Hi' all, I m a real beginner and hope this ? is not vasting your time. I am running LS 3.21.1+191210 on debian 10.
In a survey I display the respondents Q & A on a text display page using codes given here

www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...e_using_placeholders

For one Q&A pair of type dropdown I get the proper respons for the Q, but "-oth" for the answer. This is obviously wrong, as none of the answers includes this string - but I cannot find the reason for this (to the best of my limited knowledge) misbehaviour.
Any help is appriciated.

Post thoughts..
I seems as if this respons comes only, for the choice "Other in the dropdown (a not-in question setting). Also the choice "Other" results in an extra question that prompts the respondent to elaborate on "Other". This elaboration does not have a qid how is that?

-oth- stands for "other", obviously. It means that the responde "other" was chosen. I never use this question type, but probably with Qx_other you should be able to access the response.

Qx == your question code. Next time, provide a LSS-Export of just the relevant part of the survey (copy the survey, delete everything necessary in this copy and export it as LSS).

This way we can see what you are doing and how your structure works.

I seems as if this respons comes only, for the choice "Other in the dropdown (a not-in question setting). Also the choice "Other" results in an extra question that prompts the respondent to elaborate on "Other". This elaboration does not have a qid how is that?

Exactly.
If you use the "Other" option in your question LS uses the code "-oth-" to store this.
Which code do you expect? LS can't know how you coded the answer options.
And how do you expect the "Other" to be captured. There has to be a text field to enter the answer.
And in the next column (called "QCode_other") the verbatim of this "Other" ist stored.

If you want to display the text of the given answer for the "normal" option and for the "other" option you have to use the IF-statement.
If the code ist "-oth-" diplay the "other" verbatim else display the answer option text.

{if(QCode=="-oth-",QCode_other,QCode.shown)}

Joffm

Thank you,

So far I got around the challenge by creating another question and just show it if the previous question is answered with "Other". I look forward to learning more about the syntax and possibilities in the Expression manager.