Hi,I would like to implement a word association task. In the task, participants are asked to type five words as responses to a stimulus word.My aim is to pipe these five words into two later questions — not into the text of the question, but as the answer options in a rating/ranking question. For example:

• Q1: “Please type the first five words that come to mind when you hear the term sustainable nutrition.”
• Q2: “Now, please rank the five words you wrote according to their importance.”
• Q3: “Please rate how positively or negatively you associate each of the five words with open access.”

So, I would like the five words entered in Q1 to automatically appear as the answer choices in Q2 and Q3, where participants can then assign ratings or rankings.I have tried to achieve this, but could not find the right way to configure it. Could you please advise me on how to use these entries as answer options in subsequent ranking/rating questions?

Hi,
I assume that your first question "Q1" is of type "multiple short text".
As you read in the manual
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...#Access_to_variables [/url]

QCode.code or QCode: the selected response code for the question if it is relevant (otherwise blank), or the text value if it is not a coded question

the QCode contains the text value - a "text" question is not coded.
Coded questions are "list(radio)", array, etc.

Now, what is the QCode of your question Q1?
This you see here
[url] www.limesurvey.org/manual/ExpressionScri...code_variable_naming [/url]

In general, Qcodes are constructed as:
QuestionCode . '_' . SubQuestionID
QuestionCode . '_' . SubQuestionYID . '_' . SubQuestionXId
QuestionCode . '_' . SubQuestionID . '_' . ScaleId

So depending on your way to code the subquestions of Q1 you enter in Q2 as answer options {Q1_1}, {Q1_2}, ...
And the same in Q3.


But I am not sure if Q3 really is an array (because of 

with open access

But it makes no difference.

BTW: Is it mandatory to enter 5 words?
If not you could use  an array filter in Q2 and Q3.

Joffm