Pulse Insights Documentation
  • Pulse Insights Overview
    • 👋Welcome to Pulse Insights
  • Implementing Pulse Insights (Dev)
    • Implementing on Web and Mobile Web
      • Deploying your tag (code snippet)
      • Ingesting contextual data for targeting and analysis
      • Client Key
      • Tracking Events (aka High Value Actions)
      • Presenting a specific survey
      • Supporting Inline surveys
      • Callbacks
      • Privacy Features
        • Identifiers, cookies, and local storage
        • Data that Pulse Insights stores
      • QA Process and Preview Mode
        • JavaScript Object
      • Single Page Apps
      • Load Time & Availability
      • Bot blocking
      • Customer-initiated Feedback
    • Implementing in email
      • Dynamic Email
    • Implementing in Native Apps
      • Android
      • iOS
      • Demo App Help
  • Integrations
    • Integrations overview
      • Hubspot
      • Braze
      • Google Analytics
      • Data Lake
  • Configuring Pulse Insights (Console)
    • Account Setup
      • Authentication & SSO
      • Inviting Collaborators
      • Roles & permissions
    • Dashboard & Program Management
      • Survey Status
    • Editor
      • Question Types
        • Survey Invitation
        • Single Choice
          • Using Images
        • Multiple Choice
        • Free Text
        • Net Promoter Score
        • Slider
        • Custom Content (Next Best Action)
        • Thank You Message
          • Poll (Show Results)
      • General
      • Targeting
        • Devices & Channels
        • Sample Rate
        • URL & Events
        • Dates
        • Previous Responses
        • On Page Behavior
        • CRM Targeting
        • Geo Targeting
        • Goal
        • User Behavior
        • Advanced Settings
      • Formatting
        • Widget Types
          • Docked
          • Bottom Bar
          • Top Bar
          • Overlay
          • Inline
        • Themes
        • Question Display
        • Custom CSS (Survey-level)
        • Supported Markdown
      • Link Builder
      • Preview
      • Survey Groups (Localization)
    • Reporting
      • Results Page & Filtering
      • On Demand
        • Columns/Data Dictionary
      • Scheduled Reports
      • Free Text
        • AI Generated Summary
        • Responses & Tagging
      • Custom Content Reporting
      • Viewable Impressions
    • Account Level Settings
      • Get Code Snippet
      • Global Targeting
      • Data & Integrations (Callbacks)
      • Data Restrictions
      • Themes
      • Automations
        • High Value Actions (Events)
      • Activity Log
      • Configured by Pulse Insights
  • Best Practices
    • Best Practices
      • Copy
      • Design and Execution
      • Targeting
      • Widget Types
      • Sample Rate
      • Submission Rates
      • Special Features
      • Best Practices for Progressive Profiling
  • API
    • API reference
      • Surveys
        • Questions
        • Poll
      • Q
        • A
      • Direct serve
      • Serve
      • Results
      • Present results
      • Track event
      • Custom content link click
      • Submissions
        • All answers
        • Answer
        • Close
        • Viewed at
      • Devices
        • Set data
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Submits an answer to a survey question. Records the answer in the database UNLESS preview_mode is 'true'.

get

/submissions/{submission_udid}/answer

Path parameters
submission_udidstringrequired

The survey submission's unique ID.

Query parameters
identifierstringrequired

The account's unique ID.

Example: PI-1234567890
question_idstringrequired

The question ID.

answer_idstring

Required by single choice questions, slider questions, and NPS questions.

text_answerstring

Required if question is a free text question.

next_question_idstring

Required if question is a custom content question.

check_boxesstring

A comma-delimited string of possible answer IDs. Used by multiple choice questions.

Example: 1,23,42
preview_modestring

If 'true' then nothing will be recorded in the database.

Example: true
Responses
application/javascript
text/plain
cURL
JavaScript
Python
HTTP
curl -L \
  --url 'https://survey.pulseinsights.com/submissions/{submission_udid}/answer?identifier=PI-1234567890&question_id=text'
200
400
text

Successful response. If survey has only one question and "show results instead" is enabled, then returns an object of poll results. Otherwise '{}'.