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For a multiple choice question, my impression is that getChoiceValue() returns whether or not the option is selected. Is there a function to instead return the text value of the chocie? For example if I have choices “East”, “West”, “North”, “South”, and I did fn(2), it would return “West”?

@nroot Try this

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()
{
    this.questionclick = function(event,element){
    if (element.type == 'radio')
    {
        var choiceNum = element.id.split('~'))2];
        var qNum = element.id.split('~'))1];
        var choiceRef = "#"+qNum+"-"+choiceNum+"-label > span";
        var choiceText = document.querySelector(choiceRef).innerHTML;
        Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('choiceText',choiceText);
       }
    }
});

And pip-text ${e://Field/choiceText} see if it works

@nroot Try this

Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.addOnload(function()
{
    this.questionclick = function(event,element){
    if (element.type == 'radio')
    {
        var choiceNum = element.id.split('~'))2];
        var qNum = element.id.split('~'))1];
        var choiceRef = "#"+qNum+"-"+choiceNum+"-label > span";
        var choiceText = document.querySelector(choiceRef).innerHTML;
        Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('choiceText',choiceText);
       }
    }
});

And pip-text ${e://Field/choiceText} see if it works

 

This returns the text of the clicked choice - what I meant was to be able to query the text of any choice, by feeding a function the number of the choice. So I want to be able to query fn(1), fn(2), fn(3), etc., the way I can query getChoiceValue(1), getChoiceValue(2), etc. How do I get the elements without relying on an onclick event?

Ah, figured it out. In case someone else needs:

 

this.getQuestionInfo().Choicess1].Text

 

Replace “1” with the choiceId of whatever choice you need the text from.

Ah, figured it out. In case someone else needs:

 

this.getQuestionInfo().Choicess1].Text

 

Replace “1” with the choiceId of whatever choice you need the text from.

Or the shorter:

this.getTextValue(1);

where 1 is the choice id.

Ah, figured it out. In case someone else needs:

 

this.getQuestionInfo().Choicess1].Text

 

Replace “1” with the choiceId of whatever choice you need the text from.

Or the shorter:

this.getTextValue(1);

where 1 is the choice id.

 

That’s not quite right, yours returns the text value of the (optional) text box. E.g. in this setup:

 

 

this.getTextValue(3)

returns “asdf”

 

this.getQuestionInfo().Choiceso3].Text

returns “T3”, which is the desired behavior.

 

 

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