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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
16386Bug reportsOtherpublic2021-03-03 15:54
ReporterChristin8 Assigned Toollehar  
PrioritynormalSeverityblock 
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Product Version3.22.19 
Summary16386: Token-based persistence produces weird results when switching devices, browsers, and in incognito browsers to continue survey.
Description

Participant beings survey with token, answeres few a question groups (all groups in the survey are mandatory) and then closes web-browser. When they return to the survey on another device, another browser, or even in incognito/private browsing mode in the same browser they come back to the survey on another state then they left it. It seems like it is working only when they start the survey, leave the browser and come back to it with the token on exactly the same device in the same (not incognito/private) browser.

It almost seems that the browser is storing information about the surveys state - which can only be accessed within the same browser and not on another browser / device / between different incognito browser windows.

Additionally, some participants told us that they make it e.g. halfway through the survey, then they take a break and want to come back and can't proceed even on the same browser. They can't see the questions inside the group, only the description of the question group. Some also get the following error message: "One or more mandatory questions have not been answered. You cannot proceed until these have been completed.” Disabling "mandatory" only achieves that the error message is not displayed, but the questions inside the group are not displayed still.

Steps To Reproduce

Survey structure:
A) The survey basically starts with a view pages, in the beginning, to display information and gather details from all participants.
B) Then, a question group with a hidden question, that selects 40 out of 123 subquestions. Implemented by this approach basically: https://manual.limesurvey.org/Workarounds:_Survey_behaviour#Randomly_show_X_out_of_Y_question_groups
C) Then, 123 question groups with 3 subquestions each. The question groups have a relevance equation to get only displayed on step B, and are in the same randomization group to get shuffled through.

Reproduce the unwanted behavior:
1) Open survey in browser (normal mode): go through the first static pages each participant gets.
2) Continue to an arbitrary point while answering some of the 40 selected question groups.
3) Exit the survey. Return in a new window (normal mode) with the token link, everything works fine and you can continue where you stopped.
4) Return in a new browser / device / incognito window with the token link. You get redirected to another (random?) question group and only the question group description is shown, and no questions.

I was told that it shouldn't make a difference which browser or device participants are using, but it seems like it makes a huge difference. I tried the described test in different browsers and in normal mode/private/incognito mode and there is no recognizable pattern for the buggy behavior.

I updated to Version 3.22.19+200605 as the bug described here (https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=16354) should be fixed. Nevertheless, our problem still exists.

Additional Information

The issues were also described and discused here already https://forums.limesurvey.org/forum/installation-a-update-issues/121416-resume-later-problem?start=15#200641

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limesurvey_survey_587283.lss (2,033,863 bytes)
Bug heat8
Complete LimeSurvey version number (& build)Version 3.22.19+200605
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DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2020-06-15 08:10

developer   ~58278

Can not reproduce …

DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2020-06-15 08:15

developer   ~58279

Oh, not reltead to token answer persistence .

You have an issue in your script, seem not closed.

Then broke something else when reloaded.

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		<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">2132</span>     /* @deprecated since we use button and not input with different value. */
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/application/controllers/survey/index.php(37): <strong>getMove</strong>()				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">32</span> 
<span class="ln">33</span>         $this-&gt;_loadRequiredHelpersAndLibraries();
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<span class="ln">35</span>         $surveyid    = $param['sid'];
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<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">37</span>         $move        = getMove();
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<span class="ln">39</span> 
<span class="ln">40</span>         $oSurvey = Survey::model()-&gt;findByPk($surveyid);
<span class="ln">41</span> 
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/application/controllers/survey/index.php(24): <strong>index</strong>-&gt;<strong>action</strong>()				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">19</span>     public $oTemplate;
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<span class="ln">21</span>     public function run()
<span class="ln">22</span>     {
<span class="ln">23</span>         useFirebug();
<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">24</span>         $this-&gt;action();
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<span class="ln">26</span> 
<span class="ln">27</span>     public function action()
<span class="ln">28</span>     {
<span class="ln">29</span>         global $surveyid;
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/framework/web/actions/CAction.php(76): <strong>index</strong>-&gt;<strong>run</strong>()				</div>

