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Thanks for your suggestions. I've been thinking a little more about what I'm going to need, and trying to incorporate your advice. Unfortunately I have close to no idea what I'm doing. I'll put a more detailed description about what I'd like to create out into the ether with the hopes that someone will take pity on me and be willing to give me some step-by-step instructions. After answering a series of questionnaires (which I've already created), participants will be presented with 5 blocks of pictures - so there are 5 distinct types of pictures they're going to be looking at. Each block contains 30 pictures. Each picture is presented individually in a random order. Subjects rate each picture by typing in a number from 0-100. A button will advance the subject to the next picture. They will then move on to the next block of 30 pictures, and do the same thing. It is important that the presentation order within blocks is RANDOM and that subjects NEVER see the same picture twice. Ideally, when looking at the data table, I would love to have each row represent a subject, and each column represent the rating of a specific picture (so column 1 would always be the rating for picture 1) - but as long as there's some way for me to identify that relationship (which subject rated which picture with what 0-100#), my life would complete - no, perfect! I don't have any specific way of doing this in mind, so whatever you think would be easiest for someone who has very little experience with FM would be great! Any help and/or suggestions would be very much appreciated! Thanks, Johanna

Hi, I'm creating a psychology experiment that requires that stimuli (different pictures) be presented in a random order to each subject. Subjects rate each piture as they appear. I assume that I should have a field for each picture, but can't seem to figure out how to present them in a random order. If you have any suggestions for how I might do this, I would really appreciate it! If the seperate fields thing isn't the best way to go, I'm open to suggestions... Thanks! Johanna

Thanks SOOOOOOO much! Worked like a charm! Best, Johanna

Hi All, I'm creating a questionnaire for subjects in a psychology experiment. I have one table containing all of the questions, and have created a separate layout for each question (so one question appears per layout along with a "next" button advancing you to the next layout with the next question on it). I want to include validations such that people MUST respond to each of the questions before moving forward. When I have tried to do so, it seems that the program wants ALL of the conditions for the entire table met for each layout/question. For example, I complete question 1 (select a radio button number), then click next to move forward, but receive a pop-up informing me I must make a selection before I continue. Any ideas? I'm totally new to Filemaker, so any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks. Cheers- Johanna

Hi Stanley - Thanks so much for your advice. Things seemed to be working really well until I tried to incorporate validations for each of the questions (e.g., must enter data for each question). So, on one layout I have questions about the subject's gender and ethnicity, and on the next layout I have the first questionnaire item. After completing the gender and ethnicity questions, I attempted to move to the first questionnaire item, but was prompted by an invalidation pop-up with the message saying I needed to respond the first questionnaire item before moving forward. Of course this isn't possible because I hadn't even gotten to the layout containing question 1. Is there some way to move from layout to layout (each layout containing a single question, but all coming from the same table), when there are multiple validations (one for each different question)? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks, Johanna

I'm trying to create a computerized questionnaire for subjects in my psychology experiment. Ideally, they would see uniform instructions in the header of each screen, receive each question individually, and use radio buttons to respond before pressing a button that moves them to the next question on the next page. I've figured out how to do all of this manually, but I'm sure I'm doing it the most absolutely dumb way ever (I'm a graduate student who has never used Filemaker before and I have a hunch that each question really shouldn't need it's own separate layout - really, it's ok to laugh). Any help would be very much appreciated by everyone in my lab. Think of your advice as a contribution to science. Cheers- Johanna FileMaker Version: 7 Platform: Mac OS X Jaguar