Value of variable associated to unanswered questions

Question

I have a survey that has say 3 questions : Q1, Q2 and Q3. Suppose that a respondent get only Q3 and when I ask Q3 I need to know if Q2 was unanswered.

If I write in the logic: Q2 = "" this is wrong and Q2 = 0 is not right . How can I know if this question is unanswered ? What is the value connected to an answered question ?

Please note I have also run a javascript alert and I made sure that the value is not null, "" or void(0).

Do you have any clue ?

Many thanks.

Luigi

Answer 1

Use answered(q2) function. Its documentation is in help as well

There's also shown() if you're ingerested

Comments

Can I use this answered(q2) in the javascript code ?

So I can write in javascript :

if (answered(q2)) {

do stuff
}

Or do I have to use something like: SSI_answered(q2)? Cannot find the customized functions in the help. Can you tell me where they are ? Thank you

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Hmmm, I'm not sure about javascript function, but the following should work in nany case,

If([%q2%] ==" ")

For some reason ssi retreves a space for emptt questions in javascript. That's a recent experince