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How can I tell which channel my anonymous survey link was completed in?

  • December 30, 2025
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I created a survey with an anonymous link. The survey link was sent to our communications department. THEY distributed the survey link in various ways (we did not use Qualtrics distribution).

1) Emailed anonymous survey link to a customer list 

2) Put the anonymous link on our website 

3) Distributed the QR code for the link at a function etc. 

Is there way to tell how many people answered the survey in each of the 3 ways above?

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InessaG
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  • December 31, 2025

Not at this point. The way to address this next time is to attach an embedded data field to the URL used for each channel: ….?Distribution_Channel=Website, etc.

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-flow/standard-elements/embedded-data/#SettingValuesFromTheSurveyURL

 

And add the embedded data field into your Survey Flow to capture it when the respondent clicks into the link.

https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/survey-flow/standard-elements/embedded-data/#CreatingAnEmbeddedDataElement