allow participants fill in a survey multiple times?

[Fotis Fotiadis]

Hi all

I am new to formr, but I managed to implement a survey (soundnames.formr.org, you may have a look at it but it will probably be Greek to you, since it's in Greek ;-)).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the session information is stored so that a participant cannot fill in the form multiple times.

For example, I use one browser (chrome) to log in and build the study, and another one (firefox) to test it. At first I forgot to add an endpoint, so this message appeared at my test browser:

  Run soundnames: Oops, this study's creator forgot to give it a proper ending, user WT52wXFBh9TFl2wqgdiN1Z8ibZFdrL8JPQitpNTobZeo8XXA2bay3jEx9CY8Zx0O is dangling at the end.  

Although I fixed the study, whenever I try to access the study in firefox, the same message keeps appearing. I can only see the study if I use incognito mode. 

So, I figured that the browser information is stored, and no matter what a user cannot have access to the study for a second time.

Is this an option to deactivate that? I would like my participant to be able to fill in the survey many times.

(I believe I checked the wiki, the documentation, and the FAQ, but i didn't see this question, sorry if I missed it)

Thank you for your time,

Fotis

[Erin Buchanan]

Hi Fotis,

 

What we’ve done is have a run set up like this:

 

Module 1: consent form as a survey module

Module 2: skip forward module to send them to the end if they don’t consent (module 5)

Module 3: real study parts as a survey module

---anything else you need----

Module 4: External link to send them back to our platform or make them “exit the survey”

Module 5: Skip back module to the consent form (module 1)

Module 6: Stop point module to “end” the survey – participants never see this because they get looped around back to the beginning if they do not consent or redirected out if they finish properly.

 

erin

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[Fotis Fotiadis]

Dear Erin, 

Thank you a lot for your response.

But it seems a bit odd to circumvent the problem by creating a complex run structure and by adding so many modules. 

 

Are we sure there is no simpler way? I would bet that this feature would be handy to many users. 

Fotis

[Fotis Fotiadis]

And, also, what Erin suggested isn't appropriate for my study. 

I would like my participants to have the opportunity to again fill in the survey even if they finished properly. That is, I would like to give them the option to change their minds and provide alternative responses. Is this possible?

Thank you again,

Fotis

[kaitobias...@googlemail.com]

Hi,

no, you cannot overwrite existing responses in an already stored survey. the best option would be to use a loop (as in diary studies in the examples on the website), participants could then re-do the survey and provide new responses. The resulting data will then be in long-format, with several rows per participant. 

When you test, you can always open the survey in anonymous windows to test it with a clean sessin. 

best,

Kai