Survey ending

Survey endings determine the last action or screen that respondents see in the survey. Respondents are not marked as completing (or disqualified from) the survey until they reach one of these pages. Since an ending is required to accomplish this, as soon as you add a question to your survey, an ending card is automatically placed in your survey flow. Survey endings allow you to thank respondents for taking your survey and, if needed, redirect them to a panel provider or website.

Since survey endings always mark the end of a path through the survey, they are in their own section below the rest of your questions in the survey editor.

When respondents begin a survey, they receive an incomplete status until they reach a survey ending or their record is expired.

A complete, disqualified, or over-quota status is assigned when respondents reach a survey ending configured with the respective setting. To assign these statuses, add survey endings to the survey and configure the respondent status options. Then, use skip logic or quota elements in the survey flow to direct respondents to the appropriate status.

You can create multiple survey end points with the three statuses.

The redirect setting on a survey ending determines where the respondent will be sent when they reach that point. You can choose from three redirect methods: No redirect, Instant redirect, or On button click.

If you need to pass respondents back to the panel provider or into an additional survey platform, you need to specify the link (URL) that respondents will be redirected to after they are finished with the survey in Discover.

This link must be obtained from the destination (receiving platform/website) and inserted into the redirect URL field.

You can pass data out of Discover by appending dynamic variable data within the URL. To call/reference the variable data and insert it into the link, use script notation (open and closing double curly-brace tags) and the getValue function that references the appropriate variable or question in your survey, like this:

{{ getValue(“variableName”) }}

Alternatively, you can easily select and insert variables with the correct syntax automatically using the insert variable button below the input in the toolbar. Just click where you want to insert the variable in the link (URL), then click the button, followed by the desired variable in the menu.

For example, if you obtain a URL from your panel provider that looks like this:

https://www.panelprovider.com/slkdn2dn3?rst=1&id=XXXX&location=XXXX

The variables that you might consider passing out are id and location. The “XXXX” in the link are the placeholder values that need to be replaced. 

Let us assume that we defined survey variables for our respondent ID numbers as respid and locations as location. To insert the data and pass it out over the URL, you would replace “XXXX” after “id=” and “location=” with {{ getValue(“respid”) }} and {{ getValue(“location”) }} respectively.

The URL would look like this:

https://www.panelprovider.com/slkdn2dn3?rst=1&id={{ getValue(“respid”) }}&location={{ getValue(“location”) }}

Read the article Linking surveys and passing data to learn more.