Re: Conditional "Must Answer" question

The reason why this doesn't work is because the MUSTANSWER parameter isn't 
a part of the *visible* output. The visible output is what is printed to 
the used in the question part.

There is currently no syntactically clean way to do this.

However, if you take a peek on the "redirection on submit" thread, it is 
conceivable that something similar could be done for the MUSTANSWER
parameter. With a perl snippet you can dynamically change a property of 
a question.

If you want to change the setting of MUSTANSWER on the first question on a 
page, the corresponding perl snippet code would be:

   $document->SetTagParam(1,"MUSTANSWER","no");

(Possibly it should be 0, I don't remember if questions are numbered from 
0 or 1. :-) ).

I hope this helps you. Otherwise, I'll make a more complete example later 
on.

   // Joel


On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, George Clark wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way to conditionally supply the value of "MUSTANSWER=" during
> submit processing?
>
> It seems like a simple situation.  I don't want to go to a multiple page
> survey, but I'd like one or two questions to be optional based upon an earlier
> question on the same page. (I've also tried it by passing the variable from the
> prior page, but that doesn't seem to work either.
>
> I guess the manual "References to variable answers submitted on an earlier page
> can be inserted in all visible output," really means what it says about visible
> output. <g>  Is there any easy way to accomplish this?
>
>  <CHOICE NAME="flying" CAPTION="Are flying or riding along?" MUSTANSWER="yes"
>>
>    <CHOICEELEMENT VALUE="0" CAPTION="Pilot Flying, no empty seats " />
>    <CHOICEELEMENT VALUE="1" CAPTION="Pilot Flying, have seats available" />
>    <CHOICEELEMENT VALUE="2" CAPTION="Passenger - I need a ride" />
>  </CHOICE>
>
>  <TEXT NAME="aircra" MAXLEN="15" CAPTION="Aircraft Type"
> MUSTANSWER={!flying/0:"yes",1:"yes",2:"no"!} />
>  <TEXT NAME="speed" NUMERICAL="yes"
> MUSTANSWER={!flying/0:"yes",1:"yes",2:"no"!} CAPTION="Cruise Speed" />
>  <TEXT NAME="seats" NUMERICAL="yes" MUSTANSWER={!flying/0:"no",1:"yes",2:"no"!}
>
> Thanks,
> George Clark
> Skickat av "George Clark" <[email protected]>
> till survey-discussion
>
Skickat av Joel Palmius <[email protected]>
till survey-discussion