My survey contains 14 question groups.
At the end of the survey I display a result per question group in percentage.
For that purpose I have defined an equation type question (always hidden) summing up the assessment values of the answers.
e.g. DD1CALC for the question group DD1
So far so good... the percentage shows on the end page of the survey.

Now I would like to give the respondent some information at the end of the question group depending on the percentage achieved.
I therefore created an equation type question (not hidden) containing the following IF statement:
{if(DD1CALC<40,'You score less than 40% for these questions. You have still some work to do',if(DD1CALC>80,'You score more than 80% for these questions. You are well on the way !','You score average on these questions. I suggest you discuss your answers with your therapist'))}

This does not work. It appears as if EM can not evaluate the value behind my DD1CALC variable.
It does work if I copy the full calculation previously used in the definition of DD1CALC, but that means an incredible amount of work as my survey contains 128 questions in 14 different question groups.

Thanks a ton for any help.

Is DD1CALC placed before your group-statement equation type question?

Hi Tony.
Thanks for your reply but DD1CALC is placed after the group-statement equation.
Hope you have an idea...
Regards

Well, here we go. If DD1CALC is placed after the question where you want to use it, how can this question use it? It is only calculated in the future...

Sorry. Got that wrong in my answer to you.
DD1CALC is calculated before I try to use it in my comments.
Hope you have an idea anyway.

Can you attach an example here? Of course not the 1.000.000 questions you mentioned, but one set, so we can look at it?

Which version of LS are you using?

Hi Holch,
Thanks for picking up my question.
Attached you find an extract of the survey.
The subject is pretty sensitive (the impact of sexual abuse on children).
I hope you had no such experience in your youth as it may then contain triggers for you.
We are using LS 2.06

in the example, question IFTEST1 works fine, but means an awful lot of work.
Question IFTEST2 is the way I would like to do it, but it doesn't work.

Looking forward to hearing from you again.
Have a great day.

I think the editor is messing with your "<" and ">" operators. Replacing them with "LT" and "GT" respectively and introducing a space before and after the operator seems to work.

Modified survey attached:

Thanks again Tony, but to no avail....
Upon entering the first answer, the question disappears (??!!??) and never shows up again.
To take away some confusion, better to delete IFTEST1 as that one works and you may think that the problem is solved.
Hope you have some more ideas or am I approaching the border of what is possible with LS ?
Cheers, Ton

Hmm...2 problems...

1) I modified "DD1CALC" and that broke the equation. :blush: I have fixed it in the attached.

2) The tfr_responsive template seems to be causing the disappearance. The attached works with the default and citronade templates.

We also saw this behaviour. There is a new version of the template for LimeSurvey 2.06.

Could you be so kind to test this newest version? You can find it at:
www.toolsforresearch.com/limesurvey-responsive-template

greetings from The Netherlands,

Tammo

Seems to work fine Tammo.