Creating a Community panel
To create a new Community panel, click "Add Community panel" in the center of the Audience tab.
Step 1: Panel Name
Firstly, enter a Community panel name.
Show login page: Dy default, this is toggled off. The login page refers to the GroupSolver Welcome Screen that respondents can interact with at the beginning of a study.
Allow anonymous login: Respondents may now have the option to enter the study anonymously.
Allow email login: Respondents may now enter their email addresses to enter the study.
Note: Disallowing either email or anonymous login will make the other option unavailable to toggle off. You must have one of these options selected.
Selecting the "Enable forced redirects" toggle will bring up a separate view where you can now input redirect links, which will be applied to every END_STUDY module in the study. You can learn more about how redirects work in the Prepping for Launch: Panels & Statistics article.
Step 2: Email settings
Email settings screen lets you configure the e-mail that will be sent out to respondents included in the Community panel. There's also a preview of the e-mail that will be send out to respondents.
These are the settings you can configure for each e-mail:
Community column with email addresses - pick a column from the Community that contains the e-mail addresses that you want to send out e-mail to.
Community column with respondents' names - pick a column that contains the respondent names that will be used in the e-mail. This field is optional.
Subject - enter a subject that will display to survey respondents.
Headline - enter a headline that will display in the central position above the e-mail text.
Text - enter a text for the "body" of the e-mail.
Open survey button label - enter a text that will display on the button underneath the e-mail text. This button will redirect a respondent to the survey.
You can also perform a basic mark down syntax formatting. More information on that is underneath the "Some formatting allowed" tooltip.
Note: If you do not wish to change the default values of the Subject, Headline, Text and Label fields, you can leave them so and the e-mail will send out in its default form.
Step 3: Filter respondents
Filter respondents is the final screen that lets you filter out the respondents from the Community that you do not want to include in the survey.
You can add conditions by clicking "Add condition" button. The preview below the filter changes dynamically based on the filter/s you have added.
Finally, click "Create panel" to finish the Community panel configuration.
Accessing the Community panel
You can access the Community panel from the Panel list in the Audience tab. By clicking "three dots", you can access the following features:
Panel settings - this will open up a three step configuration page that you used while creating the community panel.
Send email invitations - triggering this feature will send out e-mail invitations to respondents within the community panel. There are more options that can appear here, depending on the stage of the study:
send test email invitation to your email (email used to login into Dashboard) in Draft (ready to launch) study
send (up to) 100 invitations in LAUNCHED study
send all invitations at once in LAUNCHED study
Remove panel - click this to remove (delete) the community panel.
