With the Email Invitation you can do this! First, upload the list. When you send the survey to your list, a unique link will be sent to each person on your list. This means that the link will be "fixed" to this respondent's email address and additional contact information that you have included in the list. One way to understand the specialized link concept is to think of the link as if it were a paper version of the survey with the respondent's name and contact information typed across the top. For example, you have uploaded John's email address, first name, and custom data field to your email list and sent him the survey invitation. When he clicks the link for the survey, his survey opens. He can forward this message to a second email account and click the link to open the survey or he can go to another computer and click the link to open the survey. He can also forward the link to someone else, for example his manager Jane. No matter when or where the link is clicked the survey will always open the same survey with John's information attached. It's just like he took the paper survey into another room to finish the survey later. The survey still has his name typed across the top and if he erases responses, he will be erasing the responses permanently from his survey. If Jane needs to look over the survey and make changes after John has finished the survey; he can forward her the link. When Jane clicks the link, the survey opens to the next page in the survey that requires responses. You may think of it as John delivering the survey to Jane with the survey open to the next page he needs to complete. If he has responded to the first two pages of the survey and clicked "next" to advance to page three to save his response for page two, the survey is open to page three. Therefore, when Jane clicks the link, the survey opens to page three for the completion of the survey. Why? Because responses are not saved by question they are saved by page. When John clicks “Next” to advance to the next page, the questions for that page are saved. When Jane clicks the link to open the survey, this page will open. If John has finished the survey or jumped to the end of the survey before sending the link to Jane, the survey will open to the first page of the survey when Jane or John clicks the link again. Jane will need to click the next button to advance to the point that John had stopped taking the survey and/ or review, edit John's responses. Now, if John did not finish the survey or advance to the end, when Jane clicks the link to open the survey, it will open to the next page that requires answers. This means she will need to click the Next button to advance to the next page or the Back button to see and/or edit John's previous responses. Once the survey has been completed, providing the collector settings are configures to allow edits at any time, the survey opens to page one displaying the answer choices that had been selected previously. Editing these answers, changes the "master" response for this survey. It's just like erasing the response on a paper survey and entering new responses. Jane's ability to open John's survey depends on the Collector Setting for the survey link.  The survey can be opened again for edits only if the Collector setting has been set to allow edits. The first two collection options prevent the survey from ever being opened again with the link once the survey has been submitted by clicking the final "Done" or "Submit" link. Once the submit button has been clicked, it's just like the paper survey has been returned or submitted. It is no longer assessable to the respondent unless the collection option is changed. You could think of it like sealing the survey and sending it in the mail.
Once the survey has been submitted, clicking the link again will open the Redirect page set for the survey. It will not be possible to open the survey again to make edits with either the first or second Collector Settings options after it has been submitted. Email Invitation Collector Settings: The first Collector Setting option: No, Once a page in the survey is submitted, respondents cannot go back and change existing responses is a forward only setting that allows respondents to only move forward in the survey and prevents edits of previous pages. This Setting prevents respondents from editing the survey once a page is submitted. Accessing the link a second time from the email message opens the survey to the last page that was not answered. For example, John completes through page two of the survey and stops. Later Jane clicks the link to finish the survey; the survey opens to page three for Jane to continue. The [<< Prev] navigation link is not visible in the survey for Jane to go back to edit responses. She can move forward only in the survey to finish it. After a page has been submitted, she cannot go back to make changes on previous pages. The second Collector Setting option: Yes, respondents can return to update their responses until they have completed the survey, will allow the respondents to advance forward and backward in the survey to make edits, but once they "Submit" the survey that's it. If you have selected a Collector Setting for the survey that does not allow edits and the respondent has completed the survey, it will not open when the link is accessed again. Instead the Thank You Page or Survey Redirect Option set opens. How To Allow Edits Any Time. To allow edits, it's best to select the third Collector Setting. The third Collector Setting:  Yes, respondents can re-enter the survey at any time to update their responses.
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