Hi All


I've tried to use the manual but it really doesn't make any sense to me in terms of what and where I need to enter the expressions/validations etc to achieve what I'm trying to do

I basically want to enforce a numeric response in the comments box from a multiple choice (unless there is a better question layout to use)

Thanks

DB

Hi, DB,
well, in my opinion there are other options:
Now the respondent selects an item and then has to enter a numeric value into the comment box?
In an multiple numerical input the respondent only enters the numerical values into the selected cells - others stay empty.
You get the same information: Which item was selected and which value was entered.

But in your case:
You know how this question type is stored in the answer table.
You see it there:


So the question validation equation could be:
The comment box is either empty or the entered value is numeric.
In
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Expression_Man...mplemented_functions
you find exactly these two needed functions

• is_empty: Determine whether a variable is considered to be empty
• is_numeric: Finds whether a variable is a number or a numeric string

We said "The comment box is either empty or the entered value is numeric."
Meaning:
is_empty(Q1_SQ001comment) OR is_numeric(Q1_SQ001comment)

This you validate for all subquestions:
(is_empty(Q1_SQ001comment) OR is_numeric(Q1_SQ001comment)) AND
(is_empty(Q1_SQ002comment) OR is_numeric(Q1_SQ002comment)) AND
...
(is_empty(Q1_SQ00Xcomment) OR is_numeric(Q1_SQ00Xcomment))

Joffm

By the way, here are a few other ways to ask this questions:

built-in




with javascript