Help:Constant Sum (condition)

When you create a condition based on a Constant Sum question type, you must provide further information to describe the condition. The first thing you must select is the condition type, which has several possible values.

Respondent Answered Question

In order to show or hide the current question based on a respondent's prior answer, you will need to select the Respondent Answered Question condition. When you choose this type, another field labeled answered: will appear and you are prompted to Select an Answer. You must select one of the possibilities which include all of the answers defined for this question as well as the option [ Any Answer ], which will cause the condition to be true when the respondent chooses any of the potential answers for this question.

Once you have selected an answer, an additional field labeled entered: will appear. If you leave this blank, the condition will be true if the respondent enters any valid value for the selected answer. Otherwise, you may use this field to define additional restrictions on when the response will cause the condition to return true. You can use either exact match by entering a value or you can use a numerical expression to craft something like if the response is < 3 (less than three) or > 10 (greater than 10), for example.

Response Received Specific Score

If you have enabled scoring for the current survey, you can create a condition that depends on the respondent's score for a particular question. You can create this condition based on a minimum score, maximum score or both (which requires a score between the two values, inclusive). Check the restrictions you wish to set (at least to set a minimum score and at most to set a maximum score). If you choose to set them both, your value for maximum score must be greater than or equal to the minimum score. You then enter the score values and select whether you want the values to be considered points or percent. For instance, if a question has a maximum points possible of 4, then entering 2 points or 50 percent would be equivalent.

Question Not Answered by Respondent

Select this condition type if you wish to have it return true when the respondent has not answered the selected question.This condition will remain true until the respondent has answered the selected question with a valid response.

Respondent Answered Question

Response Received Specific Score

Question Not Answered by Respondent

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