Alert "too many empty pages"

[mpreis2]

Hey everyone,

In my study participants complete a questionnaire repeatedly at three measurement points. The questionnaire consists of 36 scenarios. After each scenario, three possible interpretations of the scenario appear in a randomized order and the participants need to rate how much they agree with each possible interpretation. At each of the three measurement points only a subset of twelve scenarios is shown and the order of the subsets per measurement point should be counterbalanced.

That’s why I divided all participants into three groups (via the shuffle function) before the first questionnaire and used the “show if” function in the questionnaire (shuffle$group == 1 for the first subset of scenarios, shuffle$group == 2 for the second subset of scenarios, shuffle$group == 3 for the third subset of scenarios).
If I use the “test run” function, I get the alert “too many empty pages in this survey. Please alert an administrator”. If I then use the refresh button, it takes some time but then the questionnaire is displayed correctly and the answers are saved as well.

I think the problem has something to do with the high number of “show ifs” used in the questionnaire because if I was assigned to shufflegroup 1, the questionnaire works till the last item and the alert only shows after that. At that time the mass of “show ifs” begins in the questionnaire for this group. If I was assigned to shufflegroup 2 or 3, the alert appears after the instruction, which is the time when the mass of “show ifs” begin for these two groups.

I found three earlier conversations in the google group concerning this alert and one member (j_ 5chneider, 30.09.2029) suggested a similar explanation. However, I did not find a solution for the problem.

I included a minimal json file and the google sheet of the questionnaire (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19sC2Kd4mdoXk8grd4K-ZOVeucU3n3M6ZAdTnPMAkIk4/edit#gid=0) and would be thrilled if you could help me out.

ideal_IB_test.json

Thanks a lot, and best wishes
Mira