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.


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When randomizing answer options customers often wish to keep to options together. That is, they wish for the options to randomly move about in the list of all answer options, however, they want them to remain together as a group. While we don't have a built-in feature for this you can set this up with a little snippet of JavaScript code. 

See this script in action in an example survey!

OR

Add a survey with this script and setup to your account!

Setup

To get started, create your list of answer options and set them to be randomized. Next, on the same page, add a JavaScript Action and paste the below code. Change the highlighted text of the script to read exactly like your answer options (case sensitive). 

$(document).ready(function(){
  var firstOption = $("li:contains('Keep this together 1')");
  var secondOption = $("li:contains('Keep this together 2')");
  secondOption.detach();
  firstOption.after(secondOption);
});

Finally, test your survey to ensure that the options are being kept together!