Provide answer for a question which will not appear in the questionnaire but is linked to another question which appears

[agotossou]

I have two questions for which I want to get answers from the respondents
Q1; Your country of residence: country 1, country 2, country 3, country 4
Q2; The local currency of the country: currency 1 of country 1, currency 2 of country 2, currency 3 of country 3, currency 4 of country 4
We want Q2 to not be shown in the questionnaire but when the country is selected the currency is provided

[Kal_Lam]

@agotossou, you could do this through the cascading select as outlined in our support article Adding Cascading Select Questions.

[agotossou]

I can you cascading to that if the respondent selects country 1 the corresponding currency will appear in Q2.
What I cannot do is that we don’t want Q2 to appear and we want it to be auto-filled based on the choice made in Q1. Is that possible?

[Kal_Lam]

If this is what you need, maybe you could do it as outlined in the post discussed previously:

Automatic selection of one answer based on another

In this case you could do it as outlined in the image shared below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 1] In the choices tab of your xlsform: [Image 2] Data entry as seen in Enketo: condition that meets the first criteria [Output 1] Data entry as seen in Enketo: condition that meets the second criteria [Output 2] Data entry as seen in Enketo: condition that meets the third criteria [Output 3] Data entry as seen in Enketo: condition that meets the fourth criteria [Outp…

And this post should also be helpful:

How to auto select a response for the subsequent question basing a response from a previous question?

Hi @Ah_ly, You could do the same as outlined in the image below: In the survey tab of your xlsform: [Image 0.1] In the choices tab of your xlsform: [Image 0.2] Data entry screen seen in Enketo: [Image 0.3] Here Never is automatically selected in Q2 when Never is selected in Q1. Reference xlsform: Auto Select.xls (29.5 KB) Have a great day!

But please note that the cascading select approach should be more simple.

[agotossou]

Hello @Kal_Lam, I solve it with if(${Q1}=‘1’,‘1’,if(${Q1}= ‘2’,‘2’, if(${Q1}= ‘3’,‘3’, if(${Q1}= ‘4’,‘4’,’’))))

But, I am still wondering if question Q2 can be hidden? But still we be autofilled.

[Kal_Lam]

If you want to keep that hidden you could keep Q2 as a calculate question type instead of a select_one question type.

[agotossou]

Thanks for this. But the auto-fill of Q2 when I do a trial does not correspond to the labels, it rather put the rank of the choice. See below image

[Kal_Lam]

Maybe if you need the label instead of the value you could either use the label in the if-statement or utilize the jr:choice-name as outlined in the community discussion here.

[benmcdermott]

Hi @Kal_Lam and @agotossou - I was hoping you both may be able to help as I found this stream really helpful!

I see you resolved the issue around auto-populating the answer of one question from another. Do you know if there is a way to auto-update a question from a question earlier on in the survey?

Thanks in advance for your support on this,

Ben