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Dear List,
I would like to combine the files of a group of students, who simultaneously perform the experiment. The problem: either they all start the experiment from the same directory (on the university server), but then all computers will simultaneously try to edit the same results-datafile), or each student works in his own directory, but then all files get the same name, so I cannot move them all into the same directory. Is there a way to make variable file names (for example, include the Subject-Number) into the output file name?
Thanks

Hi Marci,

In cases where the experiment is loaded from a file share, or the data path is set to a file share, Inquisit will save each participant's data to a separate file with a unique file name that includes the date and time and the subject number.

The best way to do this is to specify a share in the data element, for example:

<data>
/ file = "\\myserver\mysharefolder\"
</data> 

The key is to make sure the path begins with "\\", as that's how Inquisit knows it's saving to a share.

Hope this helps,
Sean

That certainly is very helpful, thanks a lot!