Using surveys (or something similar) to update customer attributes?

Question

I’m setting up a survey to collect attributes like name and job title, but ran into a blocker where I noticed that company attributes can’t be mapped from surveys. Has anyone figured out a work around for this, or have a creative idea on how we can collect inputs from our users and log them as company attributes?

Racheal · Accepted Answer

Hey @Micah SpielerRacheal from the support engineer team here👋That’s right, you won’t be able to save user responses to company data attributes as it is the user taking the Survey and not the actual company. That said, I’d be happy to flag this as a feature request for the team to consider in the future!The workaround here would be to create a custom user attribute to save your Survey response data to, and then your team will need to write a script or app to map that value to the desiredcompany attribute.Company valuescan be created and updated via ourJavaScript APIand ourREST API. Some company data can be edited in the UI, once the company attribute has been added to yourqualification data.

Micah Spieler · Answer

Thanks @Racheal— I think flagging this as a feature request sounds great. I’ll look into those options.For your feature request submission: what I’m trying to achieve is a Series workflow that allows us to enable our users to enrich not only their own user profile with additional information from a first-login survey, but also their company. I’m looking to collect information about their industry, employee count, etc, so that we can better segment them and align their support and engagement in a more personalized manner.

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