Hi All,

New to Limesurvey.

I am making a survey that asks questions about specific university courses ("course review"). I want to have two questions to allow the respondent to select the course that they want to review by department and code. The first question would have a dropdown with the available department codes and a second question would have a dropdown of courses based on the selected department.

For example, the first question has a dropdown with the following options:
A Art
B Business
C Computer Science

The second dropdown has the following options in all:
A101 Renaissance Painting
A102 Digital Photography
A201 Sculpture
B101 Entrepreneurship
B201 Creative Accounting
C101 Introduction to Javascript
C201 Advanced Program Logic
C202 User Interfaces

If I select "C Computer Science" for the first question, I should have the following answers available for the second question:
C101 Introduction to Javascript
C201 Advanced Program Logic
C202 User Interfaces

I think that we are using Limesurvey 2.something (our Sysadmin is on holiday until 4 January).

Any help would be much appreciated.

Yours,

Chris Litfin
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

If Q1 is a single-choice, why not simply have several Q2s, shown conditionally on the Q1 answer?

Hi Tony,

Thanks for your suggestion. I had thought of doing that, but I have about 1200 courses spread over 125 departments. I would rather not have to manually set up a question for each department.

Unless there is a way to batch-create or batch-upload questions based on a set of possible values (say, in a .csv)?

Yours,
Chris Litfin
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sorry, found this www.limesurvey.org/manual/Excel_Survey_Structure
about 30 second after I posted. That, I can handle.

But once I get my 125 questions made, how do I get one definitive "answer" that I can refer to in subsequent questions? Some sort of hidden question that looks at which of the preceding questions has a non-blank answer?

CL

I'm not sure what you mean by one definitive "answer" but it seems to me that you have around 10 courses per department so I think normal Conditions or Expression Manager relevance should work fine.

I'm trying to do something similar; I'm trying to set up a survey where you have a dropdown list of departments and then a dropdown list of teams, so:

Q5 What Department:
Code A - Answer A
Code B - Answer B
Code C - Answer C

Q6 What Team:
A1 - A1
A2 - A2
B1 - B1
B2 - B2
Etc

Then ideally if people haven't selected a department then the full list should be visible as one question, then the answers get masked depending on what you select. Is there a solution that's neater than just having dozens of different variations of Q6?

There is an old workaround here that will require some modification.

I think Denis also has a solution for filtering counties or cities that should work but I can't find it at the moment.