Hi guys,
I am new with limesurvey and do not know/understand all the functionalities. I have studied some of the questions on the forum but did not manage how to set up the survey they way I need. Basically, I would like to have an array type question having the subquestions of different types: number and text values. I noticed that the basic settings allow either number or text values but not both.
The survey aims to evaluate some teachers on several dimensions/questions.
Attached you can find the type of array that I would like to generate:
- first column/question 1 would be number type with values between 1 to 5
- second column / question 2 would be text
- third column / question 3 would be text
- fourth column / question 4 would be a list box with 4 values: a, b, c, d
I attach also the survey sample.
Your help is really appreciated - and I say this after more than 6 hours spent on this. I realized that there is a need to write some javascript code for that which I did (managed to have the question array looked the way I wanted but the columns modified were not saved when the survey was executed - I guess I do not understand how it really functions).
Thanks a lot for your time and help.
Florian
 

LimeSurvey version?

Can you post the code that you tried?

Version 2.72.3+171020

Code that I tried:

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code

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<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(document).ready(function() {
// Identify the questions
var thisQuestion = $('#question{QID}');
var qHidden = thisQuestion.nextAll('.text-short:eq(0)');
var hiddenInput = $('input.text', qHidden);



var table = $( "tbody" );

$(table).children('tr').each(function () {
var td = $(this).children("td").eq(3);
var class_name = td.prop('class');
var text_input =`<td class="answer-cell-4 answer_cell_x4 answer-item text-item">
<label class="visible-xs-block read" for="answer931976X1064X21119Y4_x4">Question 4</label>
<input type="hidden" name="java931976X1064X21119Y4_x4" id="java931976X1064X21119Y4_x4"/>
<input type="text" name="931976X1064X21119Y4_x4" id="answer931976X1064X21119Y4_x4" class="form-control " size="12" value=""/>
</td>`
td.removeClass(class_name);
var new_class_name = "answer-cell-5 answer_cell_x4 question-item answer-item text-item";
td.addClass(new_class_name);
td.html(text_input);
});

$(table).children('tr').each(function () {
var td = $(this).children("td").eq(2);
var class_name = td.prop('class');
var text_input =`<td class="answer-cell-5 answer_cell_x3 question-item answer-item dropdown-item ">
<input type="hidden" name="java931976X1064X21119Y1_x2" id="java931976X1064X21119Y1_x3" value=""/>
<label for="answer931976X1064X21119Y1_x3" class='col-xs-12 col-sm-12'></label>
<div class="text-right visible-xs" id="label-answer931976X1064X21119Y1_x3">Question 3</div>
<select class="multiflexiselect form-control text-right"
name="931976X1064X21119Y1_x3"
id="answer931976X1064X21119Y1_x3"
onchange="fixnum_checkconditions(this.value, this.name, this.type)"
aria-labelledby="label-answer931976X1064X21119Y1_x3">
<option value="">...</option>
<option value="a" >1</option>
<option value="b" >2</option>
<option value="c" >3</option>
<option value="d" >4</option>
</select>
</td>`
td.removeClass(class_name);
var new_class_name = "answer-cell-5 answer_cell_x3 question-item answer-item text-item";
td.addClass(new_class_name);
td.html(text_input);
});

$(table).children('tr').each(function () {
var td = $(this).children("td").eq(1);
var class_name = td.prop('class');
var text_input =`<td class="answer-cell-4 answer_cell_x2 answer-item text-item">
<label class="visible-xs-block read" for="answer931976X1064X21119Y4_x4">Question 2</label>
<input type="hidden" name="java931976X1064X21119Y4_x2" id="java931976X1064X21119Y4_x2"/>
<input type="text" name="931976X1064X21119Y4_x2" id="answer931976X1064X21119Y4_x2" class="form-control " size="12" value=""/>
</td>`
td.removeClass(class_name);
var new_class_name = "answer-cell-5 answer_cell_x2 question-item answer-item text-item";
td.addClass(new_class_name);
td.html(text_input);
});

});
</script>

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end code

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For questions 2 and 4, the field displayed is text, as I need. For question 3, the options 1,2,3,4,5 are still the ones for generals settings and not a,b,c,d as I want. Also, none of the responses for questions 2 and 4 are saved - which means maybe the code modifies only the display of the questions in the front-end with no effect in back-end.

Thanks for any idea on that.

Your LimeSurvey version is very old but that code is for a version far older.

It's easier to insert drop-downs into an array-texts type question.

Add this script to the questions source:
 
 


Sample survey attached: 

This worked very well and was exactly what I was looking for. I am really impressed and I thank you very much!
Hats off, Tony!