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Hi, I would like to have participants complete a tweet that ends by #... Ideally I would like to have the same box as on Twitter when you enter a post, with just a #... static at the end of the post Alternatively I would like to have just a box with #... at the end Any ideas ?

I want to include css in my external stylesheet that is specific to certain blocks. Is it possible to target blocks? I have a custom button in my footer that I'd like to hide sometimes. It's related to this post: https://www.qualtrics.com/community/discussion/2080/javascript-button-that-jumps-to-the-last-block-not-the-survey-end#latest

I see that we can get SurveyID of the survey by using "${e://Field/SurveyID}". It returns "SV_cLN90pgyRKaCeDr" of below URL. I need a way to get block id(BL_1z5AE1U5mJzKem9). https://qtrial2018q1az1.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/preview/SV_cLN90pgyRKaCeDr/BL_1z5AE1U5mJzKem9

Edit: I realized that the validation does not activate until the participant attempts to move to the next page. Solved! Hello, I have a survey that requires the participant to self-generate a unique identifier code. The must use their fathers first and middle initials, followed by their mother's maiden name first initial, 2-digit date of birth and 2-digit year of birth. An example of a correct code would be NES2096. It doesn't matter if the letters are capitalized or not, but it must be three characters followed by four digits with no spaces or dashes. I think the Regex code I need is something like ^[A-Za-z]{3}[0-9]{4}$ I have the question set up as a single-line text entry with force response and with custom validation Question > Choice > Matches Regex > ^[A-Za-z]{3}[0-9]{4}$ and an error message if the validation fails; however, when I test this question on Preview mode (ignore validation setting is unchecked) it continues to the next question regardless of the response

Hi all, I have a delayed question appearing after a timeout. Participants need to answer it correctly, if not qualtrics validates with the inbuilt validation. The challenge: on failed validation, the page reloads, executing the onload jquery code again --> The delayed question is delayed again. Instead it should condition the delay to be executed only the first time the page loads: my approach: if the error msg is not shown, set delay = 0. I tried checking the css property of the ValidationError like so `if ( jQuery(".ValidationError").css("display") == "none" ) { ... }` but this doesn't work. How to check if the validation failed? Thanks, Jana

Hi everyone I'm hoping for some help with javascript to create a bipolar survey with text at either end of a 10 point slider and no question at the top. I'm new to Qualtrics, so I would need the simple version! Thanks guys!

So I am setting up an experiment where the participant views an email, then presses "S" if they think it is fake or "K" if they think it is real. I need to record the response time (which I have worked out and works exactly how I want it to), and to move them onto to the next question (which also works) however I also need to record the key press they used to answer the question, and this is not being recorded.

Is it possible to hide the background image that I put in using CSS from a single page? Ideally I want the background image to be absent on page 1, but present on all subsequent pages.

I would like to make the "Other" row of a matrix question optional, so people only need to answer when they write their own option in the text bar beside "Other."

I have some bolded key terms in some response options. At the end of the survey, I have a summary of responses that is populated using piped data. Here, I do not need those key terms to be in bold but the piped response brings the formatting with it. Is there a way to override this? For different reasons, I can not embed data or add branching midsurvey. I've tried overriding it by enclosing it in a <div font-weight="normal"> tag but no luck there. Other ideas?

I have a list of names that I'd like to ask the same question for, but for each person taking the survey this list of names will be different (i.e. some people will have n = 10, others might have n = 5 or n = 20). Is there a way to add n rows to my matrix question without hardcoding the number of rows? In other words, I want the number of rows in this question to be dynamic, according to how many names are in the list. Thanks for the help!

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Hi, I am trying to run a short quiz style survey. The quiz contains ten questions with a 10 second countdown timer on each question. I want respondents to proceed to the next page / question once the time runs out. However, respondents can refresh the page and the timer appears to reset. Is there any way to either: - Set the timer to continue from the same point after refresh? - Disable the refresh option on the page to prevent this? Either of the above would solve the problem. Any help would be much appreciated. Kyle

Dear all, I am working on a survey with a conjoint on two policy programs. People receive two different policy programs in a table which randomly varies in different attributes. I have used Kyle Dropps template (http://kyledropp.weebly.com/conjoint.html) to write the table in javascript/html. This also works but I would like to run the conjoint five times in a row. Attributes would always vary but it is necessary to do that for the analysis. However, if I copy the block with the code for the table four more times and check out the survey in the preview, I only get random results in the first table. The four other times there is nothing visible in the table. Does anyone know why this is? I did not change anything on the code. However, if I do a preview of the single block, it always works for all. Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this problem? Your help is very much appreciated!

