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Rob	Rob posted 7 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 74	Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it is possible to specify a general directory within the <survey> element, something like: <survey TestSurvey> / pages = [1 = ASD] / file = "%Desktop%\Output\Name1" </survey> similarly would work: "scriptpath"\Output\Name1 The goal is to run the experiment on different machines and I do not want to change all path's in all parts of the experiment on every computer by hand. Kind regards, Rob
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Rob	Rob posted 7 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 74	+x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it is possible to specify a general directory within the <survey> element, something like: <survey TestSurvey> / pages = [1 = ASD] / file = "%Desktop%\Output\Name1" </survey> similarly would work: "scriptpath"\Output\Name1 The goal is to run the experiment on different machines and I do not want to change all path's in all parts of the experiment on every computer by hand. Kind regards, Rob E: Heading must be: /file directory in survey Element (<> wont work there)
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Dave	Dave posted 7 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 12K, Visits: 98K	+x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 +x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it is possible to specify a general directory within the <survey> element, something like: <survey TestSurvey> / pages = [1 = ASD] / file = "%Desktop%\Output\Name1" </survey> similarly would work: "scriptpath"\Output\Name1 The goal is to run the experiment on different machines and I do not want to change all path's in all parts of the experiment on every computer by hand. Kind regards, Rob E: Heading must be: /file directory in survey Element (<> wont work there) Could you elaborate a little more on the specific setup, i.e. where you plan to store the respective script and run it from, and what the desired outcome is re. the data file save locations, i.e. (sub-)folder structure and the like? In a nutshell, I don't think there's a totally straightforward way to achieve what you want, but there might be some kind of alternative solution to get there depending on the above. Thanks!
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Rob	Rob posted 7 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 6, Visits: 74	+x Dave - Monday, October 16, 2017 +x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 +x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it is possible to specify a general directory within the <survey> element, something like: <survey TestSurvey> / pages = [1 = ASD] / file = "%Desktop%\Output\Name1" </survey> similarly would work: "scriptpath"\Output\Name1 The goal is to run the experiment on different machines and I do not want to change all path's in all parts of the experiment on every computer by hand. Kind regards, Rob E: Heading must be: /file directory in survey Element (<> wont work there) Could you elaborate a little more on the specific setup, i.e. where you plan to store the respective script and run it from, and what the desired outcome is re. the data file save locations, i.e. (sub-)folder structure and the like? In a nutshell, I don't think there's a totally straightforward way to achieve what you want, but there might be some kind of alternative solution to get there depending on the above. Thanks! Hi Dave, thanks for your response. To be honest I am not really sure what the folder structure will be like, I dont have the computers yet that will be used for the survey. We will get 10 (windows) laptops with inquisit installled on. We will have a folder for the survey probably on the desktop since the computer is not used for anything else. We have >20 parts that are started through a batch file. So by default the >20 outputs will be saved in the same folder as the parts of the survey. Since we have to delete the output after backup (data protection) I would like to have it in a different folder (say 'Output' folder within the survey parts containing folder) so we do not delete the survey parts by accident. Now I dont know what user names the computers will get but they will probably differ so that I can not specify a similar /file "path" on all machines. I hope this wall of text made it more clear. Thanks for helping, regards, Rob
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Dave	Dave posted 7 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 12K, Visits: 98K	+x Rob - Tuesday, October 17, 2017 +x Dave - Monday, October 16, 2017 +x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 +x Rob - Monday, October 16, 2017 Hello everyone, I'm wondering if it is possible to specify a general directory within the <survey> element, something like: <survey TestSurvey> / pages = [1 = ASD] / file = "%Desktop%\Output\Name1" </survey> similarly would work: "scriptpath"\Output\Name1 The goal is to run the experiment on different machines and I do not want to change all path's in all parts of the experiment on every computer by hand. Kind regards, Rob E: Heading must be: /file directory in survey Element (<> wont work there) Could you elaborate a little more on the specific setup, i.e. where you plan to store the respective script and run it from, and what the desired outcome is re. the data file save locations, i.e. (sub-)folder structure and the like? In a nutshell, I don't think there's a totally straightforward way to achieve what you want, but there might be some kind of alternative solution to get there depending on the above. Thanks! Hi Dave, thanks for your response. To be honest I am not really sure what the folder structure will be like, I dont have the computers yet that will be used for the survey. We will get 10 (windows) laptops with inquisit installled on. We will have a folder for the survey probably on the desktop since the computer is not used for anything else. We have >20 parts that are started through a batch file. So by default the >20 outputs will be saved in the same folder as the parts of the survey. Since we have to delete the output after backup (data protection) I would like to have it in a different folder (say 'Output' folder within the survey parts containing folder) so we do not delete the survey parts by accident. Now I dont know what user names the computers will get but they will probably differ so that I can not specify a similar /file "path" on all machines. I hope this wall of text made it more clear. Thanks for helping, regards, Rob Thanks for the explanation re. the anticipated setup and the reasoning behind it -- very helpful. Let me ponder that for a while and see if I can come up with a viable solution.
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