Feature Suggestion: Top Results Variable

  • Hey there, very good plugin!

    I have one suggestion as a core feature:

    It would be great to have the 3 to 5 best ranking scales as a fixed variable in EDIT FORMULAS.

    This would allow for many possibilities to get results like:
    scale_blue = Topresult_1 -> result blue
    scale_blue = Topresult_1 AND scale_orange = Topresult_2 -> result blue-orange

    Many personality tests have mixed results where the result is a combination of the two (or three) top ranking scales.

    This seems very difficult to achieve right now. To just find a combination of the two top ranking scales out of, say, seven scales requires quite long formulas as I need to compare all scales (unless I am stupid and overlook an obvious shortcut).

    Would be a great feature, I am sure many people would use.
    David

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  • Plugin Contributor ustimenko

    (@ustimenko)

    Hi David,

    Nice suggestion and not so hard to implement.

    Currently you can achieve something similar with paid computed variables addon.

    Thread Starter David2015

    (@david2015)

    That would of course declutter the EDIT FORMULAS, but it would not make things much easier as it would still require me to write all the complex formulas.

    Unless I totally have a knot in my head it is really quite tricky to find a combination of the two top ranking scales if you have more than 3 scales.

    The suggested feature would make life easier in a lot of use cases, and to hard-code the variables should not require more than a few lines of code.

    I’d be happy to donate to you if you make that a core feature!
    Nobody likes to work for free.
    You could as well make it part of Computed variables so people need to buy that to have this function.
    Let me know.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by David2015.
    Plugin Contributor ustimenko

    (@ustimenko)

    Contact me directly regarding financial stuff.

    One downside here is only what to do when we have same values on scales.

    So assume we have scale-red, scale-green, scale-blue and their values: 10, 5, 0.
    So here we can easily create 3 variables: scale_position_1 (10), scale_position_2 (5), scale_position_3 (0).

    But what if all scales will have same values? 10, 10, 10.

    Do they all should be scale_position_1? Or we should create scale_position_1, scale_position_2 and scale_position_3 with similar value?

    Also question here is how to name them: from top to bottom or reverse? Should scale_position_1 have max value or it should have minimal value?

    Thread Starter David2015

    (@david2015)

    Good Point. I guess that is a design decision.
    My favorite for same values would be to to create 3 positions with equal values, perhaps sorted alphabetically.

    If that is possible scale_position_1 could also hold both the scale name the scalee’s results-value, so we can compare them
    – or that is available in another variable like scale_position_1_value

    That way the User woud still be able to be flexible with somthing like
    scale-red = scale_position_1 AND scale_position_1_value > scale_position_2_value

    And deliver another “break-even”-result for other cases where position 1 and 2 values are equal.

    I would name them something like scale_topposition_1 to be clear about numbering.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by David2015.
    • This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by David2015.
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