A RedJade survey can be distributed through a third-party provider site. Using an Online Anonymous Link test, the third-party provider can pass in through the survey link a unique id they assign to the participant to track participation. The participant’s unique id is stored inside RedJade and can be passed back to the third-party site through a redirect link at the end of the RedJade survey. Participants are redirected to the third-party site in order to receive compensation, and their unique id included in the redirect link will be used to confirm their participation.


See the following:



Provide Third-Party Panel Company with RedJade Survey Link

An Anonymous Link will need to be provided to the third-party company. The third-party company will append the participant's unique id to the end of the link when redirecting them to the RedJade survey.


To provide an anonymous survey link: 

  1. Create an Online Anonymous Link Test.


  2. Copy the Survey URL from the Test Dashboard.



  3. Email the link to the third-party company and include the Instructions for Third-Party Company.



Instructions for Third-Party Company

When the third-party distributes the survey link to their participants it can assign them a unique id and pass it in to RedJade by appending it to the end of the RedJade survey link.

To append a unique id to the survey link:

  1. Append the external_id parameter to the end of the survey link. For example:

    https://app.redjade.net/surveys/onbd/exampleanonlink1?external_id=


  2. Dynamically insert the participant’s unique id as the external_id value to pass in when they are redirected to RedJade. For example:

    https://app.redjade.net/surveys/onbd/exampleanonlink1?external_id=wxyz


  3. Optionally, include the locale code for participant's preferred language to take the survey in, when multiple languages are made available. For example:

    https://app.redjade.net/surveys/onbd/exampleanonlink1?external_id=wxyz&locale=en_US

    SEE ALSO – Supported Languages for a list of languages currently available.



Adding the Third-Party Redirect Link to RedJade Survey

The third-party company will provide their redirect link with instructions on where to insert the variable that populates the participant's unique id. The redirect link must be placed in a dedicated No Samples questionnaire, with no other content, set Last in the Design Block to ensure the preceding questionnaire data is available from Live Results.


To add the redirect link:

  1. Create a No Samples Questionnaire.


  2. Insert the Redirect Survey to External Site page template from the Display Items folder of the RedJade Library.


  3. Edit the configuration content using the Redirect Survey to External Site instructions. Add the third-party redirect link to the template.


  4. Insert the {{participant_external_id}} variable following the instructions provided with the third-party redirect link.



Storing the Third-Party Company Unique ID in RedJade

The unique id is stored in RedJade as a participant's External ID. The External ID can then be passed back to the third-party site as a variable through the redirect link at the end of the RedJade survey.

When the survey starts a participant is created and the unique id is written to the Participant's External ID field.

If a Participant with a matching External ID already exists, the survey for that participant will be resumed. This is useful if the participant is passed back-and-forth multiple times between the third-party site and RedJade to complete surveys, including on different days or time points.