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1 year 4 weeks ago #253225 by nadica123
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Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible to export the order of which answer options are displayed to a respondent, since I have questions where the answer options are rotating each time the question is opened. I'm not seeing such option in the export menu of the survey. Does that mean it is not possible?

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1 year 4 weeks ago #253230 by tpartner
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There is no built-in facility for that. You will need to use JavaScript to write the order to a hidden question.
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1 year 4 weeks ago #253232 by Joffm
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My question is "Why do you display answer options in random order?"
Answer: To avoid a bias because of the order.
In this case it is not necessary to know anything about the order.

OR:
Your goal is to analyse the effect of different orders.
Let's say there are 6 answer options.
You will get 720 different ways they are displayed.
How will you analyse this.

Here you should create a controlled scenario.
Meaning: You define some orders, which you are interested in (option 2 before option 4 vs  option 2 after option 4, etc.)
Then you display these different questions by a random number.

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1 year 4 weeks ago #253237 by nadica123
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Thank you for your answer,

This was a request by the client for which the survey was made, as they wanted to have the order of the options besides the answers in the exported file, for what purpose I am not sure.
Since they didn't have any special requests regarding the order I'm assuming they just wanted to avoid bias.

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1 year 4 weeks ago #253238 by nadica123
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Hi,

the question is not hidden, so not sure what you meant by hidden question. Will JavaScript work for regular questions?
How do you suggest this script to be implemented, for each question individually?


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1 year 4 weeks ago #253241 by Joffm
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you meant by hidden question.

As you do not want to display this order to the respondent, you have to hide the question.

 
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1 year 4 weeks ago - 1 year 4 weeks ago #253249 by tpartner
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How do you suggest this script to be implemented, for each question individually?
Yes, you would need a hidden question for every question you want the order recorded for.
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1 year 4 weeks ago #253251 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic Export the order of question options
You can use this script

Place your hidden question of type "short text" right after the question in the same group.

Place this code into the question 
Code:
    $(document).on('ready pjax:scriptcomplete',function(){
        
        //Identify the questions
        var thisQuestion = $('#question{QID}');
        var hiddenQuestion = $(thisQuestion).nextAll('.text-short:eq(0)');
        
        // Create an array of answer codes
        var answerCodes = [];
        $('li.answer-item', thisQuestion).each(function(i) {
            answerCodes.push($(this).attr('id').split('X{QID}')[1]);
        });
        
        // Load the hidden question
        $('input:text', hiddenQuestion).val(answerCodes);
        
    });
</script>
 

 

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1 year 4 weeks ago #253300 by nadica123
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Thank you Joffm,

I will try this.

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1 year 3 weeks ago #253305 by nadica123
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This code doesn't work for me, I added it in the code for the short text hidden question, but I end up with empty field where the order should be written.

I am using this version 6.3.4+231108

Not sure why it doesn't record the order in the question

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1 year 3 weeks ago #253316 by holch
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How do you hide the question? Via the GUI with "always hide this question"?

This won't work because if the question is hidden this way, it does not appear in the source code and thus Javascript can not write to it.
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1 year 3 weeks ago #253343 by Joffm
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Just to prove that it works.
Here in fruity 23


I hope you did not forget to add the starting <script> tag.

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