Difficulties using variable conditions files for loop online

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Hello everyone,

I’m currently working on my first project using Pavlovia. I encountered an issue trying to use variable conditions files in one loop depending on a group variable for counterbalancing reasons.

In my first routine in the begin experiment section I am defining the group variable:

group = 0
balance = int(expInfo["participant"]) % 3

if balance == 1:
    group = 1
elif balance == 2:
    group = 2
elif balance == 0:
    group = 3

For the loop mentioned above I put

$"test_trials_cb" + str(group) + ".xlsx"

into the Conditions field so that for each group a different conditions file is used.

Up until now this worked perfectly when uploading to Pavlovia but after my last edit to the conditions files I get the following error message when trying to compile to JS:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\PsychoPy3\lib\site-packages\psychopy\experiment_experiment.py”, line 829, in findPathsInFile
filePath = eval(filePath)
File “”, line 1, in
NameError: name ‘group’ is not defined

When I left the Conditions field empty, I could compile to JS again so I restored the conditions file to their previous status but I still got the error message.

Thank you already for any suggestions on how to fix this.

Jens

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Sorry for causing traffic but I managed to fix it by uploading the exact same experiment copied into another directory to a new Pavlovia project. Just in case anybody encounters the same issue.

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