How to manipulate phone numbers

Hi kirsten_thompson,
Assuming you're just adding "1" to the start of each number, you could do something like this:
//put this in the onready function for your question
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" .InputText").on('blur',function(){
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('Phone', "1" + jQuery(this).val());
});
Whenever the user clicks off of the field, it will update the "Phone" embedded field with the inputted value with a 1 at the start.
Good luck!

Thanks, bgooldfed! This question is set up as a form field with two text boxes, one for phone (QID182 Value 1) and one for email (QID182 Value 2). Would this JS add a 1 in front of the email address, as well?

https://community.qualtrics.com/XMcommunity/discussion/comment/49049#Comment_49049It would, and it would store the email as the Phone variable too. Not what we want, so you'll need to make the selector a little more specific.
Assuming the phone field is the first one in the list:
jQuery("#"+this.questionId+" .InputText").eq(0)on('blur',function(){
Qualtrics.SurveyEngine.setEmbeddedData('Phone', "1" + jQuery(this).val());
});
Otherwise you can increase the '0' in 'eq(0)' to select further down the list (indexes start at 0 in JS, hence the first element is at 0).
Hope that helps!

You don't need JS. You can do it in the survey flow after the phone question:
Set embedded data:
Phone = 1${q://QID82/ChoiceTextEntryValue/1}

Thanks TomG! I didn't realize it was so easy to add text to ED fields...
This worked with a slight modification. Because some of our respondents have entered numbers as XXXXXXXXXX and some as XXX-XXX-XXXX, we had to append 1-. The hyphen means all numbers will be in an acceptable format for SMS distributions.