Question getQuestionByIndex



Question_getQuestionByIndex

Get a question object by its index in the current or specified questionnaire (use with QuestionIndex column in DCS)

Syntax

Question_getQuestionByIndex(index[, questionnaireResourceId [, isoCode])

Arguments

• index: is a number. It is the index in the current or specified questionnaire
• questionnaireResourceId: is a number. It is the resource Id of specified questionnaire
• isoCode : is a string expression. It is the ISO code of a language, if it is not specified, the current user's language (if it is defined in the questionnaire template) or the question's default language will be used

Return value

An array, it is the question object, which contains the following items:

Index	Data type	Value
QUESTION_ID	number	Id
QUESTION_TYPE	number	Type of question NotSet = 0, Single = 1, Multi = 2, Number = 3, Text = 4, Open = 5, SingleGrid = 6, MultiGrid = 7, TextGrid = 8, Page = 9, Multimedia = 10, Scale = 11, ScaleGrid = 12
QUESTION_LABEL	string	Label
QUESTION_TEXT	string	Question's text (in the specified language)
QUESTION_ANSWER_OPTIONS	array	Answer options
QUESTION_SUB_QUESTIONS	array	Sub questions

Example

array q1 = Question_getQuestion("5312BMW\\5312bmw_SALES_CATI_2008\\Gender");

array q2 = Question_getQuestion("Gender", "en-GB");

//output : {12,364872,1,Gender,<p> Your sex : </p>,{{13,1,Male},{13,2,Female},{13,3,Don't want to tell}},{}}

Availability

Version 5.801