I am trying to build a two part question where the first uses a multiple short text question to ask participants to enter 3 personal goals. The second part is using an array filter to recall the text answers and rate how they performed on these. I have used the manual to get this going and it successfully sets up the likert scale numbers when any of the 3 answers are inputted to the first question, but the areas beside the likert scales remain blank, ie the answers aren't being recalled. Can anybody assist?

What did you enter as subquestions in your Likert array?
As you see here in the manual
www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...#Access_to_variables
you use "QCode.shown"
As your question is a multiple text input there are subquestions.

Again in the manual
www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...code_variable_naming you find the details of how to construct a Qcode (and access some properties) by question type.

In general, Qcodes are constructed as:

QuestionCode . '_' . SubQuestionID( . '_' . ScaleId)

Now you know how to access your entered texts (goals)

{Q1_SQ001.shown} ...

Here a screenshot.
I displayed both questions on one screen what is not the way you should do it.
If the respondent is not forced to enter all 3 goals, there is a subquestion relevance equation that the item in the Likert scale is only displayed it there is text in the previous question.






And here the subquestion editor


Don't case about the QX1; was my question code.

Joffm

That has resolved it. Thank you for your quickly reply Joffm