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12 years 1 month ago #74468 by gwiesner
Hi All,

Just wondering if it is possible pipe the 'Other' category from a multiple choice into an array using the arry filter. Ideally I would like to pipe the specified text, but even the broad category of 'Other' would suffice.

I am using LimeService.

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12 years 1 month ago #74474 by Mazi
To my knowledge that was something that wasn't implemented at the 1.91 branch yet.

Limesurvey 1.92 (RC4 was just released) uses the Expression Manager for this and I saw a working example at the forums which showed how to pipe the "other" text.

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12 years 1 month ago #75173 by amoeba
Hi,

I also tried to do this, but I cannot find the solution. Pls Help.

Thanks in advance.
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12 years 1 month ago #75186 by TMSWhite
There is a working example on the 1.92 demo site here .

You can login as admin and show its logic file to see how the piping works.
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12 years 1 month ago #75187 by gwiesner
Looks great. Are there plans to upgrade LimeService (v1.91+) to 1.92 in the near future?
Cheers.
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12 years 1 month ago #75190 by amoeba
Thanks a lot! It solved my problem.

Experimenting with javascript and the jsName attribute I have got "<span id='LEMtailor_Q_21_30'>java87887X14X211</span>" instead of 'java87887X14X211'. Should I report it in bugtracker or I made a mistake?
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12 years 1 month ago #75219 by Mazi

gwiesner wrote: Looks great. Are there plans to upgrade LimeService (v1.91+) to 1.92 in the near future?
Cheers.

Limesurvey version 1.92 will be available at LimeService once it is fully tested and runs stable. This might take some more weeks.

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12 years 1 month ago #75287 by TMSWhite

amoeba wrote: Thanks a lot! It solved my problem.

Experimenting with javascript and the jsName attribute I have got "<span id='LEMtailor_Q_21_30'>java87887X14X211</span>" instead of 'java87887X14X211'. Should I report it in bugtracker or I made a mistake?
Cheers


No, that isn't a bug. That code is how EM supports dynamic substitution on the same page. Perhaps you were testing the demo listed below, selected the Other option, and saw the message asking why you liked {Q1_other} best. The reason it didn't show the fully substituted value is that EM would have had to do recursive substitution within a page, which it can't do. However, if does do recursive substitution between pages, so if you want to use the Other value on a different page, you will see the entered value for Other was you would expect.
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11 years 7 months ago #84224 by gwiesner
Just upgraded to 1.92 and trying to solve this piping problem. I now have the issue that 'Other-specify' is always piped to subsequent array question and it doesn' seem to be a "checkable/selectable" item in the multi-choice question.

I am but a simple man. To me Java is an island in Indonesia..... Therfore if anyone can help me pipe the 'Other-specify' text into the following question (when it is selected!) I would be most appreciative. I have attached a screen capture of the relevant questions.

Many thanks.
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11 years 7 months ago #84238 by tpartner
You can use an answer code "other" for the question 2 "Other" option and an expression to pipe in the value as in the illustration below (where my Q1 code is multiOpt_p1_1). This will make both the filter and the piping work.


So the result is:


Here's a working example:

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11 years 7 months ago #84240 by TMSWhite
Personally, I'd vote to going back to the way 1.91+ worked. I have plenty of surveys where users want to check the other check-box, but do not be forced to specify any details. The changed implementation does not allow that.

The that caused the current behavior was made by Denis about a month ago.
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11 years 7 months ago #84244 by tpartner
Yeah, or maybe have an option "Hide Other checkbox".

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