Require completion of first questionaire before activating triggers for other questionaire

[dleijs]

Hi @SelinaDev and others,

We are starting a study that has an intake-questionaire and an ESM-questionaire. The ESM-questionaire has (multiple) daily time-scheduled triggers and will run for about two weeks.
We want participants to first finish the intake-questionaire and only then start the daily triggers/notifications for the ESM-questionaire but cannot find out how to do that in ESMira.

I know we can have a trigger based on filling-out another questionaire, but that would not prevent the firing of time-scheduled triggers of the ESM-questionaire.

Also tested with some scripting, but setting an end-block on the intake-questionaire to someting like globals.intake_completed = 1; and then checking for that var in a script filter does prevent participants from filling out the ESM-questionaire, but the time-scheduled triggers still do fire and send notifations.

How can we schedule the ESM-questionaire triggers to only start once the intake-questionaire has been completed?

Thanks!

[SelinaDev]

Hi again!

For now, the only way to create this kind of dependency are script filters, as you correctly noticed. Unfortunately, they are not well integrated with the scheduler (yet), and due to the arbitrary complexity of possible scripts I am not sure they can be, as they introduce dynamic changes that the scheduler cannot predict.

My assumption though would be that these extra notifications would mainly affect iOS, as Android can check if questionnaires are active at the time of firing a notification. Is that what you observe?
In the upcoming update I am working on there are a few more checks aimed at iOS to prevent extra notifications. These are not aimed at script filters directly, but might help in this situation (I'm not entirely sure though).

Long story short, I am not sure it's currently possible to prevent those notifications in this situation.

Best,
Selina

[dleijs]

Thanks for you answer @SelinaDev !

[JodliDev]

Another option that would work as a work around, might be to just split your intake-questionnaire and the "actual" questionnaire into two separate studies.
Participants will enroll to the intake-study. And as soon as they have filled out the intake-questionnaire, they will get an automated message (triggered by the event of filling out the questionnaire) which has the access code to the "actual" study (you should also be able to just have the url of that study in the message. And if you replace the https:// with esmira:// in the url, participants will only have to click on it and ESMira will automatically open the enrollment screen for that study)

[dleijs]

That seems like a possible solution. We'll to some tests with this. Many thanks @JodliDev !