Overview of Community.lawyer's Answers Repository

Community.lawyer's Answers repository is a place where you can store, view, and download responses to interviews you build in Docassemble.

Once configured, anybody who completes one of your Docassemble interviews will have their full response sent to Answers, and this response will be visible from your Docassemble Toolkit user page.

The Layout

Your Answers page contains a list of all of the answers to your Docassemble interviews. Note that any interviews you've created which have yet to receive any responses will not be displayed in this list.

The name shown for the interview is set in that interview's Metadata.

Export

The 'Export' button will generate a .csv file which will then be emailed to you. This can be useful for doing data manipulation on the raw responses to your interviews.

Individual Answers

Clicking on an interview will display the individual responses to it:

Each response to one of the questions in the interview will be displayed here.

If you've made changes to the interview and have received subsequent responses to it, you might see different questions listed for answers to the same interview. For example, one full Answer might have a response to the question "Where were you born?" whereas another Answer to a later version of this interview may not have this question listed at all.

If you change the interview identifier found in that interview's metadata, any subsequent answers to it will be listed under the new interview name, and so will show up separately. Be wary when changing the interview identifier after you've already begun receiving answers to it.

Uploaded Files

If there is a question which requires a file upload in your Docassemble Interview, a link which can be used to download the file will be found in its responses:

Instructions on how to download this file can be found in the Cloud Storage section of this documentation.

Types of Data in your Answers

Responses to Interview Questions

The most important data is going to be the responses to your interview questions. Here, every answer users taking your interviews create will be stored.

Respondent

If the user taking the interview was logged into Docassemble and has their profile filled out, you'll see their personal information in this block:

This data is separate from any of the information gathered from the question blocks (e.g. if you asked for their name, email address etc.) If the user was not logged into Docassemble, or didn't have their profile filled out, then this section will not be present.

Metadata

Metadata which has been included in your Docassemble Interview will be included in all responses.

Internal Answers

These are internal parameters used by Docassemble in its interviews. They can reveal specifics about the internals of your interview, and are sometimes relevant to more complex interviews.

Url Args

Any parameters which are passed to your interview via the URL will be stored here.

For instance, in the above example the URL the interviewer accessed the interview at might have been:

http:// john_smith.community.lawyer/da?i=docassemble.example_inc:data/questions/survey.yml&start_on_page=3

resulting in the url arguments of 'i' and 'start_on_page' being set to 'docassemble.example_inc:data/questions/survey.yml' and '3', respectively.