Var shufflesequence from Spreadsheet

[Matthew Hunt]

Hi again,

I am trying to run a simple scale experiment through a spreadsheet. It has 2 lines of dialogue. The first is always the same then the second is fed from the spreadsheet. The beginning of my code looks like this:

var shuffleSequence = seq(randomize(“Sentence”);
PennController.ResetPrefix(null);
PennController.Template(

row => PennController(
newText(“left label”, “uneducated”)
,
newText(“right label”, “educated”)
,
newText( “question”, ” P1: I just got promoted at work”)
.settings.italic()
.settings.center()
.print()
,
newText( “Sentence” , row.Sentence )
.settings.italic()
.settings.center()
.print()
,

——————-

This is followed by a question and a scale of 1-7. It all works fine without the top line (starting var), but when I add that to randomise the sentence from the spreadsheet it says ‘ERROR: There must be some items in the running order!’ when I run the exp. Any ideas?

Best,

Matthew

[Jeremy]

Hi again,

It looks like the problem is coming from a missing closing parenthesis in your first line. The bit of code you pasted has this line: var shuffleSequence = seq(randomize("Sentence"); when it should be var shuffleSequence = seq(randomize("Sentence")); (note the two closing parentheses)

(Also, I see you don’t define a “Sentence” label as the first argument of your PennController() command—is it intentional? You need some trials labeled “Sentence” if that’s your definition of shuffleSequence)

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[Matthew Hunt]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks a lot. I ended up with the following which worked (where “1” is a column in my spreadsheet):

PennController.Sequence( randomize(“1”) );
PennController.ResetPrefix(null);
PennController.AddHost(“http://files.lab.florianschwarz.net/ibexfiles/PennController/SampleTrials/”);
PennController.Template( PennController.defaultTable.filter(“Type”,”1″)

etc etc

best,

Matthew

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