Piping logic is a great way to reference a question, answer, response, or image that a respondent saw or gave earlier in the survey. It's best used for reminding respondents what they selected, creating clarifying rounds of ranking, or asking follow-up questions about prior selections without needing to clone entire question strings.

How to Use Piping Logic

Piping is expressed using square brackets: [...]. Formulas must be typed directly into survey fields — character counts are not affected by logic formulas.

You can reference a variety of sources:

• PQ# — Prequalification question and its number
• Q# — Question and its number in the survey
• SQ# — Subquestion and its number
• A# — Answer and its number
• R# — Response and its number
• R — All responses given to a question or subquestion
• i — Image
• c — Comment (optional open-ended answer)

Piping formulas are not case-sensitive and do not require spaces or other separators between elements.

If you have any questions about implementing piping logic, reach out to support@aytm.com or click Chat with us at the top of the page.