I'm trying to build a survey that has a substantial number of questions in the screening section and I'm really struggling with excluding ineligible participants. I know that you can set a zero quota to terminate the survey based on a response to a single question, however a crucial part of my screener involves a series of questions which results in a total score (out of 32). I want to exclude participants who get a score of 17 and above, therefore have set an equation question that gives a total score, but it is not possible to set a quota for this question type. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? Many thanks in advance!

You can use Equation question to set a value to an hidden question.
Or directly use "Deafult value" Expressin Manager for a Y/N question : and use this question for quota.

Denis

Thank you Denis, I think I know what you mean, just not sure exactly how to get there...

So I have 8 questions with 5 different answer choices, each corresponds to a score of 0-4. So max score would be 32. I want to exclude people who have a score over 16, and include people with a score less than or equal to 16.
So far I have an equation that calculates the total score (SCORE), then a hidden question (hidden) with 2 choices (1, screen out; 2, screen in). Then I have an equation question with the following equation in the text field: {hidden=if(SCORE = < 16, "1",if(SCORE > 16, "2"))}.
Would that then automatically set the answers for the hidden question, which I can then set a quota for?

Not sure if I'm on the right track or completely missed the point... any advice would be greatly appreciated!

mh16 wrote: ....
Would that then automatically set the answers for the hidden question, which I can then set a quota for?

Yes : you have it

Try with activate survey and set quota to 0.

And be sure to have a version with this solution working : 2.06lts and last 2.50 is OK. SOme 2.05, stop in a 2.06 , restart in another 2.06

Uh oh, I'm using the version provided on my University server and it's v 2.00+... the quotas don't appear to be working even when the survey is activated! thought i was so close to a solution!

Hi !
I'm trying to fix a quota ("add a question") based on a question "equation" (almost the same case than mh16: I created a hidden equation question which take 3 values according to the answer to a drop down menu of about 13 answers).

But equation questions don"t appear in the list of variables eligible to fix a quota...

Does anybody has a solution? Is there any other type of question which may do the job of an equation, AND which would be eligible to quota?

thank you !!

I think Denis has already answered your question.

Use Expression manager to either:

1. Set the answer to a hidden list-radio question
2. Set the default value of a hidden yes/no question

Tpartner
Sorry. I've been told that I can post the same post on the english forum and the french one (when it is urgent). That's why I posted on both... But if it is an issue for the forum, I stop doing it, of course.

Denis indeed provided an answer. great ! I'm now trying to understand it. May I transform the list of initial answers (13 modalities) to a hidden list-radio question with only 3 values? (my goal is to obtain a variable with only 3 values eligible to quotas)

thank you !

I've been told that I can post the same post on the english forum and the french one

You posted the same question in two English threads.

May I transform the list of initial answers (13 modalities) to a hidden list-radio question with only 3 values?

You can use an expression like this in an equation question.
- IF q1 > 6: qHidden will be set to 1
- ELSE IF q1 > 6: qHidden will be set to 2
- ELSE: qHidden will be set to 3