Sounds good!

Walter, if you succeed please post your solution here because it might be very useful for other users.

Hey guys,

I'm sorry to disappoint you but I went with the easy way. I could have done something with ITEd's suggestion (great one), but the invitations needed to be sent quickly so I decided 'no'. I simply created two identical (different names) surveys, uploaded the two letters and put a link the invitation e-mail (letter1 for the first group, letter2 for the second). Another solution would be to put the link to the document in the survey description as that gets displayed on the first page of the survey (right?). Thanks for the help guys!

Kind regards,

Walter

Glad you found a way that works - simple is often best.

I just wanted to report that I did a quick and dirty, successful test of the suggestion to use javascript to perform certain actions according to the value of a token field: Token field data IS accessible to scripts in question text via the replaceable field names in the form of {TOKEN:ATTRIBUTE_1}.

So one can evaluate token field data in scripts. Just not in anonymous surveys because then the token is isolated to preserve anonymity.

Regards.

Thanks for your feedback!

Maybe you can add your helpful advice to the workaround section in the manual?!

Mazi, my Javascript isn't really up to a good demonstration to solve this very particular and unusual need. It would be more useful IMHO to elaborate the principle in the tokens section of the manual a little, eg.


If your survey is NOT anonymous, the following field names are available to insert token data in survey text and Javascript:
[table of fieldnames here]

For example, if Attribute 1 contains either 'worker' or 'boss', one could personalise a question:
Hello {TOKEN:FIRSTNAME}, what do you as a {TOKEN:ATTRIBUTE_1} think about your [script]if {TOKEN:ATTRIBUTE_1}='worker' then write 'bosses' else write 'workers'[/script]?

In an anonymous survey these field names are not available because the tokens table is dissociated from the survey. (Changes in bold.)

If this is a useful explanation how one might use these fieldnames, then people can come up with all sorts of creative ways to exploit them. What do you think? Feel free to improve ...

Regards.

Sounds great. You are absolutely right: we need some more documentation on tokens and what can be done by using placeholders. Your instructions are great, can you add this to the wiki?!

By chance I found that some explanation was in the Adding a Question section of the manual. On the Tokens page I added a mention of script use and a link to examples in the Adding A Question page (but couldn't figure out how to link to the proper page section), where I added a rough scripting example.