Translations:ExpressionScript - Presentation/20/en
From LimeSurvey Manual
These words are commonly used to describe the capabilities of the EM:
- Relevance-based Branching - if a question is relevant, then ask it, otherwise don't (e.g., make it invisible and mark it as NULL in the database). You may find the Relevance fields in the question editor panel as well as in the question group editor panel. The later is used to apply a set of conditions to an entire group without having to copy the same condition to each question, and/or combine group and question-level conditional logic).
- Tailoring - Once you know which questions should be asked, tailoring (sometimes called piping) specifies how the question should be asked. This lets you support not only simple substitution (like {TOKEN:FIRSTNAME}), but also conjugation of verbs and declination of nouns based upon the gender or number of your subjects. It also lets you change the message you deliver to a survey respondent based upon whether they answered (or how they answered) other questions.
- Equations - EM adds a new question type called Equation which stores the result of an Expression. The equation results are computed and written to the database, even if you hide them on the page. Thus, they are used for hidden scoring calculations, navigation based upon complex equations, assessments, and reports that will be generated and stored within the database.