Hi,

I have a survey which evaluates several processes and I need the same person to fill the survey once for several of those processes.

I've created several tokens with the same e-mail (the difference is in attribute 1, which refers to which process the person is evaluating) and that works fine.

But then, if the person starts the evaluation of the first process (using the first token), then completes it succesfully and then, tries to start the evaluation of the second process (using the second token), the system will tell him that his answers have been save succesfully, but he hasn't even started the second survey!

The problem is cookie related (if I manually delete all cookies after finishing the first survey and starting the second one, everything works flawlessly).

I've already set "Use Cookies?" and "Enable Token-based answers persistence?" to No (even though that last one shouldn't affect this).

What am I doing wrong? What's the correct configuration/procedure for this scenario?

I am using LimeSurvey Version 1.71+ (5370).

Thank you very much,

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Jeffrey Esquivel S.

Try adding "&newtest=Y" to the invitation URL. Depending on your survey settings this might work.

Hi Mazi,

Thank you very much for your quick reply. I don't fully understand what effects the variable newtest has, could you elaborate a little please?

Also, I was thinking that it should be possible to add some code at the end of the survey so that it "cleans" the cookies it left behind (for my specific case, of course). What do you think about such a change?

Thanks,

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Jeffrey Esquivel S.

Hi Jeffry,
I have really the same problem and it's almost very hot.
Please let me know if you find a nice solution to this problem.

As Mazi suggests on the invitation, if I'm not wrong I have to add &newtest=Y.

{SURVEYURL}&newtest=Y

Is it grammatically correct ? But is it enough ???

It means that when you use the link the cookies are deleted. Is it correct ?
Many thanks
Giovanni

Out of curiosity, and that I find survey creation interesting, why not allow saves and present each process as a separate question group in the survey?

Then if your respondent has to quit the survey, they can save their progress and come back later to finish.

Also you would have one place to cull your data from, rather than several.

Hi chiggy,

In my specific case, not every person has to evaluate all the processes or the same processes and I had no way of knowing beforehand which person will evaluate which processes.

I guess there is other methods to do this, but right now, I already have everything set up and approved (and it is kind of urgent, so re-designing the survey is not a good solution).

Greetings,

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Jeffrey Esquivel S.

Hi Giovanny,

In the end, using "&newtest=Y" did the trick for this time (you loose the ability for a person to "resume" where they left off, but it is just a nice feature, not a requirement for me).

Beware that using "{SURVEYURL}&newtest=Y" in your invitation will not work (if you're using HTML invites) because the last part will not be included in the link. To fix this I had to go to the code (admin/tokens.php) and add the "&newtest=Y" directly to rest of SURVEYURL.

I think the best way to enable scenarios like this is to have "multiple sessions" support in LimeSurveys, instead of current single session. Anyway, I'm not sure there is enough people having this "multiple surveys per user" requirement as to be worth the effort.

Greetings,

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Jeffrey Esquivel S.

Jeffrey, can you add your solutions to our "workarounds" section in the manual? It's a wiki, everyone can edit it and this would be very helpful to other users.
There is a similiar section which you can extend.