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Save data from one survey and use in the second one - embedded data?

I am wondering if there is a way to save answers from one survey and use it to prepopulate the second survey with it. The second survey would be taken by a different person.
An employee fills survey/form A and when they hit submit, an email is sent to someone in HR that a form has been submitted. The HR person then needs to fill out a second form/survey B that needs some data from survey A which was filled by the employee. We are hoping form B could get some data prepopulated from form A, so the HR person does not have to enter the data again manually.
I am new to Qualtrics. I did some looking online and it seems like piping the data in the URL only works if the first survey is redirected to the second one and is taken by the same person. I also saw some people post about saving the data as embedded fields and saving to a contact list to be able to reuse it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
An employee fills survey/form A and when they hit submit, an email is sent to someone in HR that a form has been submitted. The HR person then needs to fill out a second form/survey B that needs some data from survey A which was filled by the employee. We are hoping form B could get some data prepopulated from form A, so the HR person does not have to enter the data again manually.
I am new to Qualtrics. I did some looking online and it seems like piping the data in the URL only works if the first survey is redirected to the second one and is taken by the same person. I also saw some people post about saving the data as embedded fields and saving to a contact list to be able to reuse it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Best answer by Akdashboard
@Neelams - All you need to do in Survey 1 is build a personalized URL by appending the survey answers to the email in the way I described above. Note - I prefer to do this in the survey flow and set the URL as embedded data so that I can easily check if something doesn't work.
For Survey 2 you need to first add an embedded data block to the the very top of the survey flow. Second, in the embedded data block, enter the name of the data fields that you set to append to the URL (this tells Qualtrics what data to pull in to the survey). Third, use default choices and piped text to pre-load the values entered in the first survey.
Step-by-step instructions:
Survey 1 (Employee's Survey):
1. Copy the anonymous link from the distribution tab.
2. Go to the survey flow and add and embedded data block after the last block of questions.
3. Create an embedded data field called "HR_URL".
4. Set HR_URL equal to anonymousURL?Q1={piped answer from Q1}&Q2={piped answer from Q2}&Q3={piped answer from Q3} (etc.)
5. Replace the old URL that goes to HR with the new HR_URL by using piped text in your email trigger. Pipe in embedded data HR_URL.
Survey 1 - DONE
Survey 2 (HR's Survey):
1. Add an embedded data block to the very top of the survey flow.
2. In the embedded data block, add embedded data Q1, Q2, Q3, (etc.)
3. Go to each question and use piped text and default choices to pre-populate the answers from Survey 1. Note - this will only work with text entry question. If the question is not text entry, then you will need to pipe the survey 1 answer into the question text (i.e. What is your favorite color? Employee answer: {piped text from Q_n_})
Make sense?
View originalFor Survey 2 you need to first add an embedded data block to the the very top of the survey flow. Second, in the embedded data block, enter the name of the data fields that you set to append to the URL (this tells Qualtrics what data to pull in to the survey). Third, use default choices and piped text to pre-load the values entered in the first survey.
Step-by-step instructions:
Survey 1 (Employee's Survey):
1. Copy the anonymous link from the distribution tab.
2. Go to the survey flow and add and embedded data block after the last block of questions.
3. Create an embedded data field called "HR_URL".
4. Set HR_URL equal to anonymousURL?Q1={piped answer from Q1}&Q2={piped answer from Q2}&Q3={piped answer from Q3} (etc.)
5. Replace the old URL that goes to HR with the new HR_URL by using piped text in your email trigger. Pipe in embedded data HR_URL.
Survey 1 - DONE
Survey 2 (HR's Survey):
1. Add an embedded data block to the very top of the survey flow.
2. In the embedded data block, add embedded data Q1, Q2, Q3, (etc.)
3. Go to each question and use piped text and default choices to pre-populate the answers from Survey 1. Note - this will only work with text entry question. If the question is not text entry, then you will need to pipe the survey 1 answer into the question text (i.e. What is your favorite color? Employee answer: {piped text from Q_n_})
Make sense?
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