How to collect & display event guest data info - survey, interaction, APIs, something else?

All your reasoning seems right to me. It's always hard to find a data store for stuff like this!


You could break out of LO and use something like AWS to save your results, but then you have to worry about security and all that stuff. I found the learning curve to be pretty steep.


" it is unclear to me if I can do the initial create from the user's first data submission through one of the APIs "


You can create custom interactions with logInteraction. Here's an example using Luminate Extend:



// Add an interaction to the constituent's record.

var LogInteraction = function (interaction_type_id, interaction_subject, interaction_body, cons_id, handle_success, handle_error) {


// Build api parameter string

var apiParameters = '&interaction_type_id=' + interaction_type_id;

apiParameters += '&interaction_subject=' + interaction_subject;

apiParameters += '&interaction_body=' + interaction_body;

apiParameters += '&cons_id=' + cons_id;


// Define callbacks

var logInteractionCallback = {

success: function (data) {

if (typeof data.updateConsResponse.interaction_id !== 'undefined') {

console.log("LogInteraction: Successful");

if (handle_success) { handle_success(data.updateConsResponse); }

} else {

console.warn("LogInteraction: Unsuccessful");

if (handle_error) { handle_error(data.updateConsResponse.errors); }

}

},

error: function (data) {

console.error("LogInteraction: Error");

if (handle_error) { handle_error(data.errorResponse); }

}

};


// Call API

luminateExtend.api({

api: 'cons',

callback: logInteractionCallback,

data: 'method=logInteraction' + apiParameters,

requestType: 'POST',

requiresAuth: true

});


};