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Both (unless I'm terribly mistaken). But you should be able to test that for yourself without much effort. A minimal test case would be

<block myblock>
/ trials = [1=pg1; 2=pg2]
</block>

<surveypage pg1>
/ questions = [1=q1]
</surveypage>

<surveypage pg2>
/ questions = [1=q1]
</surveypage>

<radiobuttons q1>
/ caption = "You should not  be able to move on without answering me. However, if you reuse me on multiple pages, that won't work."
/ options = ("A","B")
/ required = true
</radiobuttons>

If you can submit the 2nd page without providing a response to q1 (which is what actually happens), you have your answer. You can't reuse questions on multiple pages if you need to rely on /required=true, unfortunately.

So just to clarify, is it only the radiobuttons that need to be unique for each question, only the survey pages that have to be unique, or both?  We have questions that vary in terms of the number of responses that are displayed for each question so we branch from an initial surveypage to a second surveypage that includes the radiobutton with the appropriate number of responses (and the formatting):

<surveypage test_trials_part1>

/ questions = [1 = caption_macro]

   / stimulustimes = [1= within_block_progress_report, item_index_report, block_report, caption_report, buttons_report]

   / branch =    [if (values.radiobuttonsneeded == 1) surveypage.test_trials_part2a]

   / branch =    [if (values.radiobuttonsneeded == 2) surveypage.test_trials_part2b]

...

</surveypage>

<surveypage test_trials_part2b>

   / questions = [1 = radiobutton_1b; 2 = prompts]

   / stimulustimes = [1=picture_macrovar]

</surveypage>

<radiobuttons radiobutton_1b>

   / caption = "Acceptable Responses       "

   / options = ("WRONG" , 

               "<% getitem(counter.option1,values.item_index) %>" , 

               "<% getitem(counter.option2, values.item_index) %>") 

   / other = "Other"

/ required =  true

   </radiobuttons>

The reason I ask is that we have 400-600 items that we are creating (then administering a subset to each participant), and if both are required uniquely, then that means we've just expanded our 2 surveypage and 5 radiobutton elements to 400-600 of each.  Yikes!

Thanks,

Jeff

Thank you for answering so fast.

Ok, I'll use the 50 radiobuttons and wait for an official relase of Inquisit 4:)

Unfortunately there isn't. All you can do is set up 50 *different* <radiobuttons>, etc. elements, so that every element is only run once across the whole script.