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7 years 3 months ago #162304 by davebostockgmail
Display groups in random order (not questions within groups) was created by davebostockgmail
I have searched for an answer to this to no avail so I am just putting this out there to see if there is a workaround or an easy solution ...

Current version of Limesurvey is 2.6.4-lts

What I need to do is display groups of questions in a random or rotated order ... not the questions within groups...

The survey is set up to display question by question.

So what I have is as follows ....

Group C1
Question C1a
Question C1b

Group C2
Question C2a
Question C2b

Group C3
Question C3a
Question C3b

Group C4
Question C4a
Question C4b

Now I know with the "Group Randomise" set I can randomise the questions in each group but what I need is to see the Groups randomised so to a respondent it could show as

C2 / C4 / C1 / C3

or

C3 /C4 / C2 / C1 etc...

The questions within the groups would remain in the correct order QXa -> QXb

Thank you in advance for any thoughts you may have on this.
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7 years 3 months ago #162336 by tpartner
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You can randomize group order by entering a common value in the "Randomization group" field for all groups - www.limesurvey.org/manual/Question_group...estion_group_actions

Sample survey attached:

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File Name: limesurvey...1231.lss
File Size:16 KB
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7 years 3 months ago #162337 by davebostockgmail
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Perfect .. thank you
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6 years 6 months ago - 6 years 6 months ago #175653 by angerbkn
Replied by angerbkn on topic Display groups in random order (not questions within groups)
Unfortunately the randomization doesn't seem to work with my configuration. I had the problem with my own survey and now downloaded your survey, but always the same order is shown.
My specs:
testing Limesurvey on the XAMPP Installation on Windows 10 (limesurvey3.14.10+180924-on-xampp)
Firefox 62.03 on the question viewing end.
Any thoughts on why it doesn't work?
Is there a quick workaround?

Thanks!

Additional Info: I tried uploading the sample survey on your demo page, the randomization doesn't work there either.
Last edit: 6 years 6 months ago by angerbkn.
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6 years 6 months ago #175663 by holch
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Tested it on the demo and seems like the group randomization does not work. Sounds like you found a bug and you can report it in the bug tracker.
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6 years 2 months ago #180825 by Mazi
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holch wrote: Tested it on the demo and seems like the group randomization does not work. Sounds like you found a bug and you can report it in the bug tracker.

We have just created a lengthy explanation of the different Limesurvey randomization features and that included group randomization. It worked fine for us using the latest Limesurvey version.
Here is a link to the setup and a link to a sample survey .

You can test the whole sample survey with all randomization features at this link .
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