Hi all, I'm a qualtrics noob and had a question about creating a form with dynamically linked options. So, I send out interview e-mails to college students. Because the students can't give me a straight answer, I'm chasing them down for weeks to book their interview. I'd like to send them a link to a form where they select the day and time they want to have the interview on, but some days the interviewees are not available, and other days they have specific time slots. Additionally, if a student selects a date/time slot, the next person that fills out the form can't select the same day/time. I'm not a programmer, but I understand i might need to create a script or something to make the form dynamic. Currently I use Google forms but our students have multiple google accounts, and the form allows for multiple people to select the same day/time. Then I need to track down students who never check their e-mail. Is qualtrics a possibility here? My school won't pay for any custom options,

Hi everyone, We have a custom HTML creative solution that is pointing to a div container via a hyperlink, and we may have to deactivate the current creative & survey and put a notification through to that div container instead, but I can't seem to find the best way to do it. My first instinct was to create a new Custom HTML creative to point to that div container (and switching the original one off). This creative would just have the notification message and some branding, but wouldn't click to anything. Unfortunately that didn't seem to work, but I'm not sure I'm setting it up correctly. Currently I have a Custom HTML creative set to "Replace target container contents", and then my intercept is set to pull this creative and is set to come up in the appropriate div ID. Does anyone know if this is possible with that type of creative? I know it is possible to do notifications with sliders, etc., but I'm trying to leverage the current set up as this would be something we need to switc

Hey ladies and gents, I read jquery works in Qualtrics. I tried to use the fadeIn() function but the survey complains that fadeIn() is not a function. I tried adding the jquery min to the header to correct for that in some jquery versions fadeIn() is not included, but this results in some other bunch of errors. Could you help me out? Cheers Jana

I am a paid user in a K-12 setting who has had issues with SSO for the community. A teacher and I want to use Qualtrics as a way to create "Mad Libs." Students fill out a form asking for nouns, verbs, adverbs, plural nouns, adjectives, etc....and those words are "fed" into a storyline. Any crazy ideas out there that would help us?

Hello All, I have an array that I have stored in embedded data that will be between 1-5 units in length depending on some information from the user. I want to set those as units as choices in a later question but I won't know exactly how many choices I need so am not sure how to populate the answer choices. When I write them in assuming there will be 5, I end up with blank choices, and when I try and just call the entire array, it calls them all in the same choice string separated by a colon, but not as separate choices. Thoughts on how to approach this? Thank you!

Hello! I am trying to customize some carry forward statements. I have a constant sum question and I want to carry forward the top 5 statements by inputted numerical value from that into my next question. Does anyone know how to do this?

I want to schedule my data pull in legacy format on every Friday from 1 Jan 2018 to current date and want to place in certain folder so that other team can use. I don't want all this work automated. Any Help?

Hello! I intend to use R to analyze my survey data, but have run into some trouble. The data I have exported into R with the API seems to be up-to-date in the sense that all surveys entered in the relevant Qualtrics project are present in the export, including some very recent surveys. However, there are discrepancies between what I see in the "Data & Analysis" tab and the data-set I end up with in R. It seems that edits made manually in the "Data & Analysis" tab aren't manifesting in the data I get through the API. Anyone have a clue what might be going on? It's been weeks since any edits were made to the data through the Qualtrics browser pages. Some more detail: I have encountered the problem with both the qualtRics and qualtricsR packages. I switched the classification of four surveys and added some missing data in mid-August through the browser, but these changes are not reflected in the data frame I end up with. I have tried some variations, but this is basically the R code I

I'm using API v3.0 to get survey responses. If I set the start/end times to pull data every 30 minutes it doesn't grab surveys in taht time frame, but if I set start/end times to pull every 24 hours that works leading me to believe that the API is ignoring the time portion of this parameter if its within the same day. Is that correct or is something wrong with my date/time parameters?

Hi everyone, I am designing a survey where I will ask participants to input start and end time of an activity in a matrix type question and for that I am planning to use the time picker function in java (see this link). However, I cannot figure out how to apply this java code to specific fields in the matrix type question (see the attached image below). Does anyone maybe know how this would be possible? Thank you very much for your help and suggestions! !

I have created a form for students to select tutorial groups. Its designed to so that they on they only choose groups that don't clash and are not full. I have put quotas for their choices. However the quotas are not updated until after students complete the form. Is there anyway for the number times a group is selected to update as soon as a student has chosen it whilst they are completing the form. So to prevent choices been made for already filled groups. Is there any way to do this?