Problem using different embedded data values for multiple distribution to same user

sasham5 · 2023-02-17T00:34:12+00:00

I need to create and launch personalized email survey distributions, customized by my parameters, to my users via API integration. The same user may need to receive a different version of the same survey at different times. For example, after a certain event happens on my side, they need to receive a Qualtrics distribution email with survey A with embedded data parameter P = 1, and later after another event on my side, they'll receive an email with survey A with embedded parameter P = 2. Even if that user only opens the first email after receiving the 2nd email, I need the survey to open with P=1 from the 1st email, and P=2 from the 2nd email. I created both survey and Qualtrics distribution email that depends (and varies) based on the value of P.The process I wanted to use is:a) Create a mailing list: https://api.qualtrics.com/3f633e4cea6cd-create-mailing-listb) Create a contact in that mailing list with P=1:https://api.qualtrics.com/fc43c25b3f3c3-create-contact-in-mailing-listc) Create an email distribution for that contact:https://api.qualtrics.com/573e3f0a94888-create-distributionLater, I would do the same thing, creating a new mailing list with a new contact in it with P=2 (Note that the contact in this case *has the same email address*, since it's the same user I'm sending the survey to.)What I saw what I did that, is that embedded data for that contact gets OVERWRITTEN (P=2) (regardless that I was trying to create that contact multiple times in multiple "mailing lists"), and when my user clicks on the survey link from the FIRST distribution email, the survey that loads is the version that corresponds to P=2, not P=1.I went further and tried to "override" the survey link in the distribution email by making it be ${l://SurveyURL}?P=[value_I_needed], but that didn't seem to work - it looks like Qualtrics automatically takes the value for P from the *latest value stored for that contact*, and ignores the value for that embedded data field when it's supplied as a URL parameter. (That's really not the behavior I would expect!)Because of this, it looks like there is no way to use email distribution by Qualtrics for my use case.Am I missing a way?Thank you.

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