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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?

Thank you.

There is no built-in facility for that. You will need to use JavaScript to write the order to a hidden question.

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.

Joffm

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.

Have a nice day!

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?


Thank you.

you meant by hidden question.

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

 

nadica123 wrote:

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.

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   

 

Joffm

 

Thank you Joffm,

I will try this.

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

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.

Just to prove that it works.
Here in fruity 23


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

Joffm