Hello,

I have a question that adds up the total quantity of MLs based on what the user enters. At first the total was working but then I added conditionals into the questions and that broke the addition question. Is there a way to have an addition question for conditional questions?
To better explain, I have attached the question group.

Thanks for your time!

- Tori

Limesurvey  Version 5.3.8+220404

Please, never send lsq nor lsg export.
Only lss
​​​​​​Copy the survey, remove everything not related to your question and send this as lss.

But I am rather sure that you didn't use ".NAOK".
Without this the function "sum" will fail if one part is missing.

Joffm

Apologies! Did not know that wasn't allowed. You were correct, I was missing the ".NAOK"

Thank you for your help!

Apologies! Did not know that wasn't allowed.

It is allowed to send LSG or LSQ files. But we don't like it, because it means more work for us. We are all volunteers and do this in our spare time.

You can still send .lsq and .lsg files, but if you want answers, it is better to send .lss files (with only the relevant parts, not all 20.000 questions in your little monster questionnaire).

And we do not like it, because lsq and lsg files are language sensitive.
You can't import such a file into a survey with a different base language.
So we have to create a survey guessing the base language of your export (or opening the export file in an editor to investigate there) and have to create a group, only to be able to import a lsq file.
Not to mention that this way we do not see any survey wide setting that may be important (e.g. "question by question" vs. "group by group")

As @holch, we all are volunteers and do this work in our spare time to help other users.
And therefore we hope (but also expect) that these users ease our life as much as possible.

Anyway, i am glad to hear that you solved your small problem.

Joffm

 

Would it be worth a feature request that we can coerce importing the lsg/lsg into the survey, no matter what the base language is?

So (with an extra switch that says: import anyway) even if the base language of the question/group is swahili, you import it in your own base language?

tammo wrote:

Would it be worth a feature request that we can coerce importing the lsg/lsg into the survey, no matter what the base language is?
 

Well, it depends on who you're asking.In the forum nearly everyone will support your idea. If you're a developer, you couldn't care less. Someone in forum will educate the user about the issues around lsg and lsq.

A export format which can contain themes and lss in one file would be useful too

When I look at the current job offers at LimeSurvey.we will see a lot of refactoring going on the next 12 months.
I see Yii-3 PHP Framework, React JS, Typescript, Bootstrap 5 and Redis.
The switch to Yii3 in the backend and to ReactJS in the frontend will mean a lot of work.
careers.limesurvey.org/jobs/Careers/3881...8/Front-End-Engineer
 

Thank you everyone for your input. I have an additional question. I have two questions a and b, that gathers the quantity the users enter (one for blood and another for colloids) and I want to make a question that calculates the total of a b. How can I do that? I tried Total = {(a.NAOK + b.NAOK)} but that doesn't seem to work.

Thanks!

- Tori

Oh, oh,

a and b are questions of type "text display".
That means "a.NAOK" is nothing, because there are nodata stored.

Ought to be "equation".

Joffm