# How to Display Prolific ID within Pavlovia Survey

**URL:** https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-display-prolific-id-within-pavlovia-survey/44325
**Category:** Pavlovia Surveys
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-display-prolific-id-within-pavlovia-survey/44325 "2025-03-21T15:08:44Z")
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### Author: ![andrewsilva19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@andrewsilva19](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/andrewsilva19)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-display-prolific-id-within-pavlovia-survey/44325/1 "2025-03-21T15:08:44Z")

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Hello,

In the following instructional video about pavlovia surveys, it is mentioned that a prolific ID can be presented within a pavolvia survey question at about 1:00: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b\_aBD8z0KU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b_aBD8z0KU)

So, I’ve been trying to make this happen. This is my prolific redirect, with the re-named prolific id as “participant”.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/9/7/97a5a5d5e9261a9a3ba73e40eef3b67d7d655c16.png)

This is the input in my pavlovia survey:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/a/a/aa3727a6aff25f657d315a06ac77a762c3de8014.png)

And finally, this is what it looks like when I preview it from prolific, so that a dummy prolific id is passed:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/psychopy/original/3X/9/d/9dd1a2034e24b381c75e2ee4ab877abe513a01d8.png)

When I preview something similar in qualtrics, it does display the prolific id, so I think I’m doing something wrong with the pavlovia survey version. How can I make the ID display correctly?

Thank you!

A quick edit to add that this survey is embedded within a psychopy builder online study, in case this matters.

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### Author: ![wakecarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/wakecarter/32/5753_2.png) [@wakecarter](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/wakecarter)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-display-prolific-id-within-pavlovia-survey/44325/2 "2025-03-21T16:26:12Z")

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Yes – unfortunately embedded surveys can’t yet “see” the received variables. You would need to add this page to the experiment – also, I don’t think you should be giving the opportunity to edit the Prolific ID (as opposed to simply show it) since that function could be abused.

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### Author: ![andrewsilva19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@andrewsilva19](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/andrewsilva19)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-display-prolific-id-within-pavlovia-survey/44325/3 "2025-03-21T17:03:51Z")

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Thanks Wakefield,

Noted about editing the Prolific ID - it was a template from the qualtrics docs.

When you mention “adding this page to the experiment”, I think you’re referring to doing a daisy chain with linking to the survey first and then linking to the builder experiment, is that right?

Also just to verify - even if the embedded surveys can’t “see” the received variables, the data output from the entire builder experiment will still contain the prolific ID, is that right?

Much appreciated!

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### Author: ![wakecarter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/wakecarter/32/5753_2.png) [@wakecarter](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/wakecarter)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/how-to-display-prolific-id-within-pavlovia-survey/44325/4 "2025-03-21T17:07:00Z")

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If you are using an embedded survey then your survey is (to my understanding) embedded in an experiment. The experiment data will contain any received variables plus variables from embedded surveys.