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2 years 3 months ago #223490 by JSamarov
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  • I have 3 Multiple choice questions: Q1, Q2 and Q3
    • Q1 allows Other and input.
  • Q2 is an Array filter: Q1 (including Other by means of {Q1_other} and Relevance !is_empty(Q1_other.NAOK)
  • Q3 is an Array filter: Q2 , which also needs to re-populate Other mentioned in Q2 if selected again.
This nesting of filters does work except the Other input from Q2 into Q3. Is there a way around this? Q1, Q2, and Q3 screen shots attached.

 

 

 
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2 years 3 months ago #223493 by Joffm
Hi,
unfortunately you did not show your setup of the questions.

I do not see any issue
 

with this setting of the subquestions of Q2
 
without any relevance equation

and exactly the same in Q3
 

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2 years 3 months ago - 2 years 3 months ago #223496 by JSamarov
Hi Joffm, thanks for looking into this.
It does work if Q3's "other" is filtered on Q1.
Yet I'm trying to carry "other" over from Q2.

Hope it make sense?

In other words, if Q1's "other" is ticked, then it's shown in Q2. If it's ticked again in Q2 then it's shown in Q3, otherwise it's not shown in Q3.
In your example above, in theory, Q3 needs to have {Q2_other}. Though, clearly it doesn't work that way hence the post :)
Thanks again!!
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2 years 3 months ago #223499 by holch
I guess you need to create the subquestion relevance for this item to show in Q3 based on Q2, but you need to pipe the text of this response from Q1.

If you want further help, please attach a LSS file with only the relevant questions (copy your survey, delete everything that isn't necessary for the problem, export it and upload it here).

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2 years 3 months ago - 2 years 3 months ago #223502 by JSamarov
Hi holch )
Please see attached.
In the original design there's also Q4 that needs to pull "Other" from Q3 but it's the same principle.
So I've left it in.
Thank you very much for looking into this!
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2 years 3 months ago #223506 by jelo
In Q2 you have no "other field" you can reference to. It's "Q2_SQ007. If you activate the other option in Q2 you would have an additional other field. That would be Q2_other.

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2 years 3 months ago #223511 by tpartner
It seems to me that you should reference {Q1_other} in all other questions as this is the only place to enter text.

Additionally, you don't need the sub-question relevance in Q3 or Q4 - the simple array-filter will do.

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2 years 3 months ago #223512 by holch
Your problem is, as I described before, that you are referring in Q3 to {Q2_other}. There is no "other" in Q2. So Limesurvey can't find it, of course.

It is actually SQ007. So you would need to refer to it as {Q2_SQ007}. However, for piping in the text, you most probably need to use {Q1_other} for all of them, because you can't pipe an already piped text into another question, if you know what I mean?

You also can't use this relevance equation in Q3, because as I said, there is no "other" option in Q2:
Code:
!is_empty(Q2_other.NAOK)

Also you need to address it completely different, as this is now a normal subquestion item of a multiple answer question.

You'll need something like:
Code:
Q2_SQ007=="Y"

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2 years 3 months ago - 2 years 3 months ago #223515 by holch
OK, so I was too slow, Tpartner was quicker. But here also my LSS, I kept the subquestion relevance equations but corrected them to what you need.

There were several problems:
- There is no Q2_other or Q3_other, but only Q2_SQ007 and Q3_SQ007. In Q2, Q3 and Q4 this is a "normal" subquestion, no other field anymore, so you can't access it via {questioncode_other}, but need to use {questioncode_subquestioncode}

Similar to that, the relevance equation with "!is_empty" won't work, for the same reason. You need to check if the specific subquestion has been checked with something like {questioncode_subquestioncode=="Y"}. Actually, thinking about it, !is_empty probably will work too, but you can't reference it with "questioncode_other". This still stands.

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2 years 3 months ago #223520 by JSamarov
Thank you so much, guys!! 
This community is simply incredible. 
I've followed your guidance and got it working! :)

Attached is the final working version - for posterity ;)   
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