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<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">76</span>         $this-&gt;run();
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/framework/web/CController.php(308): <strong>CAction</strong>-&gt;<strong>runWithParams</strong>(array("r" =&gt; "survey/index", "sid" =&gt; "587283"))				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">303</span>     {
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<span class="ln">312</span>         }
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<span class="ln">268</span>         }
<span class="ln">269</span>         else
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/framework/web/CWebApplication.php(282): <strong>CController</strong>-&gt;<strong>run</strong>("index")				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">277</span>         {
<span class="ln">278</span>             list($controller,$actionID)=$ca;
<span class="ln">279</span>             $oldController=$this-&gt;_controller;
<span class="ln">280</span>             $this-&gt;_controller=$controller;
<span class="ln">281</span>             $controller-&gt;init();
<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">282</span>             $controller-&gt;run($actionID);
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/framework/web/CWebApplication.php(141): <strong>CWebApplication</strong>-&gt;<strong>runController</strong>("survey/index")				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">136</span>             foreach(array_splice($this-&gt;catchAllRequest,1) as $name=&gt;$value)
<span class="ln">137</span>                 $_GET[$name]=$value;
<span class="ln">138</span>         }
<span class="ln">139</span>         else
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<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">141</span>         $this-&gt;runController($route);
</span><span class="ln">142</span>     }
<span class="ln">143</span> 
<span class="ln">144</span>     /**
<span class="ln">145</span>      * Registers the core application components.
<span class="ln">146</span>      * This method overrides the parent implementation by registering additional core components.
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/framework/base/CApplication.php(185): <strong>CWebApplication</strong>-&gt;<strong>processRequest</strong>()				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">180</span>     public function run()
<span class="ln">181</span>     {
<span class="ln">182</span>         if($this-&gt;hasEventHandler('onBeginRequest'))
<span class="ln">183</span>             $this-&gt;onBeginRequest(new CEvent($this));
<span class="ln">184</span>         register_shutdown_function(array($this,'end'),0,false);
<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">185</span>         $this-&gt;processRequest();
</span><span class="ln">186</span>         if($this-&gt;hasEventHandler('onEndRequest'))
<span class="ln">187</span>             $this-&gt;onEndRequest(new CEvent($this));
<span class="ln">188</span>     }
<span class="ln">189</span> 
<span class="ln">190</span>     /**
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				#9			</td>
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										&nbsp;/mnt/data/shnoulle/nginx/www/3LTS/index.php(194): <strong>CApplication</strong>-&gt;<strong>run</strong>()				</div>

				<div class="code"><pre><span class="ln">189</span> require_once APPPATH . 'core/LSYii_Application' . EXT;
<span class="ln">190</span> 
<span class="ln">191</span> $config = require_once(APPPATH . 'config/internal' . EXT);
<span class="ln">192</span> 
<span class="ln">193</span> Yii::$enableIncludePath = false;
<span class="error"><span class="ln error-ln">194</span> Yii::createApplication('LSYii_Application', $config)-&gt;run();
</span><span class="ln">195</span> 
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Christin8

Christin8

2020-06-15 09:35

reporter   ~58280

Thanks for your quick reply and your effort! Do you have a recommendation on how to fix this?

DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2020-06-15 09:52

developer   ~58281

Fix the scripot,

Try to remove it for starting …

It's not a a support system here …

Christin8

Christin8

2020-06-16 13:11

reporter   ~58302

test.mov (1,979,933 bytes)   
cdorin

cdorin

2020-07-09 22:51

reporter   ~58883

Leaving a comment to bump it

ollehar

ollehar

2021-03-03 15:31

administrator   ~62672

Please check if this bug still exists in the latest patch release. Thank you.

DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2021-03-03 15:40

developer   ~62675

Please check if this bug still exists in the latest patch release. Thank you.

See 16386:58281

Fix the script,
Try to remove it for starting …

ollehar

ollehar

2021-03-03 15:42

administrator   ~62676

PHP session issue?

DenisChenu

DenisChenu

2021-03-03 15:53

developer   ~62680

16386:58279

ollehar

ollehar

2021-03-03 15:54

administrator   ~62682

Closing. Please open again if you're sure this is a core issue.

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Date Modified Username Field Change
2020-06-13 14:23 Christin8 New Issue
2020-06-13 14:23 Christin8 File Added: limesurvey_survey_587283.lss
2020-06-15 08:07 DenisChenu Assigned To => DenisChenu
2020-06-15 08:07 DenisChenu Status new => assigned
2020-06-15 08:10 DenisChenu Assigned To DenisChenu => cdorin
2020-06-15 08:10 DenisChenu Note Added: 58278
2020-06-15 08:15 DenisChenu Note Added: 58279
2020-06-15 08:15 DenisChenu File Added: Capture d’écran du 2020-06-15 08-12-56.png
2020-06-15 08:15 DenisChenu File Added: PHP notice.html
2020-06-15 08:15 DenisChenu File Added: Peek 15-06-2020 08-15.gif
2020-06-15 09:35 Christin8 Note Added: 58280
2020-06-15 09:52 DenisChenu Note Added: 58281
2020-06-16 13:11 Christin8 Note Added: 58302
2020-06-16 13:11 Christin8 File Added: test.mov
2020-07-09 22:50 cdorin Assigned To cdorin =>
2020-07-09 22:50 cdorin Status assigned => new
2020-07-09 22:51 cdorin Note Added: 58883
2021-03-03 15:31 ollehar Assigned To => ollehar
2021-03-03 15:31 ollehar Status new => feedback
2021-03-03 15:31 ollehar Note Added: 62672
2021-03-03 15:40 DenisChenu Note Added: 62675
2021-03-03 15:42 ollehar Note Added: 62676
2021-03-03 15:43 ollehar Priority none => normal
2021-03-03 15:53 DenisChenu Note Added: 62680
2021-03-03 15:54 ollehar Status feedback => closed
2021-03-03 15:54 ollehar Resolution open => won't fix
2021-03-03 15:54 ollehar Note Added: 62682