SurveyFactory Documentation Documentation Redirect Respondent
Redirect Respondent

Redirect Respondent is a survey content type that allows you to send respondents to another web site, ending their survey response. You may add a redirect anywhere in your survey or the completion behavior. A redirect will be acted on as soon as the user proceeds past the page on which it appears. Redirects are commonly used at the end of survey to send the user to a custom completion location, or within the survey in conjunction with conditions.

Configuration

Required fields

Redirect To - This is a fully qualified URL that you would like to redirect your participants to. For example, http://www.google.com/

Optional fields

Mark Response - You can choose how to treat the survey when the user is redirected. You can treat it as a completed survey and access the results, or treat it as a closed survey, uncompleted but not available for future editing.

Examples

Redirect respondents that can't participate

One common use for redirecting participants is to screen out those who you do not want participating in your survey. Let's say you have a survey that should not be taken by users under 18 years of age. In this case, you might set up the following combination in order to screen them out.

First, you would need to setup a question to prompt them for their age. You could do this through the use of a Dates and Times question type, but for the purposes of this example, we will assume you just use a Single Text Field question and have them type in their age in years. You would also configure the Text Field question to be required and restrict responses using a numerical expression, such as NOT(isDecimal) AND > 0 AND < 120. That will require the user to enter their age in years, to be greater than 0 and less than 120.

Next, you would create a Redirect content type and add it to the survey. Configure it to redirect users to whatever website you want and then create a condition based on the Text Field question we added above. When setting up your condition, you can just have the text field response match a numerical expression such as >= 18 and then choose to hide the redirect when the condition is met.

Once they submit this page and proceed to the next page, if they answered that they are older than 18, the redirect will be hidden and they can proceed with the survey. Otherwise, the redirect will still be visible in the survey and the user will be sent to whatever location you specified when creating the redirect, and can no longer proceed with the survey.

Redirect respondents back to your web site upon completion