Question and Answer Piping

Piping is the ability to display answer text within the text of another question.  Within the question text or instruction text you can:

• display an answer to a question in a previous section
• display the report text, report text 2 or report text 3 for an answer to a question in a previous section

Within the Answer Report text you can

• include the answer to any question (including the current one).  

Question Piping

The available merge strings for Question text and instructions piping are:

Use the RepText parameter to access other report texts.

Multiple merge strings can be used in one question (or instruction), for example, a question:

{ResponseAnswer.AnswerText[S1 SS1 Q10]}, you scored Product Safety {ResponseAnswer.AnswerText[S2 SS2 Q20]}, can you tell us why you gave it that score?   

would appear in the response entry screen as:

Tom, you scored Product Safety 8, can you tell us why you gave it that score?   

Answer Piping

The available merge string for Answer Report Text, Report Text 2 and Report Text 3 is:

Answers can even include later questions in the assessment providing that the answer is input before the report is produced.  The answer text may be text entered into a text box or the answer selected from a list.