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1 year 7 months ago - 1 year 7 months ago #254923 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic Help materials for Version 6
So, what design do you achieve now?

As far as I understand, you
  • select randomly and also display randomly 11 out of your 33 "names" groups (each containing three questions)
  • select randomly and also display randomly x out of your y "behaviour" groups (each containing three questions)
  • select randomly something of your "graph" groups (6 positive vs. 6 negative  or 6 graphs randomly positive or negative?)
Well, this way you can't randomize the groups "names", behaviour", "graph".
If you really think it to be necessary, you may create 7 surveys
6 surveys that display these three "groups of groups" in one of the 6 possible orders.
1 survey that only creates a random number  from 1 to 6 and in the end-url links to the matching survey.

As usual:
If there are still questions, show what you did by lss export.

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1 year 6 months ago #255410 by Danił_Fockin
LimeSurvey Cloud version: 6.4.4
Survey theme/template: fruity twentyThree
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Hey, Joffm,
I've read your discussion and tried to understand the basics of randomisation.
You gave me an advice in another topic (about the mismatch). I followed the suggestion of tpartner and removed group randomization. And once I did that, the survey ran correctly.
However, the randomization and the conditioning of question. You proposed not to use randomization function built-in Lime Survey and write a code.
So, I am not familiar with Java Script. I ran the survey you've wrote for AideenW and found that I have the same type of question he had: Q1 (Tamms) -> Q2 (TammsReminder) + Q3 (TammsJa). 
I linked the necessary question to the target ones but they appear only occasionally. Despite the logic is ok as well as syntax, the survey doesn't work correctly. Is it the problem of condition? Do I have to write a condition manually to make cascade questions emerge?

I saw you stated the "relevance" to the questions. Do I have to apply this option to every linked question within the group?

Thank you for advance!
 

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1 year 6 months ago #255456 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic Help materials for Version 6
Hi,
where did I propose not to use randomization function built-in?

Well, 
if you want to keep these three questions together, but display these "groups" in tandom order,
you have to put them into several gropups and add a "randomization group name" on group level.

Best you create a small example where you can test and study what "randomization group name" means.

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1 year 6 months ago #255484 by Danił_Fockin
Yes, you're right you haven't wrote that. I misunderstood.

I reread the topic. Aideen had similar problem and the creation of additional groups seems to be the only solution.
But it will be too much groups because of the number of stimuli.

Is there no any other (more optimal) solution?

Because wthout randomization the survey works well and I supposed that conditioning (if "yes" - show the question) ties the one question to another. In some question it even works...

Thank you for your time and pieces of advices in advance.

Danił.

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1 year 6 months ago #255746 by AideenW
Hi Guys,

It's been a while- but I've been busy! My survey now works perfectly (you are right in your description of my design, @Joffm).

I hope this will be the last question that I have (As I am nearly ready to publish it). I have a consent form at the very beginning, and it's very important that people who do not consent (i.e., select 'no') not be shown any more of the study, barring the final debriefing message that thanks participants for their time. How would I set this up?

Kindly,

Aideen

P.S., I'm a girl :)

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1 year 6 months ago #255747 by AideenW
Also- is there a way to test how the survey will appear on smaller screen (i.e. phones, tablets) before I publish it??

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1 year 6 months ago #255749 by holch
Replied by holch on topic Help materials for Version 6

Also- is there a way to test how the survey will appear on smaller screen (i.e. phones, tablets) before I publish it??


Activate it, take the link, test it, deactivate it again if necessary.

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1 year 6 months ago #255750 by AideenW
Oh- can you still remove/add/alter question types if you deactivate it?

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1 year 6 months ago #255752 by holch
Replied by holch on topic Help materials for Version 6
If you deactivate it after activating, the responses are getting archived and you can edit the survey just like before you activated it. Once you have edited you can activate it again. You can do this as often as you want. Just remember that when you deactivate the table with the responses gets archived (not an issue when you just test, but when you need to do this after already receiving real responses). But this is also no big deal. If you have to deactivate a survey that is already in field, I would always first export the responses, just to have them as CSV or XLS so you don't lose them if something should unexpectedly go wrong. Once you reactivate, Limesurvey will offer you the option to "rescue" the archived responses and in most cases this works well.

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1 year 6 months ago #255754 by Joffm
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To answer this

it's very important that people who do not consent (i.e., select 'no') not be shown any more of the study, barring the final debriefing message that thanks participants for their time. How would I set this up?

Use a quota with limit 0.
Meaning 0 persons who answer "no" are allowed to proceed.
And there you enter a message for them.

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1 year 6 months ago #255783 by AideenW
Thank you.

I have a question about the 'code' names for array questions. I have several array questions within my survey that are structured identically, but ask about a different stimuli each time. That is, they need to have their own designated column within the data spread sheet when I export the results. Is it necessary to provide an individualized answer code for each and every array answer option, across all repetitions of the arrays? My question codes are already individualized but I'm just worried that all the data will be amalgamated together when I down load the results....

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1 year 6 months ago - 1 year 6 months ago #255784 by tpartner
Question and sub-question codes must be unique as they define data column names. Answer codes don't need to be unique as they are the data content.

Always test your survey, downloading the data to ensure that you are getting what you expected.

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1 year 6 months ago #255785 by AideenW
sI'm struggling a little; is there a quota option for individual questions? I can only find a 'survey quota' option..

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1 year 6 months ago #255786 by Joffm
Replied by Joffm on topic Help materials for Version 6

 and sub-question codes must be unique

To clarify: subquestion codes must be unique within one qiestion.
No problem to code
Question Q1 with "SQ001", "SQ002",... and
Question Q1 with "SQ001", "SQ002",...

The database columns will be "Q1_SQ001", "Q1_SQ002",..., "Q2_SQ001"

But as @tpartner.
Such things you have to try

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1 year 6 months ago #255787 by AideenW
Thank you! I will test everything once I figure out the quota issue...

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