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Remove commas from blank selection

Sammi_Leroy1430

Hi everyone,
I am trying to pipe in responses from a matrix question into the question text of the following question. For example, I have a list of topics to rate from 0-10. I would like to pipe the response in the next question "you noted some dissatisfaction with [answer <7 here]. See below the matrix. When I pipe in ${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/1}, ${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2} etc... I see this in the second picture.
image.pngDo you know how to remove those extra commas at the end? this would be if a rating is greater than 7.
image.png

7 replies

rondev
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If you can break the block between these two question, then using branch logic you can check if count of scale point 0 selection is greater than or equal to 1 then update an embedded data(SelOption) with the selected choice Answer 1 text along with that embedded data comma separated as show below: Similarly do this for all scale points up to 7.
image.pngOR
Using JS: In the question text HTML insert this :

you noted some dissatisfaction with

 
Now in the JS(onReady function) of question Q34, check:
var s ="";
if("${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/1}"!=""){
s = s+", "+"${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/1}";
}
if("${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2}"!=""){
s = s+", "+"${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2}";
}
Similarly do the above if for all scale points and at the end set s as text of span class selOption
jQuery(".selOption").text(s);

Ron Dev (DM for any request. Freelancer, surveysolution.in)
Sammi_Leroy1430

Thank you! I went with the JS solution.
I now have a block of text though. It would be much easier to read with line breaks. Or even a bullet in front of each line. Do you know how to include a line break in the list?
Here's what I've tried so far, just on the line break:
Replacing the ", " with: "
", "
, "\\n", "\\r", "\\r\\n"
ex: }
if("${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2}"!=""){
    s = s+"\\r\\n"+"${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2}";
}
Or is this an issue with the function in the question text?

rondev
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Userlevel 7
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If you do not have any "," in your statements, then after all the ifs statement, just put below code:
s = s.replace(/,/g,"
")
jQuery(".selOption").text(s);

Ron Dev (DM for any request. Freelancer, surveysolution.in)
Sammi_Leroy1430

Thank you. I've added that code, just below the If statements . Here's what I'm getting now when I test the quesiton:
image.pngThe line breaks are not being read correctly. Do you have any ideas on how to address this?

Sammi_Leroy1430

Here's the code now, it case that's helpful.

});
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnReady(function()
{
var s ="";
if("${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/1}"!=""){
    s = s+", "+"${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/1}";
}
if("${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2}"!=""){
    s = s+", "+"${q://QID40/ChoiceGroup/SelectedChoicesForAnswer/2}";
}
s = s.replace(/,/g,"
") 
jQuery(".selOption").text(s);
});


rondev
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Userlevel 7
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Sorry, change the last line to:
jQuery(".selOption").html(s);

Ron Dev (DM for any request. Freelancer, surveysolution.in)
Sammi_Leroy1430

Thanks again. In case anyone else finds this thread useful, I needed to add a / to the second

in the html script:

you noted some dissatisfaction with

 

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