maxgroups

The maxgroups tag specifies the maximum number of options or quota groups that a respondent may be assigned to, provided that the respondent meets qualifying condition criteria and, in the case of a quota, the bucket is not full. This tag can be used on checkbox or quotas variables. In each case, the default value is different.

Checkbox

For type: checkbox variables, the default value for maxgroups is automatically set to the number of options the variable has: in other words, respondents will punch ALL buckets for which they qualify. To restrict this to an arbitrary value, include the maxgroups tag.

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Quotas

Quota variables, by default are single select questions: they occupy a single data location, and the value of that location is occupied by the code of the option assigned to each respondent. When a maxgroups tag is added to the quota definition, this changes: quotas become multi-select questions, where each quota bucket has its own data location.

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Conditioned maxgroups

Advanced conditional inputs are also permitted with maxgroups. For example:

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Using heredoc syntax

The maxgroups tag will also accept heredoc in order to define multiple conditions for the grouping. For example:

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