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Hello everyone,
I've four questions in my survey. If the participant selects "Ja" (yes) for a particular item in the 1st question, that item will be displayed in the 3rd and 4th for some follow-up questions (this has worked).

Now, for the 3rd question, I'd like to provide the option to list some additional items that I did not mention in the 2nd question. For this, I used multiple short text (not very practical imo, but I couldn't think of an alternative, maybe there are better ideas?).

Is it possible to use the answers from the 3rd question (if something is added) as additional inputs in the following 4th question (i.e. if something is written in a text field, it should be displayed under the regular elements listed in the last array question)?

I hope this clarifies my concern. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated. 

Add three subquestions to the last question,
pipe in the text of the second question {Q2_SQ001,...}
display them by condition (!is_empty(Q2_SQ001),...
 

I used multiple short text (not very practical imo,

What else do you consider better?
You can improve by the dynamical display.
Read my "Tutorial 2:", Chapter 3.4. in the German part of the forum (on one of the first 7 pages)  

Joffm

Warum muss ich wieder ohne Not auf Englisch antworten?
 

Vielen Dank für die Hilfe!
Wäre es möglich, Ihre Vorlage hochzuladen?

Bezüglich dem "dynamical display": Da werde ich mich mal schlaumachen, klingt interessant. Vielen Dank.

Danke und Gruss

This is the English part. So we have to write English.
But you may use the German part.

And it is the other way.
Follow the steps 
1. Add three subquestions to the last question,
2. pipe in the text of the second question {Q2_SQ001,...}
3. display them by subquestion condition (!is_empty(Q2_SQ001),...

Then  send the lss export of your survey (only these relevant questions)

Joffm

Apologies!

It has now worked flawlessly. Thank you very much! That's very cool.
Should I upload the lss file for future reference anyway, or is that not necessary?

Cheers!

I am very curious how you will do data analysys on these questions.... Since the answers are constantly on various questions..

@tammo

Good point, I hadn't even thought about that.

"Since the answers are constantly on different questions..."

Are you referring to the additional individual response option that each respondent has, or generally these types of questions where it only appears if selected on the first question?

I would appreciate it if you could elaborate on this. I'm fairly new to limesurvey and haven't really analyzed anything with it yet, so I'd appreciate any input.

and haven't really analyzed anything with it yet,

And you shouldn't. 

Limesurvey is primarily a data collection tool. Yes, it has a statistics part, but I don't think anyone should analyze their data via this tool. It is good to get a quick overview during field time, about what answers to expect. But for anything else you should use tools that are made for data analysis.