Hello, I am currently experiencing a bit of a excel file bug. I have nested loops such that the outer loop refers to an excel file containing the names of the inner loop excel files. (Images shown) I have sounds playing and i read that having a parameters column called sound is not great so i chan…

I don’t think it matters but try this. [image] wakecarter: To update trials_5 open one of your new Excel files and then change the Conditions back to $part_1 + '.xlsx'

[image] Wakefield's Daily Tips Blog Use foreslashes not backslashes in file paths Windows file paths use backslashes (\) to separate the folders in the path. This doesn’t work online because Linux-base servers use slashes (/) instead. Worse than that, the back…

Sorry, i used the wrong terminology, i meant parameters are loaded in wrong. In the last image its the title of the parameter which is different than the parameter which is loaded via the loop

Hello @radi An addition to wakecarter’s tip. You use an absolute path to your sound files, e.g. C:\User\rd0042\OneDrive - University of Surrey\Documents\Scene_object_task. However, if you are running the experiment online, you will need a path relative to the folder where your experiment is stored,…

Hi Jens, Yes I have separate excel files for the online task since it requires mp3 instead of wav and a different directory. I think what @wakecarter suggested worked, but what confuses me is how the sounds still played even though the name of the column was wrong on the local task. I expected an …

Hello @radi [image] radi: I checked all my condition files and found out one was still sound instead of soundfile on the online repository so that was where the error for that was but still confused about the local task. Great that you found a solution. One way to avoid this error is to use …

Thank you jens, I might have to start doing that since the excel files are quickly becoming too much as we are doing4 sessions of the task and each has 4 blocks of 30 trials :smile: best, Rad

Here’s my tip on that. [image] Wakefield's Daily Tips Blog Avoid multiple spreadsheets One way of counterbalancing blocks in an experiment is to have an outer loop which points to a spreadsheet which contains the names of different spreadsheets to use in an in…

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Here’s my tip on that.

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