Hi all, I’ve run into an issue, and I contacted support, and I’m not sure that there’s a good work around here - but I figured I’d use this as a last effort! 

Previously, my team and I used a “trick” when we wanted to send a mailing first, then follow up with reminder emails to our participants. 

Before, here’s what we would do: 

1. Import the contact list 
2. Create a new email distribution and set the date for several years in advance so that the emails did not actually send 
3. Download this distribution to get the individual links, create short links, and send out a physical mailing. 
4. Since the individual links were tracked through the distribution, we were then able to identify who still needed followed-up with. 

Unfortunately, this no longer works with some of the new platform updates. I have tried several alternative ideas: 

1. I originally thought I could send an email and replace the individual links with the personal links, but that does not work 
2. I can send an email with an anonymous link and add authentication, but then I can’t track / follow up with participants easily. 

Does anyone have any other ideas I might try?? I want to avoid two versions of the link so participants don’t get confused or complete the survey twice, and I would ideally like to be able to send the reminder emails through Qualtrics.