Hi, I have a series of questions that are text entry forms (which I have set up to be validated as numbers). After these questions I added a follow-up that I want to be automatically calculated based on those previous responses; however, despite being validated as numbers, I can't seem to create a math operation because those questions are registering as string fields rather than numerical. Is there a way to re-code this in javascript? I'm not very familiar with that coding language.Has anyone done this before? Any help is appreciated!

That doesn’t work because you can’t perform math operations on text fields, even though I’ve validated them as numerical answers. Below is what I get when I try to do the math operations:Strange. I’m not sure that has always been the case. Anyway, you can add this JS to one of the questions on the first page, then pipe “calc” on the next page:Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnPageSubmit(function() {var inputs = jQuery(".InputText");var calc = Number(inputs.eq(0).val()) - (Number(inputs.eq(1).val()) + Number(inputs.eq(2).val()));Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData("calc", calc);});

@hipsenWhat is your equation looks like? The syntax might be a bit trickyMeanwhile, check out this troubleshooting:https://www.qualtrics.com/support/survey-platform/survey-module/editing-questions/piped-text/math-operations/#TroubleshootingMathOperations

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