Lua Scripting Resources

Important Update to Custom Scripting

SurveyGizmo's CustomScript Action now supports the LUA programming language.


Legacy Custom Scripting Language Deprecation Plans 

  1. New accounts (created after October 29, 2018) will only have the option to use Lua in scripts.
  2. As of October 29, 2018 Custom Scripting Actions will default to Lua as the scripting type in the Custom Scripting Action for accounts created before this date. You will be able to switch to the Legacy Custom Scripting; though we highly encourage using Lua.
  3. In the long term, Legacy Custom Scripting Actions will be switched to read-only. Read-only scripts will continue to function; you will just be prevented from editing. The exact date on this is to be determined; we will send notifications well ahead of time.


 Go to our Legacy Scripting Documentation.

While SurveyGizmo is one of the most flexible survey tools around, we get requests for customizations that are not available out of the box. This is where JavaScript and Custom Scripting can save the day. If you have scripting chops you can use the JavaScript action or the Custom Scripting action to achieve the survey of your dreams.


[article("bodfy")]

This function returns the answer option title of the selected answer option (or null, if not answered). For single-select questions, a single value is returned. Multi-select and matrix questions will return an array.

Using the language parameter you can return the title in the given language. The possible values for the language parameter are the languages available in the translation menu. the value of language parameter must be title case.

See this function in action in an example survey.
Parameters*
Description
Required
questionID
the ID of the question
true
language
the language you wish to return
false

*Provide parameters in the above order.

Example

In this example, we return the answer option label(s) of a Likert scale question using getvaluelabel().

Take a Likert Scale question with the following labels and reporting values:

The output would be: Very Satisfied

print(getvaluelabel(2))