Hi, all,
in single questions "Q1.question" displays the question text.
in multiple questions I am only able to get the text of subquestions "Q1_SQ001.question" while "Q1.question" gives an error of "undefined".

Is there a way to get the question text?

I would like to display it in the result report and not have to enter it manually each time.

Thanks

Joffm

Hi Joffm. There has been some discussion about this but, as far as I know, it is still not available in Expression Manager.

Unfortunately, somehow the question text is not accessible for questions with subquestions. I don't understand why, but it is what it is. I think I have even created a bug report or feature request at one point. But I don't think that this every moved forward. Seems like no one wants to touch Expression Manager...

holch wrote: Seems like no one wants to touch Expression Manager...

Seems to be this "feature" request:
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=8858

.question in IF broken.
bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=14486

Looks like more lipstick on a pig (e.g. WYSIWYG Mode) first.
As long as I see tweets stating that LimeSurvey is as powerful as Qualtrics, the strategy seems to be right.

Yes, it is what it is.

And it is not a big concern. But I just wanted to ask, in case I missed something somewhere.

Joffm

yeah, I was as suprised as you were when I noticed this the first time. Wasn't a big deal for me at the time as well, but I can see how it can be a lot of extra work in some specific cases.

holch wrote: …
I don't understand why, but it is what it is.
…

Expression Manager use variables and fixed string.

Variables are the answer of question : the part filling the database. Single quuestion : Q1 is the variable, multiple question Q1_SQ1 is the variable : see www.limesurvey.org/manual/Expression_Man...code_Variable_Naming

Fixed string are TEMPLATEURL, SID, TOKEN:XXXX etc …

When know this : the question is why we have Q1.question ? It's more a hack, and helper than something logic


Q1 in a multiple question didn't get in variable .

You can think it's easy to have Q1.question : the question of Q1 BUt : what for Q1.NAOK ? Q1.value ? Etc …

It's the reason.

I don't think we would need anything else than "Q1.question" and it is the only thing that makes sense.

holch wrote: I don't think we would need anything else than "Q1.question" and it is the only thing that makes sense.

Yes : but then Expression manager muts be totally rewritten from scratch …

I think about a way to update knowVars by plugins to fix this issue (adding a plugin in core) : adding Q1.question for multiple choice and adding Q1.help for all question

But i'm unsure of the best way …

1. Easy way : allow adding only «fixed» string like today (the most easy)
Then : QUESTION_Q1,QUESTION_Q1_SQ1 etc … but what happen if there are QUESTION in survey
2. Allow update variable part : then have Q1.question and Q1.help : think it's great but can broke a lot of things …
3. Only allow new fixed variable without _ (only alphabetic) : easiest but … lack of feature
4. Only allow new fixed var + create own part QUESTION:Q1, QUESTION:Q1_SQ01 (like token) : think it's the cleaner but did we have all feature needed ?

Discussion here : www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/118...te-by-plugins#182458

Yes : but then Expression Manager muts be totally rewritten from scratch …

I know. But I also know that everyone is scared of that. So it will most probably never happen.

I met the same issue.
Is there still no workaround?

No workaround,

In project (by core plugins) in 4.0 : github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/pull/1256