Participant Info

The SDK allows you to obtain basic participant information. See Participants for general information about participant identifiers, custom fields, and other participant data.

Contents

Get Participant Info
Persist Participant Info

Get Participant Info

MyDataHelps.getParticipantInfo()

Retrieve demographic information about the current participant, as well as project-specific custom fields.

Returns

Promise<ParticipantInfo>

Resolves to a result object containing participant info fields.

Child Fields

result.participantIdentifier string

Project-set, unique participant identifier.

result.participantID

Internal, stable, unique ID for the participant.

result.projectID string

The project identifier.

result.secondaryIdentifier string

(DEPRECATED) An alias for a custom field named SecondaryIdentifier, if one exists. See deprecation notice.

result.enrollmentDate date

Date when the participant completed enrollment, in ISO8601 format.

result.linkIdentifier string

Auto-generated identifier used to complete surveys via link, if that feature is enabled for the project.

result.demographics object

Object containing properties for all demographic fields populated for the participant. Unpopulated values are not included.

Child Fields

result.demographics.email string

result.demographics.mobilePhone string

result.demographics.firstName string

result.demographics.middleName string

result.demographics.lastName string

result.demographics.street1 string

result.demographics.street2 string

result.demographics.city string

result.demographics.state string

result.demographics.postalCode string

result.demographics.dateOfBirth string

result.demographics.preferredLanguage string

Preferred language, automatically determined during enrollment. Used to determine language of notifications.

result.demographics.gender string

Gender code: M, F, O, or null.

result.demographics.utcOffset string

Timezone represented as a UTC offset, e.g., -04:00:00.

result.customFields object

Object whose properties represent key/value pairs as project-specific custom fields.

Availability

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Web View Steps

    Retrieving Participant Info 
    
  

    MyDataHelps.getParticipantInfo()
	.then( function(result) {
		console.log(result);
	} );
  MyDataHelps.getParticipantInfo()
	.then( function(result) {
		console.log(result);
	} );

    Console Output 
    
  

    {
  "participantIdentifier": "4c9d3554-7cb1-456e-89ca-5387bda4803c",
  "linkIdentifier": "be0ec303-3abd-49ac-a5ce-78c6695d7d96",
  "enrollmentDate": "2021-04-15T18:55:53.766+00:00",
  "projectID": "0971fbcd-ec92-414c-bd49-41a3c8b6547b",
  "demographics": {
    "email": "somebody@example.com",
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Smith",
    "dateOfBirth": "2000-06-16",
    "preferredLanguage": "en",
    "gender": "M",
    "utcOffset": "-04:00:00"
  },
  "customFields": {
    "Medication1": "Warfarin",
    "Smoker": "0",
    "SurgeryDate": null
  }
}
  {
  "participantIdentifier": "4c9d3554-7cb1-456e-89ca-5387bda4803c",
  "linkIdentifier": "be0ec303-3abd-49ac-a5ce-78c6695d7d96",
  "enrollmentDate": "2021-04-15T18:55:53.766+00:00",
  "projectID": "0971fbcd-ec92-414c-bd49-41a3c8b6547b",
  "demographics": {
    "email": "somebody@example.com",
    "firstName": "John",
    "lastName": "Smith",
    "dateOfBirth": "2000-06-16",
    "preferredLanguage": "en",
    "gender": "M",
    "utcOffset": "-04:00:00"
  },
  "customFields": {
    "Medication1": "Warfarin",
    "Smoker": "0",
    "SurgeryDate": null
  }
}

Persist Participant Info

MyDataHelps.persistParticipantInfo(demographics, customFields)

Updates participant information.

Note
The SDK only allows updates of demographics and participant-editable custom fields. Other data is not intended to be changed by the participant, and can only be edited using the Participants API.

Parameters

demographics

Object containing properties for all demographic fields populated for the participant. Unspecified fields will not be changed.

Child Fields

demographics.email string

demographics.mobilePhone string

demographics.firstName string

demographics.middleName string

demographics.lastName string

demographics.street1 string

demographics.street2 string

demographics.city string

demographics.state string

demographics.postalCode string

demographics.dateOfBirth string

demographics.preferredLanguage string

Preferred language, automatically determined during enrollment. Used to determine language of notifications.

demographics.gender string

Gender code: M, F, O, or null.

demographics.utcOffset string

Timezone represented as a UTC offset, e.g., -04:00:00.

customFields object

Object whose properties represent key/value pairs as project-specific custom fields. Unspecified fields will not be changed.

Returns

Promise<ParticipantInfo>

Resolves to a result object containing participant info fields.

Child Fields

result.participantIdentifier string

Project-set, unique participant identifier.

result.participantID

Internal, stable, unique ID for the participant.

result.projectID string

The project identifier.

result.secondaryIdentifier string

(DEPRECATED) An alias for a custom field named SecondaryIdentifier, if one exists. See deprecation notice.

result.enrollmentDate date

Date when the participant completed enrollment, in ISO8601 format.

result.linkIdentifier string

Auto-generated identifier used to complete surveys via link, if that feature is enabled for the project.

result.demographics object

Object containing properties for all demographic fields populated for the participant. Unpopulated values are not included.

Child Fields

result.demographics.email string

result.demographics.mobilePhone string

result.demographics.firstName string

result.demographics.middleName string

result.demographics.lastName string

result.demographics.street1 string

result.demographics.street2 string

result.demographics.city string

result.demographics.state string

result.demographics.postalCode string

result.demographics.dateOfBirth string

result.demographics.preferredLanguage string

Preferred language, automatically determined during enrollment. Used to determine language of notifications.

result.demographics.gender string

Gender code: M, F, O, or null.

result.demographics.utcOffset string

Timezone represented as a UTC offset, e.g., -04:00:00.

result.customFields object

Object whose properties represent key/value pairs as project-specific custom fields.

Availability

MyDataHelps Views

MyDataHelps Embeddables

Web View Steps

    Persist Participant Info 
    
  

    MyDataHelps.persistParticipantInfo(
   { 'firstName': 'Bob' }, 
   { 'Medication1': 'Aspirin' })
.then( function(result) {
  console.log(result);
} );
  MyDataHelps.persistParticipantInfo(
   { 'firstName': 'Bob' }, 
   { 'Medication1': 'Aspirin' })
.then( function(result) {
  console.log(result);
} );

    Console Output 
    
  

    {
  "participantIdentifier": "4c9d3554-7cb1-456e-89ca-5387bda4803c",
  ...
  "demographics": {
    "email": "somebody@example.com",
    "firstName": "Bob",
    "lastName": "Smith"
  },
  "customFields": {
    "Medication1": "Aspirin",
    "Smoker": "0",
  }
}
  {
  "participantIdentifier": "4c9d3554-7cb1-456e-89ca-5387bda4803c",
  ...
  "demographics": {
    "email": "somebody@example.com",
    "firstName": "Bob",
    "lastName": "Smith"
  },
  "customFields": {
    "Medication1": "Aspirin",
    "Smoker": "0",
  }
}