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[merpy]

Thanks, yusername! I'll have a look at that...but I may be back if I can't understand it. I've only been using MediaLab for a couple of weeks now and that looks pretty complex.

[merpy]

So is it not possible to do this without using HTML? I've already done the rest of the questionnaire in standard Medialab format, and it's going to look pretty weird if a couple of random pages are opened with Internet Explorer and have a completely different format.

I also don't know how to write to the response.xls file in the first place...I can't figure it out just from looking at your files. I don't know how to do this!!

[merpy]

I found a response to a similar question that looks like the best way to do this, but I only have medialab v2004!!!

You can insert previous fill in the blank and scale responses into question wording and response options by placing the variable name in <> brackets. In your case, you might have a multiple response question like this:

Code:

What groups are important to you?

1. <religion>
2. <race>
3. <politics>

I know you can draw these from previous scale response and fill in the blank items doing it this way. Not sure if you can draw from previous multiple response items. If not, you could do that using the advanced features via the responses.xls file (see guide for more on that).

Note that this requires v2006 or later, I believe.

Hope that helps!
Blair

[jarvis24]

You could do it with the Adavanced Features. You would just have to be sure to refer to the variable as it is normally written in the data file, e.g., myvar could be <myvar_01>, <myvar_02>, etc. Check out the section in the user's guid on Advance Features--it explains it pretty well and will also point you to a sample that illustrates this kind of stuff.

[merpy]

This works beautifully, and isn't nearly as complicated as I had thought. Thanks a lot!