I have used multiple short answers for a section including gathering name, email, phone, etc. Is there a way to add validation to these individual subquestions? I know regular expressions can be used for email addresses, zip codes, and phone numbers, but I haven't found a way to implement this.

I have been searching the manual, and have found the regular expression codes, but cannot find where exactly to put them to make them work.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

as far as I know it's not possible. I would use single questions.

I read somewhere, that this option exists in the newest version, but I can't really tell how this works.

Thanks...if I can't figure out the sub-question route then I'll definite do this. It's nice to know it just isn't there.

I just upgraded to the newest version, but I can't see where to validate subquestions. If you have any idea where to point me, I'll be happy to try.

Thanks!

The optimal way to validate sub-questions has not been implemented. Ideally, there would be a regex validation equation per sub-question so you could have different ones for each part of a multiple-short text. That doesn't exist yet (and probably won't for quite a while unless you know of volunteers with time to implement it).

However, you can fake it using the Whole question validation and Tip for whole question validation options.

Here is a working example.



Say your question is "q1", and your sub-questions are "name", "email", and "phone", you could set the Whole question validation to:

This will ensure that the user enters a valid email and phone number (in this case, a non-answer is also accepted via is_empty()).

Then, to tailor the validation message, you would use this for the Tip for whole question validation .

As you can see, you are using the exact same validation expression for q1_email and q1_phone, you're just surrounding it with:

And here are some screen shots:

Hello TMSWhite, Got it!! For the others with same issue. Go to question. Go to advanced settings. Fill in the validation in 'Question validation equation' and the tip in 'Question validation tip'. The tip validates the same and shows the error message. q1 is your question code and email is sub question code. Good luck. And thanks TMSWhite.

janwillem64 wrote: Hello TMSWhite, Got it!! For the others with same issue. Go to question. Go to advanced settings. Fill in the validation in 'Question validation equation' and the tip in 'Question validation tip'. The tip validates the same and shows the error message. q1 is your question code and email is sub question code. Good luck. And thanks TMSWhite.

Please add a note to the manual as well so other benefit from the findings, too.

I've updated the manual here .

Thanks! This topic has helped me a lot!

But I have another question: How can you localize the error message?
I have to create a survey in german and english. The error message should be in the selected language!

For 1.92, you can do this:

For 2.0, I'd recommend making this field one of those that can be translated into multiple languages via the quick translation feature.

Hello,

Can use pseudo class lang too in template.css:

And in template.css
Denis