Hello, We recently added a new Embedded Data field to our survey, and I am looking for a way to backfill the values for our historical surveys. The new embedded field is employee names and will vary from survey to survey. Does anyone know if there a way I can mass edit/backfill embedded data into historical surveys? If so, can you point me in the right direction on how to get it done? I am newer to Qualtrics. Thanks!

Hi Kaizen_Wizard,I’m afraid it’s not possible to edit/backfill embedded datain a user-friendly and effortless way (I was also as surprised as you are when I discovered this).There are two ways you can get this done, one directly on the Qualtrics Platform and another outside of it:Directly on Qualtrics Platform: Download all the survey responses you want to update and manually Update the embedded data you need. Then Delete those same responses within Qualtrics and Reupload their updated counterparts into Qualtrics. Keep in mind they will be reuploaded with a different response_id and recorded_date.Through the Qualtrics API:There is a specific set of API calls available for this exactpurpose. Here is the documentation:https://api.qualtrics.com/2ced5de7dc638-start-an-update-embedded-data-job. Documentation states that each job are limited in size to 250 thousand responseIds, so it’s more than suitable for executing mass backfills.Source: My personal experience as I’m working on designing and setting up an API-based periodic process for updating embedded data based on external-to-Qualtricsdatasince we need to stop doing it by downloading-updating-deleting-reuploading method due to the significant risk of human error that comes along with it.

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