For our survey we are paying a research company to send us respondents, but they require that an "OTX ID" be passed back through their system through redirects so that each respondent is associated with an individual code that will inform the company whether they completed the survey. Has anyone done this before? Do I use tokens perhaps?

Thanks!

You will use the panel integration feature. You save their ID in a question and you pass it on through the end URL (also for quota, etc.).

I don't see that option under settings. Is it maybe because our university is still using version 1.92?

exactly. This is a newer feature.

For older versions it is a bit more complicated and will need some Javascript if I recall right. There should be some information in the workaround section of the manual.

Basically you need to pass the ID as a variable via the survey URL, read it into a hidden question, then in the end URL include it as a variable to the link your panel provider is providing you. There should be a few older posts in the forum about this (passthrough variables, endurl, etc.)

Thanks, I looked up the PASSTHRU values system and it seems to be working just fine.

I'm having a related problem now: even though the redirects appear to be successful, I can't seem to read the OTX IDs into a hidden question. As suggested I looked up the problem and found this previous thread: www.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-this-w...of-a-url-in-the-data . Therefore I created a hidden short free text question called "ID" on the first page, went to the "Question" source and copied in:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">

$(document).ready(function() {

// Hide the question
$('#questionID').hide();

// Get the URL param
var otx_id = getURLParameter('otx_id');

// Load the hidden question
$('#questionID input.text').val(otx_id);
});

</script>

However looking at the responses I just see an empty column. I emailed our university IT and they told me that "the option "Filter HTML for XSS" is already disabled globally on every survey so there is no need to try to turn it off". I'm not sure what else I need to do in order to get this to work - any ideas?

Thanks!

How did you hide the "hidden" question? Via CSS/Javascript or in the advanced settings? Because if you hide it in the advanced settings the question does not appear in the source code, thus javascript can not include the code into the question.

I hid it in the advanced settings. Could you possibly link me to how to hide it the proper way? Thanks!!

Oh, I guess the Javascript hide is already included in the above code. I'll try simply unhiding it in the general settings and see if that works.

I returned the general settings to normal, but for some reason the question isn't hidden on the opening page even though $('#questionID').hide(); is in the script.

I think in your script you need to subsitute "questionID" manually with the question ID. There should be some scripts that take this question ID automatically. I am no Javascript expert though.

If you look at the original post "You can load it into a hidden short-text question. Replace "QQ" with the short-text question ID."

But this post is 4 years old. There might have been some changes to the structure of the survey templates.

Which Limesurvey version and which template do you use??