Piping Text
What is piping?
Piping enables you to carry text from one question to the next depending on the options selected by the respondent. For example if you have a scenario as described below
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Now you would like to replace the text XXXX with the actual product that the respondent had selected for question 1. Piping will enable you to replace XXXX with the appropriate text. If the respondent had selected Product A for question 1 then question 2 will be displayed as:
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How to setup Piping?
To set up Piping, go to:
- Login » Surveys » (Select Survey) » Edit Survey » Add/Edit Questions » Fly Out Menu » Logic
- Clicking on the Logic button on the fly-out menu will open the logic popup
- You will be on the Branching / Skip Logic screen
- For the Answer Options, select the jump to location.
- Select Piping Text as the Piping Variable. Enter the text you want to pipe forward in the text box and save.
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In the destination question, use ${piping_text} where ever you would like the piped text to show up. For example, in the above scenario, question 2 would be set up as:
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Can I carry over the Piping Text to multiple pages?
Piping Text can only be carried over to the Next Immediate page. If you wish to carry over text to multiple pages you can do so using Custom Variables. For more information please see link below.
Is there any limitation on the number of characters that can be piped?
Piping text has a limitation of 255 characters (Including Spaces/Special Characters)
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