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How to handle individual contacts and distributions?

  • September 6, 2022
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I am continuously adding new contacts to my directory, and I will be using the API to do everything. I am looking for the proper strategy to handle survey link generation for these individuals. I will not be using Qualtrics to send out emails, I have my own process for that.
Would the right way to go about this be to create a distribution for each individual after they are added to the directory? There is only one survey to send out and I don't need to generate it for everyone when a new contact is added. However, looking at the documentation here https://api.qualtrics.com/573e3f0a94888-create-distribution#generate-distribution-links you can only do this for an entire mailing list without sending the survey out. Is there a best practice for this when it comes to individuals?

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  • September 7, 2022

Hi!

I think you cannot do this for individuals using the contact ID, But you can create a sample with the individual and using the sample ID as contact list ID in the request and retreive the link for the single individual in the sample


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  • September 7, 2022

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  • September 7, 2022

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