url variables to non-Convio page

JimHouse · January 2009

I am wanting to redirect users to a non-Convio page after a form has been successfully submitted. I am also wanting to pass a couple variables from that form to the non-Convio page as url variables. Is it possible to do this? If so, is there a place I can research this? If not, how do you do it?

Thanks, in advance, for your help.

Adrian Cotter · January 2009

I think it would depend on what kind of form (survey?) and what variables you wanted to pass.

JimHouse · January 2009

Adrian Cotter:
I think it would depend on what kind of form (survey?) and what variables you wanted to pass.

We are building the survey in the Content builder.

We would like to ask for firstname, lastname, city, state and email. Then pass those 5 variables to a non-Convio site using url variables (or 1 variable will all 5 pieces of info). Is that doable?

Adrian Cotter · January 2009

JimHouse :
We are building the survey in the Content builder.

We would like to ask for firstname, lastname, city, state and email. Then pass those 5 variables to a non-Convio site using url variables (or 1 variable will all 5 pieces of info). Is that doable?

So in the survey's thank you link (that would send the person off to the non-convio page), you could try using STags to set additional parameters in the link

I've never tried this -- though I feel like that I have read that it is possible somewhere in this forum. The user would need to be logged in at this point (either by the survey or at some step before the survey).

I do not think you can pass along any of the data directly from the survey itself (that has been made available to us as customers at any rate).

Andrew Hedden · February 2009

Hey Jim,

The S28 tag allows you to do several things with surveys. One of these is a reporting functionality where you can provide it a question id and it will provide the results provided. You may be able to leverage this to accomplish your goal.

Here is the link to the s-tag documentation that contains info about this tag. http://community.customer.convio.com/docs/DOC-1408

Hope this helps.

-Andrew

JimHouse · February 2009

Adrian Cotter:
So in the survey's thank you link (that would send the person off to the non-convio page), you could try using STags to set additional parameters in the link

I've never tried this -- though I feel like that I have read that it is possible somewhere in this forum. The user would need to be logged in at this point (either by the survey or at some step before the survey).

I do not think you can pass along any of the data directly from the survey itself (that has been made available to us as customers at any rate).

We tried this, but it is not successful. Any other ideas?

Adrian Cotter · February 2009

JimHouse :
We tried this, but it is not successful. Any other ideas?

So there are a couple other options:

#1) Forward them to a convio page, and on that convio page have a link to your non-convio page (with the user info embedded) and then to either:

a) let the user click a button or the like with the link

b) user javascript to click that link or button to forward them on to that page

c) create a special wrapper with a META tag refresh that has the URL in it (I may be wrong about this as well, but I think you can put S tags in the meta tag fields of a page wrapper)

#2) Send them on to your non-convio page, and then use an iframe and JS to get the information you need.

#1 would probably be easier, #2 is mite bit tricker, but might give you more options for the future.

url variables to non-Convio page

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