Hello,

I have a short text question where I ask for the address of the respondent (name of the municipality).

As I have a long list of municipalities (about 8000) , I have created a CSV file (according to: stackoverflow.com/questions/27803669/lim...uto-complete-feature and www.limesurvey.org/manual/Workarounds:_M...ime_using_Javascript ).

I have two problems about the question:

1. The names of the municipalities are not shown correctly in the case they contain special codes for Italy (è, ì, ù, à, ò), i.e. "Agliè" becomes "Agli" + a strange character and this happens also after adding charset=iso-8859-1 in the script.
The script attached to the question is:
<script type="text/javascript"; charset=iso-8859-1"; src="{TEMPLATEURL}jquery.csv-0.71.js"></script><script>

var url = "{TEMPLATEURL}comun.csv";
$(function() {
var qID = {QID};
var comuni = new Array();

$.get(url,function(data){
// Convert CSV contents to an array of arrays
fullArray = $.csv.toArrays(data);

// Load the data array
$(fullArray).each(function(i, item){
comuni.push(item[0]);
});


// Initialise the autocomplete plugin
$('#question'+qID+' input.text').autocomplete({
source: comuni
});

// console.log(data);
});
});</script>Address:

I enclose here the survey code:
and the csv file:

2. Is there a way to save in a new variable (possibly not visible to the respondent) the code of the municipality, instead of the name? In this case the csv file (I enclose here a sample ) should be something like:
municipality1 code1
municipality2 code2
municipality3 code3
and so on

Kind regards,
Elo

P.S. I use LS 2.06+ Build 151215

Hi Eleonor,
Have you already seen this post ?

Hi Eloner,

1) The CSV files need to be encoded UTF8 to display those characters correctly. You can set the encoding in a good plain-text editor like Notepad++ (or perhaps in LibreOffice Calc). After setting the encoding, avoid editing the files in MS Office Excel - it is horrible at handling CSVs - use Calc instead. I have included your two CSVs encoded to UTF8 in the template attached below.

2) You can use the autocomplete "select" event to populate a text question with the code (column 2 in comecode.csv). In Q1 of the attached survey, you will find the script below that:
- Identifies the next short-text question
- Hides that question (commented out for testing)
- Uses the autocomplete plugin for the "Address" question
- Uses the autocomplete "select" event to populate the next short-text question


Attached are a template (install this first) and a sample survey.

I have tested tpartner's example.
It works very well (so, thank you again!).
I suggest to change this code in the script:
var nextQuestion = $('#question'+qID).nextAll('.text-short');
with this:
var nextQuestion = $('#question'+qID).next('.text-short');
(just to avoid to display the code in each of the following short-text questions).
If someone wants to use the script, remember to copy the file jquery.csv-0.71.js in the template's folder.
Cheers,
Enzo

Oops, sorry Eloner, that was a typo and should have been : So it would have only selected the first instance of ".text-short".