How to use IBM App Connect with SurveyMonkey
SurveyMonkey is an online survey platform that allows you to create surveys, share them in different ways, and set up lists of recipients.
App Connect Enterprise as a Service connector
Local connector in containers (Continuous Delivery release) 11.0.0.10-r1 or later
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Local connector in containers (Long Term Support release)
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Local connector in containers (Long Term Support Cycle-2 release)
Supported product and API versions
To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.
Connecting to SurveyMonkey
Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer page or flow editor. If necessary, work with your SurveyMonkey administrator to obtain these values.
SurveyMonkey connection fields:Authorization method | Connection field | Description | Applicability |
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BASIC OAUTH | Access token | Create an application in the SurveyMonkey developer
console to generate an access token. You will find the access token in your app settings.
Note: SurveyMonkey access tokens do
not currently expire but may in the future. For more information, see Token expiration and revocation on the SurveyMonkey Developer page.
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App Connect Enterprise as a Service and App Connect in containers |
To connect to a SurveyMonkey endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand SurveyMonkey, then click Connect.
Before you use the account that is created in App Connect in a flow, rename the account to something meaningful that helps you to identify it. To rename the account on the Applications and APIs page, select the account, open its options menu (⋮), then click Rename Account.
General considerations
Before you use App Connect Designer with SurveyMonkey, take note of the following considerations:
- (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and
actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.
For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.
- (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.
- If you want to add the 'Create collector' action to your flow, you must have an existing survey in SurveyMonkey so that App Connect can create a collector for it; you'll need to specify the name of the survey in App Connect.
- If you want to add the 'Create contact' action to your flow, you must have an existing contact list in SurveyMonkey for App Connect to add the contact to; you'll need to specify the name of the contact list in App Connect.
- If you want to add the 'Create recipient' action to your flow, you must have an existing survey and collector in SurveyMonkey so that App Connect can use the collector to send the survey to the new recipient; you'll need to specify the names of the survey and collector in App Connect.
Events and actions
SurveyMonkey events
These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.
- New response
SurveyMonkey actions
Your flow completes these actions on this application.
- Collectors
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- Create collector
- Retrieve collectors
- Update collector
- Delete collector
- Contact lists
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- Create contact list
- Retrieve contact lists
- Update contact list
- Delete contact list
- Contacts
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- Create contact
- Retrieve contacts
- Update contact
- Delete contact
- Errors
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- Retrieve errors
- Messages
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- Create message
- Retrieve messages
- Update message
- Delete message
- Pages
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- Retrieve pages
- Questions
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- Retrieve questions
- Recipients
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- Create recipient
- Retrieve recipients
- Delete recipient
- Responses
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- Retrieve responses
- Surveys
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- Retrieve surveys
Examples



Use templates to quickly create flows for SurveyMonkey
Learn how to use App Connect templates to quickly create flows that complete actions on SurveyMonkey. For example, open the Templates gallery, and then search for SurveyMonkey.