Hi everyone,

I have a list of country names that I want to present to my respondents. I would like to have one country on the top of the list, as 80% of respondents will be from that country (Netherland). At the same time I want all other countries to be sorted alphabetically. This on itself is no problem, as I can pre-sort country names and then add them to my Netherlands-entry. But my survey is bilingual, with Dutch being the main language and English the second. Country names in Dutch are different from their English counterparts, meaning that somehow I need the function "sort alphabetically" while excluding one entry from this function. Is this possible?
Thank you in advance.

Best wishes,
Pascal

I don't think this is possible. Maybe you can do something with Javascript. But I think the sort order is only available for the main language, and then the other language is probably in the same order of countries, even if not in alphabetical order. But I am not 100%, because I hardly use bilingual studies.

Thank you for your answer, holch. I also did not find anything while googling this problem. Bad luck I guess.

It's not "bad luck".

You have a lot of options.

1. Split the question. Order the names in both question according to your wishes. Dislay depending on the language. Variable LANG (LANG=='nl', ...
2. Use an array(text) with drop-down layout (many examples here in the forum)
This very flexible one week ago.
[url] forums.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-thi...-islamic-date#229197 [/url]
But there are many more
[url] forums.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-thi...cific-columns#226861 [/url]

a. Insert the names depending on the language with an IF-statement in javascript

b. Use two subquestions one with the names in Dutch, one in English; display the subquestions by subquestion relevance (again: LANG=='nl', LANG=='en')

Joffm

Here is a post describing how to sort the drop-down options - forums.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-thi...lly-alphasort#172142

And here the easy and in some way obvious solution.
Start the country you want to be at first place with a blank.
Here you see (version 3.27.17)
 



With these answer options
German, blank before " Deutschland"
 

Spanish, blank before " Espana"
 


As @holch already mentioned, I also seem to remember that some time - some versions - ago this multilingual sort didn't work.
Anyway you should consider an update of your 4 years old version.

Joffm

Thank you tpartner and Joffm for your answers. Since I don't have any experience with javascript, I went with your extra blank space approach Joffm - and it worked perfectly fine. Thank you! However, I saved the scripts that you provided to play around with them when I have the time.

Hopefully we will be able to update LS in the near future!

Best,
Pascal