drbray wrote: . If they answered the last screener question and are screened out of the rest of the survey they are still considered 'complete' by limesurvey.

Your screener question is implemented via quota?


There are enough feature requests. The developers are still not connected to the world of quota. Or the userbase they have in mind don't need anything than the current quota system.

bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=9345
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=11589

"Your screener question is implemented via quota?"

No...is that my problem? I've never actually used 'quotas' because we don't have a set number of completes that we turn off interviewing at.

Oh, then we talked about different things.

You do it like this?
If Q1==2 then all following questions are not shown by relevance. Of course this is a complete interview.

Unless Jelo asked we all thought about the "quota=0" workaround to screen people out. And in this case you don't get a "complete" in the answer table, but in the participants table.

IMO $num_completed_answers is the result of a SQL query somewhere else in the code. But I didn't find it yet.

Joffm

Perhaps I still don't understand your surveyflow.
How do you implement the screenout?

I do that via a quota.
A screenout is normally a special case of a quota. The quota of a screenout is 0.
You have a condition, you don't want. You want to screen out. Might be a bit tricky if questions are not directly available in the rudimentary quotasystem.
If you screenout via a quota, you don't get that counted as a complete.

That might be what i need to do...use quotas for screenouts. I've never used quotas up to this point, so am a little nervous that i will screw it up, but that looks like the direction i should move.

You do it like this?
If Q1==2 then all following questions are not shown by relevance. Of course this is a complete interview.

Yes, that's exactly how i have been handling screenouts.

Here is a VERY small example.

Women are screened out.

Remember: Quota work only in activated surveys.



Best regards
Joffm

I was about to ask how you do screenouts. Your current approach must be a pain for longer surveys.

I would definitely recommend to have a look at the screening with quota. Will not work in every case, but when it works it will be a lot easier/quicker for you.

Thanks, guys...i will definitely try the quotas. Looks like it will make it better and easier once i get the hang of it.

Thanks again!