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An open link survey is one where anyone who receives the survey link can take part in the survey. An example of such a survey is where you wish to easily solicit fedback from a group for an ad-hoc event, such as a meeting, or you wish to provide a link so that anyone can respond at any time.
Setting a Survey To Be an Open Link Survey
Configuring whether a survey can contain an open link occurs at the template level with two properties:
| Property | Description |
| allowOpenLink: true | Whether the option to provide an optional open link is available in the template |
| openLinkSetting: true | The default status of the switch to enable the open link |
By default, these properties are set to false
Once these settings have been enabled, the survey creator will see the "Generate survey link" button in the sampling step of the survey workflow:
Figure 1 - Generate survey link button
Receiving the open link survey invitation
The author of the open link survey can choose to receive the details of the open link survey, they may wish to pass these details on to potential participants. The content of the email is controlled in an email template. This is configured in a notifications section of the Config Pulse block:
notifications
openLinkEmailTemplate: OpenLink
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The template supports a primitive ^Pulse.SurveyOpenLink^ to embed the open link survey URL:
Figure 2 - Open link survey email example
Once the survey has been launched, the open link is also available from the survey overview widget:
Figure 3 - Survey link location
NOTE: for surveys with the open link enabled, the survey overview will not contain metrics for invitations and response rate, given that the invitation is open, and the number of contacts is not known.