Creating Custom items

**Aner** · 08-27-2006, 05:07 AM

I've succeeded running multiple radios and obtaining the data from each of the items. However, for the empty custom items in the questionnaire (the ones that stand there as dummies just to capture data on their variable name), medialab seems to force itself to display an html page (despite the fact I did not name a file!) - which leads to an error screen on the browser (no page available). How do I convince medialab to just use the added custom lines for data saving from the previous html file rather than trying to display additional custom items? Thanks!

**jarvis24** · 08-28-2006, 02:44 PM

May be a version issue. The feature that gets MediaLab to skip any custom item without a filename came in v2006.1.28. If you have a version that's prior to that, try installing the latest version from the download page.

**barbaramoon** · 10-11-2006, 01:05 PM

I'm trying to do the multiple questions per screen but i'm not able to do that. How do i do that?
Also, i'm trying to open the Questionnaire file on the zip file posted, and it is empty. Please, i need help with this.
Thank you.

**jarvis24** · 10-24-2006, 03:10 PM

barbara--you need to copy the zipped files to a foplder before you can work with them. If you try to open the .que file while it's still in the zip file, it will appear empty.

**jeg32** · 04-23-2008, 04:15 PM

Hello,

I created several questionnaires using the websites MediaLab recommended. I then tried to run it and even though it shows up fine in the MediaLab application, it will not save any of the data.

I was reading the "Help" section on "Custom Items" but I still do not understand why it will not save. Is it my variable names?

Here is a sample...

Code:

<html>
<body>
<form action="post">
<select name="visit#">
<option value="none"></option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3">3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
</select>
</form>

**jarvis24** · 04-24-2008, 11:56 AM

There are a couple things I see right off but I don't know if they would be the cause of data not being written. First, I would avoid using a character like "#" in your variable name. I would suggest using "visit" rather than "visit#". Also, you use "action = post" but it should be "method = post".

There is a nice demographics sample in the sharing area that shows the proper syntax for a variety of custom question types. See:
http://www.empirisoft.com/support/showthread.php?t=1091

If you make those changes and the data still are not showing up, make sure the variable name in the MediaLab questionnaire matches--e.g., in this case the ML variable should also be "visits".

**ryalch** · 02-10-2009, 05:32 PM

I am having trouble using Custom items with radio buttons. When the data are stored, the entry is var_01=4 instead of 4. The sample in Radios.zip (above) stored "ok" as the responses--the numbers assigned to the buttons (1,2,3) do not get recorded. The response times are recorded but no values for the items. Also, the ml.subs does not work. If I put <ml.wording> directly in the html code, it works fine.

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