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You are not authorized to resume this session

  • January 12, 2026
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A participant on a contact list has reported that he could not start my survey.  (I set authentication in the survey.)  He received an error message: “You are not authorized to resume this session”, and claimed that he hasn’t started the survey successfully because he encountered this error when he first logged into Qualtrics. He tried a few more time, and still got the same message, even when he used InPrivate window. 

The survey has been launched last Friday to 20+ people, so far this participant is the first one who reported the error. 

Anyone has an idea to sort this out? Thanks a lot. 

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arunxmarchitect
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@Sarahsiu_HKU ,

could you please share a screenshot of the Survey Flow?

Also, is this an anonymous survey, or are the participants authenticated in the survey?

This will help narrow down what might be causing the issue.

Thanks,
Arun