02 - Inviting people to a recruitment survey

Since the recruitment survey must have an "altid" parameter containing a unique value that will be used to create the panellist in the database - in the link - and the link to start the interview is not the standard link that is used when importing a sample, you have to invite people to a survey, that simply redirects the respondent to a recruitment survey, using the correct link and parameters.

There are many ways of creating unique ID's (or GUIDS). One can create these outside of Q_Survey and load it as part of the sample, typically if one has a system for creating the ExternalPanelistID. If not, we have created examples that uses JavaScript to create GUID's or one can simply use the "sys_respguid" of the redirect questionnaire, as the "altid". The redirect should simply set the status of the interview to "Not applicable", as this is not needed for anything. 

The only thing you can track in the sample, is if they opened the redirect survey. You do not know if they completed the recruitment survey. You can create a dataset showing the "Active" interviews in the recruitment survey, and in that way check who has not completed the survey. You should add a column to the sample called "redirectmode", and all the respondents should have the value of "1". This will ensure that if the respondents click the link in the invitation again, they are sent directly to the redirected recruitment questionnaire, hence you can remind the people that have "active" recruitment surveys, but this is a manual process.