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Updates for Advanced Rule Writing

Mario Lurig — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:41:45 +0000

The Advanced Rule Writing tutorial continues to be a popular tutorial for Professional and Enterprise level customers of SurveyGizmo, as they get more involved in the advanced logic available. This tutorial, as well as the Merge Codes tutorial, have recently been updated with some tools to help you check your rules and merge codes for the proper syntax.

Embedded inside both tutorials are now merge code checkers to make sure the merge code you have is valid. The Advanced Rule Writing tutorial has two additional features:

A rule checker, that will check a single rule ~~(no AND, OR, or parenthesis)~~(AND and OR now supported up to twice in the rule, 3 items compared, parenthesis still not allowed) for proper formatting. This includes checking that the correct operators (equals, greater than, etc.) match up with the use of quotations.
A rule creator, allowing you to enter in the merge codes and reporting values from your survey, answer a few questions, and it will show you the correctly formatted rule! Once again, single rules only, but combining rules is the easy part.

The Advanced Rule Creator is available to anyone, so feel free to give it a try! We hope this helps bring down the barrier to entry for Advanced Rule Writing for many of the users of SurveyGizmo.

Advanced Rule Writing – Now for Email Auto-Responders!

Mario Lurig — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:13:56 +0000

Sometimes digging up the past leads to a better future. This is one of those cases where a feature that once existed was replaced with a simpler and easier to use version. As the tool grew and documentation improved, more and more users are looking for the advanced version once again.

In this case, I’m talking about our Action > Send Email (email auto-responders). For a long time we’ve offered the ability to set a Simple Send When Rule so that you can dynamically send the email based upon the response to a single question. The trouble comes in when you need to check against multiple questions. Now, with great fanfare and a large banquet, the return of Advanced Rule Writing for email autoresponders! (trumpets sound)

You’ll find the new box underneath the Simple Send When Rule when you edit your Send Email Action. Though noted on the page, be advised that the new ‘Do Not Send When’ advanced rule will be superseded by the simple rule if both are present. Enjoy the ~~old~~ new feature!

New Advanced Rule Writing Tutorial

Brittany Heidtke — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:00:26 +0000

Have you ever wondered how to write one of our advanced show/when or show/hide rules? Or have you needed to make a rule based off of the answers to two or more questions and you weren’t sure how? Well, you’re in luck! We now have a full tutorial on advanced rule writing that will guide you through the steps of creating rules and making them work the way you want.

Go check out the Advanced Rule Writing tutorial and tell us what you think!