InstantForum 2017-1 FinalMillisecond Forumshttps://forums.millisecond.com/Millisecond ForumsMon, 21 Sep 2026 04:33:34 GMT20https://forums.millisecond.com/Topic19776.aspxHi there,&nbsp;<br/><br/>I am trying to create an experiment wherein participants study a set of images, and are tested on those images after a specific amount of time (on the order of hours to days) has passed. <br/><br/>I was wondering if trigger emails are an option in Inquisit. Ideally I would want it so that when participants reach the end of a study session, &nbsp;they are automatically sent an email with a link to the test/second half of the experiment x hours later, effectively automating the process so I don't have to manually send them the second half of the experiment. I know something like this would be possible using a software like Boomerang, but I'm wondering if there is a way to either do this directly in Inquisit or link up Inquisit with external software that can do this. Any thoughts?<br/>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:32:20 GMTsaudrainhttps://forums.millisecond.com/Topic19777.aspxInquisit (Web) by itself does not have the capability to send emails. What you'd have to do is re-direct participants to some sort of 3rd party service and have them enter their email address there after the 1st Inquisit experiment / session. That service would then have to take care of sending out the trigger email to the participant X amount of time after s/he visited. I imagine that some web-survey platforms (e.g. Qualtrics, SurveyMonkey) offer such functionality. If not and you're somewhat familiar with web programming, this shouldn't be too hard to set up from scratch either. You'd need a simple web server that <br/>(1) Serves a simple web form for participants to enter their email address,<br/>(2) Stores the address and the time it was entered in a simple database,<br/>(3) A simple script that calculates the time to send out the trigger email based on the time of entry, <br/>(4) and goes through the database in regular intervals and sends out any pending emails.<br/><br/>In essence, something similar to what's discussed e.g. here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2571658/how-to-schedule-emails-to-send-out">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2571658/how-to-schedule-emails-to-send-out</a><br/><br/>Hope this helps.<br/>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:32:20 GMTDave