth: 1      }]    },    options: {      scales: {        y: {          beginAtZero: true        }      }    }  }); 

Q1 is a multiple select question.Once the question is answered, I want that question and it’s responses to remain on the screen as a reference for the questions ahead, without the respondent being able to change the initial response.I tried doing this by creating multiple copies of Q1, putting them on top of all questions without page breaks and disabling the checkboxes using JS.However, this seems really inefficient and I was also unable to set the options selected in the original Q1 as default in all the copies. Could anyone help out with either the overall task or just setting the previously selected choices as default for all copied questions. Thanks

I have a matrix table that shows the scales going horizontally negative (left) to positive (right), and when these change to an accordion layout on a mobile, the scale go vertically negative (top) to positive (bottom). Is there a way to reverse the order on the accordion layout so that they go positive (top) to negative (bottom), without needing to make the separate questions for mobile users. This is best practice for vertical scales, so I'd like to know if there is a way to do this please? Thanks Lisa

Hello everyone,I'm designing an experiment where participants will watch a video and then answer related questions. To ensure accurate results, I need to disable the following video controls:Playback speed adjustment Rewatching (seeking backward) Skipping forwardCan anyone suggest how to achieve this?Thanks in advance!

I have a media file that I want participants to listen to at one point in my Qualtrics survey. I see they have the option to change the playback speed. Is there a way to disable that?

I’m running into an issue for the font size for the scale points on my matrix questions are smaller for the mobile version than for the desktop version. How do I increase the scale point font size in matrix questions for the mobile version. On the desktop (looks good):On mobile (looks bad): Layout: FlatGeneral Question Text: 18General Answer Text: 16Current Custom CSS in “Look and Feel - Style”:.Skin .q-matrix .answered-indicator span {font-size: 14px!important;}.Skin .Matrix table th{font-size: 18px;}.Skin .q-matrix .table-cell {font-size: 18px!important;}Any help is greatly appreciated!

I am using a six-item Likert scale for a total number of 16 questions. When I used the “repeat headers-all” function, I noticed that the header was not shown for the last question. (See attached)  Is there anyway to display the header for the last question? 

Hi all, I was wondering if could please get help with the below.For context, I have a question Q1 which is a multi select question asking why people want to go to TAFE. I then use the carry forward function to pipe in the answers that were selected in Q1 into Q2. Q2 is a rank order question using text boxes where respondents have to enter in a number (rank) for each of the reasons they go to TAFE.If a respondent only selects one answer in Q1, then only one answer is carried forward into Q2. Is there a way so if a respondent only selects one answer in Q1, then it automatically enters the number 1 into the text box in Q2, and then proceeds them to the next question? I understand this might be possible using Javascript but I haven’t been able to get something that works. Any assistance here would be greatly appreciated!Thanks,Christian

I have a file containing U.S. universities, and the state each school is in.  I want users to choose their university’s state from a drop-down list.  The next question would ask the user what their university is.  I want this question to use autocomplete and I want the state they choose in the previous question to limit the choices they see.  For instance, if someone chooses “Kansas”, the autocomplete question would show schools from Kansas only (drawn from the file I described above).  I don’t want to use drill down because that would necessitate 50 different files and I prefer the autocomplete method of entry for such a large list.

Is it possible to delete an extension from the developer portal?

How can I show a responsive dialog with site-intercept based on time spent on one page instead of site. Time spent and Time focused provided in the intercept logic is for the site. But I'd like to trigger the intercept if the user has spent certain amount of time on the page.

Hi! I have a WD integration i did one test bringing them into the CX directory first, and then i re run the integration to bring them into the global directory but i have a gap of around 1000 contacts, i tried to check on the information of EX and CX everything match but i can not find any evident   field that may be generating this issue. Any ideas of where should i check? Thanks! 😊

Hi: I have a drill down question with two components totaling over 5,000 options. I want to display subsequent questions only if certain options are selected in the prior drill down.I have tried two approaches, neither of which have worked.I tried to simply use display logic based on a question, but my drill down question doesn’t appear in the list of usable questions once I’m in display logic. I tried setting two embedded variables in the survey flow, one for each component of the drill down, as follows:state=${q://QID8_1/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoices}mun=${q://QID8_2/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoices}Then, for the relevant subsequent question I used display logic for an embedded variable and entered “state” as well as the scores I wanted to select respondents into viewing the question.That didn’t work either. Any ideas?

HiWe are trying to connect with successfactors and run the workflow we are getting the below errorMOD_1 - An unexpected error occurred. Please contact Qualtrics support.",pls let me know in case of any helpRegardsKamesh

Hi everyone, I implemented a canvas in my Qualtrics survey for people to sketch on and I was expecting people could upload their sketch by clicking a button. Currently I figured out how to attach the current the sketch but I didn’t find a way to finish the uploading process. Is that even doable in Qualtrics? Thank you!

I want to preform something similar to this:  (found in https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/srm/article/view/5813 by Dr. Tarek El Baghal) but for a matrix question (meaning I have a set of regular behaviors I want to analyze, that may or not be present, and I want to find their frequency using something as objective as possible rather than something vague or too many questions that’ll make the survey excessively tedious (which is what I considered using the idea found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4902154/ of using multiple questions, piped of course, to ask about frequency of a behavior).

Hi,I'm creating a Delphi survey and using a matrix table in Qualtrics. I want to display the mean response from a previous questionnaire in a column titled 'Previous Rating.' Does anyone know how this could be achieved?I’ve made an example of the kind of table I'm trying to create.Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

I know this sounds simple, but I’ve spent three hours trying to figure this out… Can anyone help?

Is it possible to take a Text Set from the embedded data (via contacts) and populate several choices based on that data? For example, let's say a piece of Embedded Data is a set:favoritePies: Apple, Pumpkin, Cherryand another respondent hasfavoritePies: Banana, Rhubarb, PeachThen I present a multiple-choice question that populates options from these text sets, so each respondent see different options.When I try to pipe text like this:${e://Field/favoritePies}The choice shows one choice with a comma separated list of all pies for that person. I feel like there needs to be a loop or some string split to create multiple options for each person.Thanks in advance.