Configuration

The _sva object allows you to pre-configure the behavior of the Survicate script, by attaching an additional configuration code before the regular tracking code.

Respondent identification & custom attributes

You can pass custom respondent attributes from your website or application. We’ve reserved some attributes that we handle in a special way. For example, we expect email to be a string of the user’s email address.

(function(opts) {
  opts.traits = {
    "email": "Respondent's email",
    "first_name": "Respondent's name",
    "last_name": "Respondent's last name", 
    "my_custom_attribute": "Custom attribute value"
  };
})(window._sva = window._sva || {});

Reserved attributes we’ve standardized:

first_name
last_name
email
organization
department
job_title
phone
website
country
address_one
address_two
city
state
zip
fax
annual_revenue
employees

Disabling automatic targeting

The visitors targeting script is run automatically every time there is a need to verify if a visitor matches the targeting configuration. We understand that for some users this isn’t the desired behavior, e.g. custom targeting using the _sva.showSurvey method. If you wish to disable this feature, you can use the disableTargeting property.

(function(opts) {
  opts.disableTargeting = true;
})(window._sva = window._sva || {});

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