Hi,
is it somehow possible to prevent that in the responses table the columns "First name", "Last name", and "Email" are taken from the survey participants table? I would like to have participants and responses in different tables.
Thank you very much in advance,
Ralf

manual.limesurvey.org/Participant_settings#Anonymized_responses

Yes, thank you very much for the quick response! I've seen this option, but in certain cases I HAVE to be able to get a connection between the responses and the participants - which will not be possible when I anonymize the responses. Is there a "middle way", meaning not to store both information in one table?
Ralf

Either they are connected or they are not connected. There is no technical middle way like "a little bit connected". Even if they are not stored in the same table, if there is a connection, it is the same thing.

However, if you use tokens and have the name and email in the token table, they are not part of the responses table until you export them together (which you need to mark, they are not exported together by default).

They are displayed in the Limesurvey backend in one table, though. But I don't see a way around this, except using the anonymous option.

The middle ground wouldn't really help, because it gives the impression of anonymity, but at the end you still can connect the persona data with the response data, so this is just whitewashing things, but not really doing anything in terms of privacy.

Participant and Response are not in same table.

Thanks a lot for your answers, I noticed now, too, that the export of the responses does not include participants info per default so I figured that they are stored in different tables after all.
The reason was only to export only responses without information of the participants - because on the limesurvey server the data is save but as soon as I store it on the computer it (and e.g. in Dropbox) I get security issues. But this way it works for me, as I can save the responses locally without personal information.
Cheers,
Ralf