Hi,
I need to be able to insert a participant's answer to a question in a previous survey. I'm running into a few problems:

1) It seems very hard to actually insert the {INSERTANS:123X4X5} code. Pushing the "LimeSurvey replacement field properties" didn't show it, so I ended up having to insert a dummy field, switching to Source view, then edit it. (So maybe I'm doing something wrong).

2) It doesn't work anyway. I did this:

- participants self-register for survey #1, complete the survey, get a token.
- I selected one of their email addresses, created an entry in the token table for survey #2, then manually copy-pasted the token from survey #1
- invited the participant
- participant logs in, but the question shows up like this:

Your answer last time: INSERTANS:751966X3X4

(The INSERTANS bit is in red text on a brown background with a red border, with mouseover text "Undefined variable").

Is what I'm trying to do definitely possible? Where am I going wrong?

Also, I can't see any way to launch the expression manager? I'm using 2.00+, Build 121121.

You cannot use INSERTANS to access answers from other surveys.

Solutions may be:

1) Place the answer(s) in the token table and then use {TOKEN:ATTRIBUTE_1}

2) Prefilling survey answers using the survey URL

Thanks for that. I've managed to make Solution 2 work, so I think my final workflow ends up like this:

1) Create and run survey #1 as normal (users self register, create tokens, etc)
2) Create survey #2:
- new tokens table
- extended attribute for every answer you want to reuse from survey #1
- to refer to a participant's previous answer, you insert {TOKEN:ATTRIBUTE_4}
- to pre-fill an answer, you add this (in "source" mode):
<script>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("#answer168948X4X5").text('{TOKEN:ATTRIBUTE_4}');
});
</script>

where "168948" is survey #2's id, 4 is the group id, and 5 is the question ID.
3) Export answers from survey #1
4) Export the (blank) tokens table from survey #1 as CSV, to get the header structure.
5) Use Excel magic to populate the CSV file in 4 with answers from 3
6) Import the freshly populated CSV file as tokens for survey #2
7) Activate the survey, send out invitations, hurray!

The workflow is a little bit messy, but it doesn't involve modifying any code, so I'm happy.

(I haven't actually tested steps 3, 4, 5 and 6 - but that should work, right?)

Yep, that should do the trick.

I'm sure that you could do some PHP magic to automate steps 3-6 but, sadly, I'm not strong in PHP.