How do I pipe selected answers from a Card Sort into a follow-up question? (Power Surveys)

If you try to pipe selected answer(s) from a Card Sort question into the text of a follow-up question, the piped answer show as the category label. If you need to pipe in the selected answers rather than the category you can create a recode with the answer options from your Card Sort question, and then use the recode to pipe particular answers into the text of your follow-up question.

Example

You have a Card Sort question named Product_Comparison which asks respondents to compare the product properties with competitors using these 5 category options:

• Much Better
• Better
• About the Same
• Worse
• Much Worse

A follow-up question will be asked of respondents for further insight on negative feedback. You would like to pipe the responses selected in the Product_Comparison question into the follow-up question.

Detailed Steps

Access the References and Recodes section

1. In the survey, click the Questionnaire tab.
2. At the bottom of the Questionnaire Tree, click References and Recodes.

Create the Recode

1. In the References and Recodes section, right-click on the study name and select Add recode.
2. Name the recode and click OK.
3. Enter the answer options of your Card Sort question in the same order they appear in the original question.
4. Click the filter icon next to Precode 1.
5. Find the Card Sort question that you want to pipe answers from and double-click it to add it to the filter.
6. Click the Include tab.
7. Click the gear icon and choose Add condition.
8. Add logic for the first answer option. In this case, the filter of the first condition is:
   Product_Comparison_0 IS ONE OF Worse, Much Worse.
9. Click Save.
10. If you want to pipe more than one answer option, click Add to add a new answer and repeat steps 4-9 above until required answer options are added. 
11. Click Save on the top right to save the recode.

Pipe the Responses

1. Open the follow-up question that you want to pipe the selected answer into.
2. Select the question editor and place your cursor where the piping should be added.
3. On the menu bar of the Question Editor, click the Pipes  icon.
4. Find and select the recode created in the previous steps above.

More Information

Please visit the following Webhelp links to learn more:

• Recodes
• Piping