Surveys in the SOAP api

Jacob Winn

Hi,


I am implementing an api connection throught the SOAP api for Surveys and Survey Responses.

I can pull the data back just fine, but I have a question about a certain type of response.

If the survey has fields that are of type Unlimited Text Value I do not get back the actual response.

What I get back seems to be a link to a text file containing the response i.e.: survey/responses/{id}/{id}.txt

Is there a way to get back the actual text of the response?

Can I use the returned url to access the data in the file, or is there some other parameter I need to place on the initial call?


Thanks,

Jacob

Noah Cooper

Jacob,


There is no way to get the response to an Unlimited Text Value question with Web Services unfortunately. As you encountered, the responses to Unlimited Text Value questions are stored on the filesystem, not in the database. The path to the file is admittedly not terribly useful, since you have no way to access that URL (it's one level up in the filesystem from the directory that customers have access to).

Jacob Winn

Noah,


Thank you for the response. With that being the case, I believe I will just hide the path or not include those types of questions since we can not get the data back.


Thanks!

Jacob