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Prefilling Radio button answers at runtime 2 years 1 month ago #59422

danpaul000
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Hi all,

I am trying to prefill a number of radio button questions at runtime based on answers to previous questions. I am able to work out the logic as to which radio buttons should be selected, but am stuck on the syntax as to how to set a button as selected.

I have seen the other posts to pre-fill numerical input/free text responses, and have been using

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var prev_ans = '{INSERTANS:1X1X1}';
document.getElementById("answer1X2X2").value = prev_ans;
});
</script>

to prefill open response. Is the syntax for prefilling radio questions similar? I am using Limesurvey 1.90. Thanks!

Dan

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Re: Prefilling Radio button answers at runtime 2 years 1 month ago #59426

tpartner OFFLINE LimeSurvey Team Posts: 2864 Thank you received: 424 Karma: 245	Not quite. Using a couple of jQuery shortcuts: <script> $(document).ready(function() { var prev_ans = '{INSERTANS:1X1X1}'; if(prev_ans == 1) { $('#answer1X2X11').attr('checked', true); } else { $('#answer1X2X12').attr('checked', true); } }); </script>
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Re: Prefilling Radio button answers at runtime 2 years 1 month ago #59428

danpaul000
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Hi Tony,

Thanks for the tip, I was able to assign the radio buttons. However, I'm now having some difficulty with the conditional. I have a multiple options question on the previous page and want to pre-set radio buttons on the current page corresponding to the checks from the page before. As in, if checkbox 1 is checked on the first page, then radio question 1 will be set to response 1. If checkbox 1 is NOT checked, then radio question 1 will be set to response 2. Etc for checkbox 2 and radio question 2, and checkbox 3 and radio question 3. Below is the code I am trying to use to select one radio button or the other if the first checkbox is checked or not, however the IF statement is not evaluating to true. Thoughts?

3.

<script>    
  $(document).ready(function() {
 
var CB1 = '#answer1X1XCB1';
var RB1 = '#answer1X2XRB1';
var RB2 = '#answer1X2XRB2';
 
if($(CB1).attr('checked') == true) 
{
	$(RB1).attr('checked', true);
}
else
{
	$(RB2).attr('checked', true);
}
      });
</script>

Last Edit: 2 years 1 month ago by danpaul000.

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Re: Prefilling Radio button answers at runtime 2 years 1 month ago #59431

tpartner
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Each sub-question of a multiple options (checkbox) question needs to be accessed separately using {INSERTANS} with the sub-question code. If checked, the {INSERTANS} tag returns the sub-question value, otherwise it will return "No answer".

So, given the following multiple options question:

If "Red" were selected, {INSERTANS:96687X70X7741} would return "RED".

So to continue your example, if I had a radio question on a subsequent page with the following IDs:

The code may be:

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
 
	$(document).ready(function() {
 
		var checkBox1 = '{INSERTANS:96687X70X7741}';
 
		if(checkBox1 == 'Red') {
			$('#answer96687X71X7801').attr('checked', true);
		}
		else {
			$('#answer96687X71X7802').attr('checked', true);
		}
	});
 
</script>

Cheers,
Tony

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