Sorry, but did you ever do an analysis with nested breaks?
Did you ever work with a pivot table or did a tabulation in SPSS?
In the result table of slave you only have to filter the desired year, the desired term, and you see everything you want.
Do you know the EXCEL formula "concat" (I am not sure if it is called so in English).
If you really thing you need it, concatenate year,semester,couse in the result table.
I didn't understand condition regarding semester.
RTFM:
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Expression_Man...mplemented_Functions
and
www.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php
Did you adapt the links to your environment?
You have a working example, now it's up to you.
You see the logic, and should be able to change it to your wishes.
I only used built-in functions of LimeSurvey.
To be honest:
I didn't see that you did anything up to now.
I told you that it's up to you to create the first survey till there are the selected courses.
And you delivered a survey with just a drop-down with the departments.
So, read the manual, study the demo surveys which all are in the demo installation.
I spent a lot of my time to help you although I was very busy this week.
One last tip:
there is the general link of the "slave" survey in your LS program.
Just add the necessary parameters manually,
e.g.
&pSAVE=111&pCOURSE=111122223333 ( length=multiple of 4) or whatever you want and start it.
and set the questions to "not hidden" to see what happens.
And I hope you activated both surveys. Otherwise end-url doesn't work.
Regards
Joffm