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slider response in summary data

bmatt — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:41:09 GMT

I'm having trouble getting responses to slider items showing up in summary data. I have created separate sliders for specific items (each on their own survey page), like so...

<survey item_ratings>
/ pages = [1 = rate_item1]
</survey>

<surveypage rate_item1>
/ caption = "Please rate how positive or negative the following items are:"
/ questions = [1=item1]
/ finishlabel = "Next"
</surveypage>

<slider item1>
/ caption = "Item 1"
/ labels = ("very negative", "very positive")
/ range = (0, 60)
/ increment = 1
/ showticks = false
/ showtooltips = false
/ required = true
</slider>

Then, in summary data, I request responses to this item, like so...

<summarydata>
/ columns = [slider.item1.response]
</summarydata>

I am running the Monkey to ensure my summarydata is recording properly. I am getting values for all of my other columns, such as likert responses, but the slider.item1.response column remains blank. Any sense on what I'm doing wrong here?

RE: slider response in summary data

bmatt — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:41:09 GMT

Ah, okay, thanks!

RE: slider response in summary data

Dave — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:24:28 GMT

You're not doing anything wrong. Most likely your Inquisit installation is outdated -- <summarydata> could not be used together with <survey> elements initially. Make sure you download & install the latest version (4.0.8.0) and it should work just fine.

EDIT: I missed the fact that you are specifically using the monkey, not testing manually. I can reproduce the monkey-case (it does not provide a slider-response -- neither in the summary nor in the raw data file). It works fine when you run the script manually, though. This only happens when /required is set to 'true' in the <slider>. To generate test data, you can temporarily set it to false and do something along the lines of:

<slider item1>
/ caption = "Item 1"
/ labels = ("very negative", "very positive")
/ range = (0, 60)
/ increment = 1
/ showticks = false
/ showtooltips = false
/ required = false
/ monkeyresponse = [round(rand(0,60));]
</slider>