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Can't remember which tools, sorry. Has been a while.

But I also had a lot of requests from clients that wanted the multipunch quesitons in this format, in one column, seperated by comma. So this must be a thing.

holch wrote:

I never liked the approach of saving various codes into one column. Quite a few survey tools store multipunch questions like this as well,

Interesting, what tools do that?

holch wrote:

Still one column per response option with "Y" if ticked, I guess?

Correct, still one column per subquestion.

Wonder when the database refactoring will allow answer relevance.

I never liked the approach of saving various codes into one column. Quite a few survey tools store multipunch questions like this as well, never understood why, because it is quite inconvenient for simple analysis in Excel for example.

However, I understand the reasoning behind it, as this can save a lot of database columns.

I assume this approach has not been chosen for multipunch questions in Limesurvey 7, I guess? Still one column per response option with "Y" if ticked, I guess?

I really need to find some time to install LS7.

Hi,
so during the fieldwork you realized that you need numerical codes to be able to do some statistical tests.
Means: You did not do a full test. 
And you changed the old "AO01" or whatever to "1", "2",...
How did you do this?
You deactivated the survey, changed the codes and activated again? Then imported the "old_answers"?
Here is the crucial point. LimeSurvey has to rely on the codes to merge the answers.
Anyway: There should still be a data table with the original answers.
Maybe your admin can help investigating the "lime_old_survey_223575_xxxx"

Always remember: In single punch questions like arrays this code is stored as the respondent's answer. If you change this code in the survey structure, you expect LimeSurvey to go through all responses in the answer table to change from old code too new code.

If you export to SPSS anyway, this is done better in SPSS. A simple RECODE and a switch of the scale (from "text" to "ordinal").
This statements you may add directly to the syntax file. Done.

Well, you decided to do it the hard way. And you were more or less successful.

But now your question about conditional text questions.
I could reproduce that nothing is stored.
Have a look at your equation "gleichung"
 
You see the new line and the <p> tags.

This means you do not store "1" or "2", but "1   " or "2   ", each number followed by three blanks.
Now the conditions gleichung==1 resp. gleichung==2 will fail, because "gleichung" contains neither "1" nor "2".
A correct condition would have been gleichung=="1   "

Unfortunately LimeSurvey behaves weird.
The question were displayed (the programming language neglects the type error), but the storage does not.

But anyway: Gone is gone.
Du weißt es ja: "Backup ist nur für Feiglinge"
Warum nur hast Du nicht vor den Änderungen einmal exportiert?

Joffm