Hi, I'm a newbie and trying to figure out how to or what form to use when I need to create a survey where it's possible to retake the survey and save the new responses (not override the old ones), but still use the same link I initially sent to the participants.As a short background, I'm using Qualtrics for a different way to gather information from specific managers on what their hiring needs are, which usually changes and they have to input again, and I have to store those and keep the old ones.I tried using Lifecycle, because of the authenticator and being able to validate Participant information. But I'm stuck in allowing multiple retakes, because I need to have an anonymous link, which I'm thinking is a link where they can just bookmark on their browsers when they have to return back to it. I'm looking at other posts in the community, if I can use Multiple Completes in Email Survey Invitations, I need to use Survey, but I can't upload participants to have an authenticator.Appreciate the help!

Do you need to be able to link each individuals' responses? E.g., if Person A took the survey 3 times, do you need to know exactly which 3 responses belong to Person A? If you DO NOT need to know exactly which person provided each survey response, then the anonymous link is a great option. Make sure you go into your Survey Options and turn off the "Prevent Multiple Submissions" setting so they can take the survey more than once. If you DO want to track exactly who said what, then you'll want to add some more information to that link. There are a few ways to do that. But I'd probably suggest adding embedded data to an anonymous link. A few points on that method:In your Survey Flow, you'll add a new element of embedded data. Call the field something like "user." You'll be defining the field in your survey distribution URL, so don't set a value for it in your Survey Flow.Get your anonymous link from the Distributions tab. Tack on ?user=XXX to the end of it. That XXX would be replaced with the actual value, unique to each respondent. If you want to tack on multiple fields, like "user" and "department", then you'd add ?user=XXX&department=YYY Make sure whatever you add to your URL is exactly matched in your Survey Flow. You shouldn't write "department" in your Survey Flow and "dept" in your distribution link.An easy way to fill out the "XXX" and "YYY" for each of your users is to create an Excel spreadsheet. Here's a quick example where my user ID is in Column A and department in Column B. I put a formula in Column C to create a unique link for each row. You could even use cell references for the column headings and field names, if you wanted to. You can find more information about embedded data on this support pageIt'd be pretty easy to add a new person to this list, if you ever needed to do that - you'd just add their information to a new row and drag your formula down to get their unique link. You could also set some logic in your survey flow to automatically screen out (not record a response for) any respondent that does NOT have a value set for those embedded data fields. Alternatively, you might decide to send out the survey via an Email within Qualtrics. In the Distributions tab, select "Email." Again, you'll need to have your contact list uploaded to Qualtrics. When you're composing your email, be sure to click on "Show Advanced Options," and change the link type to "Multiple completes." Here's a support page with more information.You don't want to use the "Personal links" feature within the Distributions tab, because those can only be once. Again - no matter what you do, you'll want to make sure you've turned off "Prevent multiple submissions" in your Survey Options.

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