Hello,

In my survey people must choose a person's name from a dropdown list. In later questions the name of that person reappears in the question. In that question there is also a "he/she" placeholder. Is there a possibility to replace this "he/she" placeholder with the appropriate "he" or "she" and this without having to create a visible question male/female ?

You could prepend the name answer codes with an "M" or "F" depending on gender. Then, in the subsequent questions, you can use the Expression Manager substr() function in an IF() statement to detect that first character and show the appropriate pronoun.

Thanks that will probably do the trick. Just some clarifications, because I am a real no(o)b with Limesurvey, How would you "prepend" 'M' or 'F' in the answercode ? or is it in the answerbox ?

thanks, I feared it was in the answercode (as you stated in your original answer). I will have to change my codes because in some cases they already consist of 5 characters (and the maximum characterlength for the answercode is 5).

thanks again for your solution !!

greetings

thomas

I tried the solution Tony gave.

the code works only half
I put this code in my question {if(substr(A41,1,0)=='V','hij','zij'} .

Question A41 has a dropdown menu (the possible answercodes are A41A, A41B, A41C,...) In the codes that refer to a female employee I put a "V" before the code (so I get VA41A,VA41B,...) the result is that in my question the word "zij" (dutch for she) appears, which is what I want, however the codes without V also give "zij" as a result.

what am I doing wrong ?

Sample survey attached:

Thanks Tony,

I've found my mistake. I thought it was sufficient to leave out a letter for the opposite sex (so I had "V" before female names, and I left the code unchanged for the males), but apparently I needed to put a letter in the male codes also.

Now it works like a charm.

thanks

thomas

Still have a small problem, when I combine these codes, they all give a response.

example.

code in the question is

blablabla {if(substr(A41,1,0)=='V','he',shej'} {if(substr(A42,1,0)=='V','he','she'} {if(substr(A43,1,0)=='V','he','she'} {if(substr(A44,1,0)=='V','he','she'} blablabla.

So even when there is no answer to question A41,A42 and A43 and only A44 gets answered, I still get sheshesheshe instead of a single she.


Is there a solution to make these "she" answers invisible when not answered ?

I had no idea you are using several name questions. In that case, you will need to use nested IF statements. What letters are you using foe the male and female answer codes?

the codes are like this

VA41A MA42A
MA41B MA42B
VA41C VA42C

so, the 'V' is for females and the 'M' for males.

The reason I'm using different dropdownmenu's (and different questions A41,A42,...)is because I want to filter out names, so the dropdownmenu with names doesn't become too long.

People first get the question which department the employee works and then on which floor. Each answer is linked to a dropdownmenu.

Okay, in that case, something like this which effectively says for each name question:
- If the answer is "V", pronoun is "she"
- Else If the answer is "M", pronoun is "he"
- Else the pronoun is null


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Hey Tony,

I can't make it to work. The placeholder keeps turning up empty. I copyed the string of code down here, I think I copied your code literally.

what's wrong ? can you help ?


heeft zich hulpvaardig (aanspreekbaar en luisterend) opgesteld en/of heeft mij/de cliënt geholpen op een vriendelijke manier en/of doorverwezen. heeft antwoord op mijn vragen en de nodige praktische informatie gegeven. {if (substr(A41, 1, 0)=='V', 'she', if (substr(A41, 1, 0)=='M', 'he', ' '))} heeft het gevraagde werk afgeleverd binnen de afgesproken periode.

Well, I'm confused. Now you're back to one question?

No no, there is still need for the other questions (A42,A43,A44,...) but to save me some time I'm first trying with the one code to see if that works and then build further, but the code with just A41 is already giving error, to be precise it gives nothing.