Sharepoint 2013 foundation – survey – How to check for the completion of a survey response?

Question

I am using Sharepoint 2013 foundation. I have created a survey using the built-in feature of survey of Sharepoint.

After a respondent has completed the survey and pressed the ‘submit’ button, I want to pop up an acknowledgment message window showing message such as ‘Thank you for your participation.’ I am able to achieve this by using javascript to pop up the message when the ‘submit’ button is pressed.

However, in the survey there are a number of mandatory questions. If the respondent has not completed all the mandatory questions and press ‘submit’ button, the acknowledgment message still pops up. Could you please kindly advise how I can check whether all mandatory questions have been completed and survey response successfully submitted in order to determine in my javascript to pop up message or not accordingly?

I cannot check each question one by one because in case my users add one more question, I have to modify my javascript to check the additional question and this solution is not acceptable in my environment.

Thanks a lot for your advice.

Answer 1

You can achieve this by simply add a querystring "Source=" in your survey URL.

First, create a thank you page (e.g. /pages/thankyou.aspx). Then, in your survey newform URL (e.g. <site url>/Lists/survey/NewForm.aspx) add the querystring like this:

<site url>/Lists/survey/NewForm.aspx?Source=/Pages/thankyou.aspx

When the users completed the survey they will be redirected to /pages/thankyou.aspx which shows your message.

However, bear if mind that user click "cancel" in your survey will also be redirect to thankyou.aspx. I suggest you hide the button (I think cancel button is useless in survey anyway) or amend the cancel action with JavaScript.