Hello Charles, I very often have to manipulate psychological test and subtest scores in LC that have to be exported in different formats. It is difficult to be sure I understand what you are trying to do, but I will say that I find the following the approach is one that suits me:
• I store item numbers which contribute to sub scale scores in a custom property of a field that contains the sub scale score. Sometimes 2 properties if some items are reverse scored. Very easy then to step through any number of sub scale fields with a generic script which will populate each with the correct result. I like to use custom properties because they are easier to check and change than if they are buried in a script. • I write several ‘harvest' routines to gather the data from scored up test and subtest fields, and store the results as a tab delimited table in an ordinary LC field, in whatever format is required. (by ‘format’ I mean 1 case per line, or rows and columns for each case, not digital ‘formats’) The contents of that field can then be printed, copied to the clipboard or exported as a file. With only 14 fields, it will be very quick once you have gone through the drudgery of writing the ‘data harvest’ scripts. Am I on the right lines? Best wishes, David Glasgow > On 8 Dec 2017, at 2:51 pm, Charles Szasz via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have 14 fields for subtest names named test1, test2, test3,..test14 and > another 14 fields for scores named score1, score2, score3,..score14. They > are all associated with different tests. Some tests will have all 14 subtests > and scores while others will have only have one subtest and one score. The > test names and scores are all the same length. > > I greatly appreciate your willingness to help me. I have been dealing with > this problem for a month or so. If you need more information, please let me > know. > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
