I am trying to build a simple survey that will be sent to a specific group of people. For each question I have, I'd like to list the names of the people in the group as possible answers.

A use case could be:

Question: Who is your friend?
Answers: Simo
Mike
Jack

Ideally, it will be a searchable text field that lists the correct names as you type...

Of course, the list of people is known in advance and always the same for all the questions.

I don't think LimeSurvey offers this option out of the box, and I'd like to know what would be the correct way to put something like this in place. Any pointer to demo articles or pieces of code much appreciated, I am really a newbie here.

Thre is a workaround in the manual:
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Workarounds:_M...wers_for_text_inputs

with several options.

I suppose there are not too much names, so the first option should be fine.




Regards
Joffm

it seems precisely what I need! I still don't know how to modify the pages and add js, but that should be easy to find online.

Thanks!

In the manual it's explained step by step.
And it's really sufficient to add this script in the question text:

and optionally a little bit of styling.
I used:
Regards
Joffm

thanks for the help, I followed step by step, but with no luck. I have my template, added the .js to it, the resources are loaded fine, no errors in the console, but nothing happens.

I have also tried to add your code to my question, but nothing happens, no error messages... I think I am missing something here...

one thing that is not clear to me from the manual is where you have to put the CSV file... can you please advise? thanks

Joffm's example does not use a CSV file, it uses a hard-coded array of names.

Here's a shortened version of his script where you don't need to worry about modifying the QID:


And, attached a sample survey:

yes I was referring to the manual in my second post, where there are instructions on how to use a csv file to add possible names... but thanks for your sample survey, it works also in my setting... btw, would that be possible to have more than one selection? it looks like it allows to pick just one name, while I need multiple - and sorry, I didn't specify it at the beginning.

Hello,

I wrote "I suppose there are not too much names, so the first option should be fine."
And in the manual this is the option with fixed array.

1. Plain text input (the easiest, suitable for small lists or arrays).
2. Input from CSV file (a little trickier, requires several files. Suitable for larger lists and arrays).
3. Input from a MySQL database (trickiest, but also the most versatile and secure).

In my array there are about 80 different names.

Okay,
you see that in the script there is a reference to "input[type="text"]"

So it should work with all questions with text fields.
In my screenshot I used an array(text) with two columns.

What do you use?
Multiple short texts?


Best regards
Joffm

I was using a long text and it didn't work, then I switched to short text field and yes, the solution with a csv is working fine now.

I am trying to switch to multiple short text now, since I need to have more than one name selected and it looks like with the short text it's not possible to have more than one.

No, the autocomplete plugin only allows one selection.

If you need several names, I would...

1) Use a multiple-short-text question

2) Add this script which includes a trigger for Expression Manager when the text inputs are changed:
3) Give the question a validation equation like this to ensure that answers are unique:
4) Give the question a validation tip something like this:
Sample survey attached:

It is still possible to type in any other name. I try to figure out how to validate the text input with the csv-list. The question validation tip could be something like this: „This person is not part of the course“

No manual, no free help, 2.7X tested, need 2 questions :
1. One long text question to have the list of answer
2. One hidden single choice question for answers labels (and code)
javascript only solution

Plugin : framagit.org/SondagePro-LimeSurvey-plugin/selectQuestionBy
Plugin dependance : framagit.org/SondagePro-LimeSurvey-plugin/select2package

Denis