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Pick, Group and Rank Vars

  • November 21, 2017
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RachelTHREE
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What is the significance of the _group and _rank vars for Pick, Group and Rank questions? Is the _group the bucket you place the row items into and the _rank where they fall within that bucket? How do you all interpret these vars when reporting?

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AnthonyR
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  • November 21, 2017
The group is the bucket you place them in, and the rank is their place within that bucket. We don't use these often, but I find that the combined set can be a bit daunting to look at a report for. Personally, I prefer breaking this in to multiple questions.

JenF
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> @AnthonyR said: > The group is the bucket you place them in, and the rank is their place within that bucket. We don't use these often, but I find that the combined set can be a bit daunting to look at a report for. Personally, I prefer breaking this in to multiple questions. I agree with Anthony regarding the complexity of analyzing the both the Grouping and the Ranking from one question. I prefer to use the Matrix question type and then choose the drag and drop. This does not require the ranking. ! Often one of my boxes is something like "critical". If I want to know how they rank within the critical box only, then I create a ranking question that uses the Carry Forward of those which had been placed in the critical box.

RachelTHREE
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  • November 21, 2017
@JenF this is awesome - thank you so much! I didn't realize this functionality existed and is a great solution for what we need!

JenF
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Glad to hear that. I was also glad when they came out with this.