Weird Scoring Totals

Hey ​@Dr. Marie Filion hope you had a good weekend.

Wondering if ​@john.desborough might have some advice for you here? 🙏

​@Dr. Marie Filion - please show screenshots of your logic. that will help. 

des

Des,

Thank you for your reply. Here are three screenshots that will hopefully help you with understanding where I have gone wrong. 

Here is my scoring. 

Here is my logic: 

Here is a picture of my questions. Four group questions with sub-questions. 

When I answer the first set of questions and the total should be “7”, it comes out as follows:

When “Bob” answer that should be a total of “21”, here are the resutls:

I create separate assessments and they work fine. Thank you for taking the time to help me. 

Sincerely,

Marie 

​@Dr. Marie Filion - the issue is using the ‘score’ variable: whenever you select an answer (say, nearly every day for 3 pts) you add that number to the variable score. 

so for one example series, if i chose 3,2,2,3,1, 2,3 - 7 questions max score 21 per your scale, my ‘score’ should be 16, based on the answers. 

note that the value of the ‘score’ variable should increase with each question - so after the third answer in the string above, score would have a value of 7. 

note that in the image of your scoring structure, you have set the value of ‘not at all’ to be “score” (the value of the score variable. 

so if i change the sequence of response points above to the following: 3,2,2,Not at all = score = 7,1, 2,3

where the 4th question has the ‘not at all’ response, the value that would be added to the score total is the current value of the score variable (7) - so that would mean that your total would now be 20. 

if someone then chose ‘not at all’ on the 5th question as well, the now-current value of score 14 would be added to score, making the running total 28 after the 5 questions. 

you should always set a value for the result - even if it is 0 points. and that should help your logic run smoothly. 

des

Des,

Thank you for your response. When I try to set the “score” to “0” the system erases it and leaves it blank. Is there a way to change that? 

Sincerely,

Marie