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That's fantastic Dave, thanks a lot!

That's not something you do in the script. Instead you specify the URL you want to redirect to in your web experiment's settings:

Hi Dave,

Sorry to bother you with one more question (and if you would prefer me to start a new topic I'll happily do so), but I wish to host my study via Prolific Academic, which requires a link back to the latter's website at the end of the study; thus, how do I add a hyperlink? I have searched, and attempted:

<item prolink>
/1 = "*hyperlink goes here*"
</item>
 
<trial link>
/stimulustimes = [1 = prolink]
/timeout = 1000000
</trial>

<block link>
/trials = [1 = noreplace(link)]
</block>

Alas, this does not work (as you might have guessed).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,
Josh

Wonderful, thanks for clearing that up Dave - everything's working and data recording is correct. I'm ready to publish the study online now - thanks again!

Josh

This place is for asking question -- it's not pestering at all.

As to your question:
#1: Keypress responses in *<trial>* elements are recorded as *keyboard scancodes* (not the same as ASCII codes). There is no way to change that.
#2: Your last question involved an *<openended>* element, however. The response column will reflect whatever the participant typed. This will *not* be translated to keyboard scancodes or ASCII codes. I.e., if a participant responds "banana", that's exactly what the response column will have in it.

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your response. I've been trying to source a method, as I don't want to keep pestering you with questions, but I'm having trouble logging the response column to the data file to capture responses. Ideally I would like to record their response/data as a string, and from my inquisition I believe the 'response' data column only records ASCII codes.

Many thanks again,
Josh

As for your copy & paste question: Copied from where and when? Generally, though, the answer is no. You cannot CTRL+C, for example, an item displayed by a <text> element in a script.

You don't need /validresponse or /correctresponse. You need to run your <openended> element via some <block> at the appropriate point in time. You need to log the response column to the data file to capture responses. Alternatively, use a <values> entry as you already do in other places and log that value to the data file.

Sorry - I forgot to mention in the last post also - is there a way for participants to have copied text via ctrl+C and be able to paste it into the text box, also?

Thanks again, apologies for the double posting,

Josh

Hi Dave,

Thanks. I understand that, where the correct number was incorrectly appearing, it was actually recording it for the trial beforehand but incorrectly placing it in the next data row. I switch all the trials to recorddata = false, and switched surverypage.te = true, and it records properly now.

Thanks for your help!

One other quick thing that I've spent the last 2 hours trying to work out, is how to record openended responses? They need to enter in their specific ID, so, as predicted, /correctresponse or valid/repsonse does not work.

I have this so far:
<openended paID>
/position = (50, 50)
/buttonlabel = "Click here to advance"
/linelength = 50
/charlimit = 30
/numlines = 1
/size = (500, 50)
/recorddata = true
</openended>

What would I need to enter, either here or in the data section, for it to record? 

Many thanks,
Josh