Hi Donna,

It’s up to you. :) If you don’t assign numbers in the reporting value then the SPSS export with automatically assign them during the export process (and label them nicely in the variables tab of SPSS)

Assigning them ahead of time makes sense if you want to number the items a specific way. By default the exporter will number them from 1 to X from top to bottom.

Cheers,

-Christian

Hey, Rob!

In any question with predefined otions (like a radio button or checkbox question) go ahead and click on the little notepad and pencil next to that question from the edit survey tab. On the new page that comes up, you'll see your “Options” section, in which you'll have two columns, one for Option Titles, and one for Reporting Values, like this:

Hey, Kevin!

Currently, the only way to perform mathematical evaluations in a survey is to either use a continuous sum questions type which displays the total in real time, or to write a custom script that totals all of the values together (or divides them, multiplies them, sequences them, etc) and then writes the result to a hidden value or the %%output variable.

If any of this sounds confusing, just come right back and I'll help you out ;-)

You would need a hidden value field for each value you want to SET (after you've performed your math on it), the rest of the values are going to be pulled from existing questions, right? If so, you won't need anything else, because you can simply pull those values using our sgapiGetValue function.

Our custom scripting uses almost all of the same syntax as PHP, the only real difference is that where PHP uses a $ to denote $variable, we use %% for %%variable.

“[%%GET_x]” is not a function, it is a merge code, which cannot be used inside of a custom script.

[%%GET_hello] does the same thing outside of custom scripting that sgapiURLValue(“hello”); does inside of custom scripting. Your custom script uses only merge codes (but without the square brackets).

So, where you have

%%UserID=%%GET_var1+%%GET_var2+%%GET_var3;

You'll actually want to change this to

%%UserID = sgapiURLValue(“var1″) + sgapiURLValue(“var2″) + sgapiURLValue(“var3″);

Enjoy!