Autofill

What this feature is, why you should use it and when

Step by step implementation of this feature

Example

This section explains what the "Autofill" is and why you should use it

What: This advanced feature allows you to fill in responses automatically.

Why: This feature is used to pre-populate some questions using the imported additional information on respondents along with their email addresses.

We are about to show you step by step how to implement this feature

To use this option follow the steps below:

1. Create .csv (comma separated values) Data File in UTF-8 encoding containing information you want to import. For details go to Export E-mail Addresses From Data Sources.
   Keep in mind that:
   • This file must contain 'Email' field. Your survey will be sent to email addresses indicated in this file field.
   • If you later send this survey manually to email addresses indicated in the data source file, the autofilled information associated with them will be removed.
   • This file must not contain fields which you do not want to import to your survey including field headings (such as 'Email', 'Name' etc.), page breaks etc.
   • Only commas, semicolons and tabulation can serve as delimiters/list separators (If your file contains other separators you may need to change Regional Settings on your computer).
   • If you autofill questions of 'Multi-Line' or 'Single-Line' types and comment fields of appropriate questions no more than 255 characters will be imported, characters that exceed the limit will be cut off.
2. Select a survey to import the Data to.
3. Bring the survey questions in correspondence with fields of Data File you are going to import:
   • Keep in mind that you may import only one response per question, if it is not of 'Single Line Text with Pre-Format Options', 'Check All That Apply' and 'List Box' type.
   • To autofill 'Single Line Text with Pre-Format Options' question type, use a separate answer line for each field to be imported. For example, you can have only one question to import 'demographic' information (name, email address, age etc.). The order of the questions and single line answer choices must be the same as the order of fields in the Data file.
   • Sometimes when you export information from Data Sources, certain fields are automatically broken up into parts. For example, 'Name' field some times is represented by two fields: 'Last name' and 'First name'. In this case you need to import first and last name as responses to two different questions.
   • To autofill 'Check All That Apply', and 'List Box' question types, specify the responses as 0 or 1 (0 - unselected answer, 1 - selected answer).
   • If you use question type 'Dropdown Box' the answer choices must strictly correspond to the content of the fields in Data File. The fields in Data File in the mentioned question cannot be empty. For example, if you are going to import information on respondents' gender and you set answer choices as 'Male' and 'Female', the 'Gender' field of your Data File should contain only one of these two values.
   • It is recommended you put the autofilled questions in the beginning of your survey.
4. Go to the 'Surveys > Launch' page.
5. Click [Go] next to the 'Email Survey Distribution' option.
6. Choose 'Import email list for bulk survey distribution' option under the second step and click [Format Data File].
7. Specify format of the data file to be imported. To do it on the 'Format Data File' page simply select questions responses to which you want to import and use the [>] button to move them from the 'Accessible Survey Questions' text box into the 'Autofill These Questions' text box.
8. Indicate the number of Email and password fields (columns) in the 'Enter field number for email address and password' boxes and click [Save].
9. Check the 'Overwrite' check box if you wish to allow your respondents to edit prepopulated data. If this check box is unchecked, your respondents will be able to see autofilled data but will not be able to edit it (it concerns only questions that are not hidden).
   Note, if the question is hidden, the Overwrite option will automatically unhide the corresponding question on 'Questions' page. You should first apply settings on 'Format Data File' page and after that activate the Hide option on 'Questions' page.
10. Click [Save] to confirm that you want to import responses to the questions listed in the 'Autofill These Questions' text box. A table representing the format of your Data File is automatically created.
11. Make sure that columns of this table strictly correspond to fields of the Data File.
12. Click [Back] to return to the 'Email Survey To List' page.
13. Now you can import your Data File.

Let us take a look at a short example: