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Help with branching logic

  • December 10, 2024
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I would like to create a survey that branches as follows:

The survey contains a multi-question section that asks respondents to fill in short text answers in five seperate text fields. Let’s call the text fields: 2a*, 2b, 2c, 2d and 2e. (Only 2a is required)

The next couple of questions asks respondents to judge their own answers to the previous set of questions. Let’s call those questions 3a*, 3b, 3c, 3d and 3e. (Only 3a is required). 3a calls back what the respondent wrote in answer to 2a, and vice versa.

This is where it gets complicated for me: 

Respondents are not all likely to write something in all five text fields (2a->2e) . So in many cases, some of those text fields will be left empty, and I’d not like to subsequently recall empty information and ask respondents to judge that.

What I would like is the following:

  • I’d like question 3b to show only if the respondent entered tekst in 2b. Otherwise the survey should skip to question 4.
  • Subsequently, I’d only like question 3c to show if the respondent entered tekst in 2c. Otherwise the survey should skip to question 4.
  • Subsequently I’d only like question 3d to show if the respondent entered tekst in 2d. Otherwise the survey should skip to question 4.
  • And finally, I’d only like question 3e to show if the respondent entered tekst in 2e. Otherwise the survey should skip to question 4.

I hope I succeeded in making this somewhat clear? If a respondent enters tekst in 2a to 2e, that person will also see questions 3a to 3e in that sequence.

I’ll be grateful for any help to solve this issue.

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Liz
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  • December 11, 2024

Tagging ​@john.desborough in case he has any advice for you! If you have any of this already setup but it’s not working, please send over the screenshots of that as well!


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  • December 12, 2024

Hi Liz,

I tried setting it up, but gave up and came here :-)


Liz
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  • December 19, 2024

Totally understand! If you have any screenshots you can send us so we know where you’re at with setting this up, that would be handy, ​@MartinB !


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