# Presenting experiment information on the screen

**URL:** <https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/presenting-experiment-information-on-the-screen/8585>\
**Category:** Builder\
**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/presenting-experiment-information-on-the-screen/8585 "2019-07-21T14:17:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Zehra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c37758/32.png) [@Zehra](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Zehra)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/presenting-experiment-information-on-the-screen/8585/1 "2019-07-21T14:17:01Z")

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If this template helps then use it. If not then just delete and start from scratch.

\*\*\*I think I found the answer, PsychoPy Book, p.212, 213, and 214 🙂

macOS Mojave 10.14.5  
PsychoPy version: v3.1.2  
Standard Standalone? (y/n): Yes  
Builder view

\*\*What are you trying to achieve?:\*\*I want to present experiment setting information (e.g. participant ID, experiment name, gender, DOB etc) on the screen. I mean I want my participant would see the whole information before starting to the experiment (like instruction screen). I would enter all the information in the box then they appear on the next screen.

**What did you try to make it work?:** I created a text routine and entered the same information on it (e.g. participant ID, experiment name, gender, dob etc) but it doesn’t show up. I think I cannot connect to experiment information with a text screen. I found something on the psychopy page (For example, if the Experiment Info included a field called ori then Builder Components could access expInfo[‘ori’] to retrieve the orientation set here) and add ‘ori’ on the experimental setting but did not work.

Could you help me with how I can connect both?

Thank you.  
Zehra

\*\*What specifically went wrong when you tried that?:\*\*No, error message  
Include pasted full error message if possible. “That didn’t work” is not enough information.

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**Author:** ![jderrfuss](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.psychopy.org/jderrfuss/32/5245_2.png) [@jderrfuss](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/jderrfuss)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/presenting-experiment-information-on-the-screen/8585/2 "2019-07-21T15:26:36Z")

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Hi Zehra,

Please find a minimal working example attached.

Hope this helps.

Jan

[show\_expInfo.psyexp](https://discourse.psychopy.org/uploads/short-url/xpEMiWWNyHNpybtKpbW7l8zZ7QZ.psyexp) (4.1 KB)

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**Author:** ![Zehra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c37758/32.png) [@Zehra](https://discourse.psychopy.org/u/Zehra)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.psychopy.org/t/presenting-experiment-information-on-the-screen/8585/3 "2019-07-21T17:33:39Z")

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Hi Jan,  
Thank you so much! It works now, and I got the logic behind! 🙂  
Best,  
Zehra