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Surveys: Support partial response collection

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enhancement Survey
Dominant language
Dart
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Description

🚨 IMPORTANT

This issue is likely user-facing in the main PostHog app, see surveyVersionRequirements.ts. If you delete or close this issue, be sure to update the version requirements list there.

Summary

The posthog-flutter SDK does not support partial response collection for surveys.

Current State

Expected Behavior

When enable_partial_responses is enabled on a survey:

  1. The SDK should track responses incrementally as the user answers each question
  2. When a user dismisses or abandons a survey without completing it, the partial responses should be captured
  3. Events should include $survey_partially_completed: true property when responses exist but survey isn't complete
  4. Question shuffling should be disabled when partial responses are enabled (responses are tracked by question ID)

Reference Implementation

See posthog-js browser: packages/browser/src/extensions/surveys/surveys-extension-utils.tsx

Tracking

This is tracked in the survey SDK feature parity issue: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/45658

This issue was generated by Claude during a Surveys SDK audit.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with frontend/src/scenes/surveys/surveyVersionRequirements.ts and the referenced browser implementation in packages/browser/src/extensions/surveys/surveys-extension-utils.tsx. Check the linked iOS and Android SDK issues first, since Flutter support depends on them; done means partial responses are collected and marked as specified, with question shuffling disabled when enabled.

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Assessment

Tech stack
dart, flutter
Domain
mobile-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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