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Preview task from a given point

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Sarah Gilmore

I don't want to always have to preview from the start of a task, if the changes I have made are at the end. Can I preview from a given point? My task takes over half an hour from start to finish so previewing from the beginning always is a real pain.

March 3, 2022

Linda M Reed

I've had to just create new tasks for every step of my whole experiment to avoid this problem. But it's still a total pain in the butt because there's no way to preview from a specific part of a spreadsheet, and every task still needs multiple displays... unless I just make a new Task for every display. That's a pain too.

And when it's time to preview the whole experiment, to see how it works from node to node... choosing which node to start from seems like a basic need.

Jade Pickering (Head of Product)

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Jade Pickering (Head of Product)

Hi Sarah! Does the 'Debug' feature in Task Builder 2 help you out with this at all? You can now preview any screen from any row of the spreadsheet instantly.

Joseph Heffner

Jade Pickering (Head of Product): 
Hi Jade, 
I know I wasn't the original poster but the Debug feature doesn't fully resolve this issue. The Debug feature only works within a single task (e.g., see an example trial of a task) but I believe the desired feature is to be able to preview a certain part of a larger experiment. 
For example, let's pretend I have an experiment with 3 tasks. Let's say the first task is irrelevant to what I'm debugging, and I want to make sure something from the second task is passed to the 3rd correctly. To debug this I have to take my entire experiment from the start (i.e., all 3 tasks). What I would like to do is start at task 2 (skipping task 1) and make sure it's passing info to task 3 correctly. This feature would be very helpful. 
I hope this was helpful. Thanks so much!
Best,
Joey

Jade Pickering (Head of Product)

Joseph Heffner: Hi Joey! That's definitely helpful, thanks!
I wasn't totally sure if the original post was about previewing a task from part way through the spreadsheet or about previewing a whole experiment from a particular task node so to be on the safe side I've put both options onto the radar for the Gorilla team internally :)
I'll make sure your extra comments are taken into consideration too!

Linda M Reed

Jade Pickering (Head of Product) Yes. All of that. We should be able to preview from wherever we are in the builder.

Joseph Heffner

This seems like a critical feature for debugging and testing large experiments. Please let us start the preview from any node in the experiment.