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Hello, I have created a batch script for 3 of my IATs and copied the link into Qualtrics. I am having participants take surveys in Qualtrics and the IATs at the end of the surveys. The only way to link my participants is by ID number, however, I have several IDs in the IAT summary data that I cannot trace back to Qualtrics.
My main concern is, when my IAT script is active, is it visible online to others besides my targeted participants? So could it be that other random people are taking it?

Your launch page is publicly accessible and it needs to be -- otherwise none of Qualtrics participants would be able to get to it. Since you did not explain how you match IDs between Qualtrics and Inquisit ("The only way to link my participants is by ID number") -- i.e. what specific ID you are using, when and where is it generated, how you transfer it from Qualtrics to Inquisit, etc. -- I cannot comment on the apparently non-matching IDs. Since the launch page is public, though, it is *possible* (albeit unlikely) that random people are participating (but why would they?) It seems more likely to me that some of your Qualtrics participant may have copied the link and either decided to (re-)do the experiment at a later point either or provided the link to others. But that is just a guess.

Right, thanks. I am asking for the last 4 digits of their (student) IDs and I specify that they use the same last 4 digits at the start of the IATs. A 'question' in the survey is the 'last 4 digits of the ID number'. 

Then it's of course possible for participants to (mistakenly) enter different IDs in Qualtrics vs. in Inquisi, thus producing mismatches. What you'll usually want to do is have Qualtrics forward its unique respondent ID to the Inquisit launch page via a URL query parameter, have the launch page read that parameters value (the ID) and use that as subject ID. See the "How to interoperate Inquisit with online survey packages" topic in the documentation for general info and this thread for some specifcs (including links to the pertinent topics in the Qualtrics documentation): www.millisecond.com/forums/Topic12404.aspx

OK, so I have followed all the below steps, and managed to see the unique participant ID appended to the outgoing millisecond URL at the end of the survey, but once I clicked on the link, the IAT launch page wouldn't open. It said: Page cannot be found. Any idea why this could be happening?

"Another way to do this is to have your participants start in the survey web site, and use whatever method that survey offers for creating a unique identifier for each respondent. When the survey is finished, configure the survey package to forward each participant to the Inquisit launch page address, and to append the respondent's unique id to the url as query parameters. Query parameters are a standard mechanism for sharing data between different web sites, and many survey packages have this capability. Consult the support resources offered by your survey package for instructions on how to forward participants to a url with the subject id as a query parameter.

The following shows an example of a url to an Inquisit experiment with a query parameter at the end of it:

    http://research.millisecond.com/sniffles/myexperiment.web?respondentid=134    

The url contains a single parameters named "respondentid", the values of which is "134". Inquisit can be configured to handle any parameter name. You will have to configure your survey package to dynamically insert the appropriate id value for each participant.

To configure Inquisit to retrieve the subject id from the query parameter, simply run through the webscript registration wizard. When asked how to generate subject ids, select the "Query Parameter" option and specify the name of the parameter (in this case, the name is "respondentid"). That's it, Inquisit will now extract this subject number from the url and record it in the data file."

Nevermind. I've figured it out! Thanks anyway. 

Hi Dave,

Is there any way to automatically download separate data files for each participant orr will I have to do it manually?

You would have to do that manually. When you select multiple files (by checking the boxes next to them), the selected files will be merged into a single file upon downloading.