Functionality to save answers and return at a later date to modify or finish the survey.

[AngeliaMiller]

Description

Hi there,

I'm wondering if there is a way to build in functionality for a user to save their spot in a survey and to come back to finish it at a later date. Finishing it could include modifying previous answers and overwriting the saved value in the db, or answering unanswered questions in the survey.

I currently have a survey with 5 main questions, that at the end, users can generate a report based on their inputs. They have asked if there is a way to save their place and iterate over the survey as new information comes in, updating or adding in new answers over time, and effectively building a draft report with each time step. Then at a time certain, they would visit the survey one last time and finalize their answers to generate the final report based on those inputs.

I'm currently using version 1.1.3.

Thanks!

[jhelvy]

Hi! Cool idea...I imagine one way to do this would be to pass some url parameter in so ID a user, so something like https://site-hosting-survey.com/my-survey&user=123 for user 123. Then when they get there, all their prior responses should be restored. That's at least a mechanism, though I'm not exactly sure how to wire that up. We have a sd_get_url_pars() function for grabbing the url pars, and there's an example of how we do that to redirect users to a different website at the end of the survey here. But I've never used url parameters (yet) to restore the state of a prior user's survey. I can think about it. There may be other ways, but this is probably the right direction.