Hi everyone.

I have five groups in my survey. Groups 1 and 2 are always shown. But I would like to show either group 3, group 4 or group 5 based on an answer given in Group 1. Is this at all possible? I tried my hand at this by entering a condition in the "Relevance" field in each group's summary section. Here is what I entered (in bold):

Show Group 3 if "Q2 == A1" or "Q3 == A1"
Show Group 4 if "Q2 == A2"
Show Group 5 if "Q2 == A3" or "Q3 == A2"

At the moment all three groups are displayed, regardless of what the conditions say/don't say.

Is there a way of doing what I'm trying to do? If not, is there an alternative method that could help me achieve what I want? (Side note: there are about 20 questions in each group, so creating conditions for each one individually is going to be a bit tedious..)

Thanks so much!
Ilana

Hi,

I think you should specify Q1.NAOK == "A1" || Q3.NAOK == "A1" (where .NAOK means "No Answer OK") etc....
(assuming your questions aren't arrays or multiple choice).

Hi

I've also tried that, with no success. My questions are radio lists, so that's probably why this didn't work.

But thank you for your reply. I'll try typing it the way you did, maybe that's the key to getting it to work!

If A1 is the answer code, it should work. If A1 is the answer that's displayed, then you should use: Q1.shown == "A1".

I've changed the relevance equations to:

Show Group 3 if Q2 == "A1" || Q3 == "A1"
Show Group 4 if Q2 == "A2"
Show Group 5 if Q2 == "A3" || Q3 == "A2"

The Group 4's display works perfectly now. (THANK YOU! ) However, Groups 3 and 5 aren't displayed at all now. At first, I thought it was the ||, so I changed it back to or again, with still no luck. Could it be that there are two equations in one?

Can you export your survey as an lss file and upload it here, so I can have a look?
Or check your survey's logic file first...

Hi. Here is my lss file. Thank you very much for your help.

To simplify the post's explanation I used Q1, Q2 and Q3, but here are the actual question codes, so that you'll find them in the lss file.

Show Group 3 (Technical Description: Data) if RT2 == "A1" or RT3 == "A1"
Show Group 4 (Technical Description: Models) if RT2 == "A2"
Show Group 5 (Technical Description: Software) if RT2 == "A3" or RT3 == "A2"

I can reproduce your issue here. Running out of time now, hope to be able to get back to you after the weekend!

Hello, Ilana,

as vanderstarre said you have to use "NAOK"
"RT2.NAOK == "A3" or RT3.NAOK == "A2""
That's because RT2 might not be asked because of the answer in RT1.

See attached example.

Best regards
Joffm

If you don't want to use "RT2.NAOK == 'A3' ", an alternative is "RT2.shown == 'Model' " etc.... (there the .NAOK is implicit). This will also make your survey logic more obvious, but on the other hand, if your answer description changes, you'll have to change the relevance equation as well.
Cheers, Frank

Success! It finally worked. I changed the relevance equations to:

Show Group 3 if: RT2.NAOK == "A1" OR RT3.NAOK == "A1"
Show Group 4 if: RT2.NAOK == "A2"
Show Group 5 if: RT2.NAOK == "A3" OR RT3.NAOK == "A2"

Thank you so much, everyone. I really appreciate your assistance.

Have an awesome week!