Instruction Pages

YoungResearcher — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:10:24 GMT

I have a question concerning the instruction pages in your script “Decision Board”.
I want to run the script (like standard) with a decision board for two applicants.
Before the decision board for the first applicant (Applicant1) starts, I want two instruction pages to appear (Userinfo1, Userinfo2). The second applicant (Applicant2) has two other instruction pages (Userinfo3, Userinfo4). The order of the two applicants is random.

I want the script to run like this:

Userinfo1
Userinfo2
Applicant1
Userinfo3
Userinfo4
Applicant2

Or respectively:

Userinfo3
Userinfo4
Applicant2
Userinfo1
Userinfo2
Applicant1

I tried something like this:

<htmlpage userinfo1>
/file = "dba_userinformation1.htm"
</htmlpage>

<htmlpage userinfo2>
/file = "dba_userinformation2.htm"
</htmlpage>

<htmlpage userinfo3>
/file = "dba_userinformation3.htm"
</htmlpage>

<htmlpage userinfo4>
/file = "dba_userinformation4.htm"
</htmlpage>

<list applicantindex>
/items = (1, 2)
/replace = false
/resetinterval = 0
</list>

<trial userinfo>
/ontrialbegin [if (values.applicantindex=1) htmlpage.userinfo1; htmlpage.userinfo2]
/ontrialbegin [if (values.applicantindex=2) htmlpage.userinfo3; htmlpage.userinfo4]
</trial>

<block userinfo>
/trials = [1 = userinfo]
</block>

Is there any mistake? Unfortunately it doesn´t work…

RE: Instruction Pages

Dave — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:10:24 GMT

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[b]YoungResearcher - Tuesday, September 26, 2017[/b]

[/quote]

<htmlpage> elements aren't trials, so you cannot display them via a block's /trials attribute. Nor are <htmlpage> elements stimuli, so you cannot display them via a <trial> either. Beyond that

<trial userinfo>
/ontrialbegin [if (values.applicantindex=1) htmlpage.userinfo1; htmlpage.userinfo2]
/ontrialbegin [if (values.applicantindex=2) htmlpage.userinfo3; htmlpage.userinfo4]
</trial>

is invalid syntax that will not actually do anything (I'm unclear about what it is supposed to achieve or mean to begin with).

<htmlpage>s are instruction pages, the exclusive way to display them is via an <expt>'s or <block>'s /pre- and /postinstructions attributes.

Set up two <block>s, one that displays pages userinfo1 and userinfo2

<block userinfo1and2>
/ preinstructions = (userinfo1, unserinfo2)
</block>

and another one that displays userinfo3 and 4:

<block userinfo3and4>
/ preinstructions = (userinfo3, unserinfo4)
</block>

Then /branch to the applicable block based on your applicantindex variable:

<block userinfo>
...
/ branch = [if (values.applicantindex == 1) block.userinfo1and2]
/ branch = [if (values.applicantindex == 2) block.userinfo3and4]
</block>

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