The QualVu VideoSurvey authoring environment allows you to create multiple Sample Identifiers that are attached to the question. You can see this in action when adding or editing a question in a VideoSurvey project: Add a new question by clicking the 'Add Question' link in the dashboard on the right-hand side, then edit the question by clicking the pencil icon in the 'Edit' column of the Questions list.
In this example below, I have created two Sample Identifiers: "QV_USER_ID" and "HOCUS_POCUS". When you try this yourself in the QualVu portal, and then run "Generate Code" for either Inline Embed or Window Embed, you will see the sample identifiers in the generated code, as below...
Here is what the embed code looks like (these are non-functional examples):
INLINE EMBED CODE (displays directly inline where you embed):
<object width="330" height="370"> <param name="movie" value=" http://www.qualvu.com/videosurvey/abcdeFGHIJkl/QV_USER_ID/HOCUS_POCUS/"></param> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param> <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="330" height="370" src=" http://www.qualvu.com/videosurvey/abcdeFGHIJkl/QV_USER_ID/HOCUS_POCUS/"> </embed> </object>
WINDOW EMBED CODE (displays in a new external window):
<a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('http://www.qualvu.com/videosurvey/abcdeFGHIJkl/QV_USER_ID/HOCUS_POCUS/', '_blank', 'width=370, height=365')"> <img src="http://www.qualvu.com/image/answer_video_question.jpg" /></a>
Your survey system can use these Sample Identifiers in a couple of different ways:
- You can simply leave them as-is and they will be passed back to the QualVu system and associated with the corresponding video response.
- You can use your software to replace these values at survey runtime. For example, in your environment, you may replace "QV_USER_ID" with an actual value from your system. This could be used to identify the survey user on your system with the video generated in our system.
- You can add additional identifiers to the ones you created in our portal. As long as each identifier you send is separated by a / (forward slash) example: http://www.qualvu.com/videosurvey/tFQnoDZrgNxA/QV_USER_ID/HOCUS_POCUS/more/more/more/and/so/on/down/the/line
Adding one or two in our authoring environment may assist when developing software to replace them or when dynamically adding your own variables at survey runtime. Regardless of the method you use to add the identifiers, we will store all of them in our database and you can view the results through the QualVu portal.