Issue with Data Not Saving Properly in Pavlovia – soultions to direct to a new survey after completion?

[OrsolyaSzekely]

I’m running an online experiment in Pavlovia using PsychoPy, which includes a survey (info sheet, consent form, questionnaires), an experimental task, and additional Pavlovia survey-based questionnaires. Participants are incentivised with a prize draw. At the end of the study, they reach the debrief page, where they can enter the prize draw via a link to a separate Pavlovia survey before pressing ‘Complete’ on the main survey. This keeps email addresses anonymous, but when participants don’t return to press ‘Complete’, their data isn’t saved.

I can see email addresses with no corresponding data, and only one full dataset has been recorded, while many appear empty. Pavlovia is set to ‘save periodically’ and ‘save incomplete results’, but it isn’t reliably saving responses before participants leave.

Does anyone know why Pavlovia might not be saving partial data despite these settings?

Is there a way to edit the post-submission message or redirect participants to the prize draw after pressing ‘Complete’?

Also, any suggestions on better ways to collect email addresses anonymously while ensuring data is saved?

Any advice would be really appreciated!

[wakecarter]

@OrsolyaSzekely

Does anyone know why Pavlovia might not be saving partial data despite these settings?

The result of my investigations is that incomplete data saving fails if the participants navigates away from the tab instead of closing it.

Wakefield's Daily Tips

Saving incomplete results When I create a new study on Pavlovia, one of the first things I do is turn off “save incomplete results”. [image] [image] The reason I do this is to avoid having lots of data files getting created while I build and test the experiment. This is especially important if you use credits rather than a licence, since each data file will cost a credit. Even when turned on, saving incomplete results can be a bit hit and miss. The data is always saved if you press escape …

@OrsolyaSzekely

Is there a way to edit the post-submission message or redirect participants to the prize draw after pressing ‘Complete’?

Yes. Since I doubt you’ll be able to add a link to the post-submission message, you need daisy chaining.

Wakefield's Daily Tips

Daisy Chaining Daisy chaining means going from one web application to another in a single participant session. It normally requires passing the values of one or more variables from one app. to the next so that the data can be matched. There are two aspects to consider. The first is sending values TO Pavlovia. I highly recommend that you send a value for participant (without changing the spelling or capitalisation) since this value will start the data file and log file names. A column for sessi…