Once upon a time (at least as of June 2019), we were allowed to simply use piped text for the 'Redirect to a URL' option in the Survey Termination settings. So I could simply enter ${e://Field/ReturnURL} as my 'Redirect to a URL' setting (where ReturnURL is an embedded data value storing a URL to return the respondent to). This stopped working as of July 2019 on the Survey Termination settings but was still allowed on the End of Survey settings in the survey flow. Simply being able to use an embedded data value as the 'Redirect to a URL' setting is extremely useful.



I have users coming to the same surveys from varying sites. I use the ReturnURL embedded data field to tell me the site a user is coming from and where I want to redirect them to once they have submitted the survey. My ReturnURL may look like:

`https://[some host]/router/?UserMode=normal&AppSource=localv1&routeIn=[some survey ID]&rid=${e://Field/ResponseID}&sid=${e://Field/SurveyID}`



Notice that I also include piped text references to the surveyID and responseID which are automatically filled in when the survey is submitted so the site the respondent is returning to has a reference to the responseID of the completed survey (useful for API calls where there are delays in getting responses back from Qualtrics). The ReturnURL can also be used for 'testing' a production survey without adding any extra fields to the survey. So I could have one testing ReturnURL with query parameter AppSource=testing and another with AppSource=production, etc. so that when the data is being analyzed I can ignore the responses with ReturnURL containing AppSource=testing.



My point is, Qualtrics please do not do away with piped text 'Redirect to a URL' settings because you would be removing a practical and effective option and I would suggest 'fixing' the 'Redirect to a URL' option in the Survey Termination settings to allow piped-text-only once again.