How Variables and Dialogs Are Asked

A variable is asked automatically when all of the following conditions are true:

• The answer for the variable is used (for example, tested in an IF instruction or merged into text), and
• The variable hasn't been asked before in the interview, either by itself or as part of a dialog, and
• The variable is marked Ask automatically.

A dialog is asked automatically when all of the following conditions are true:

• The dialog has not been asked before in the interview, and
• A variable to which the dialog is linked is marked Ask automatically.

Additionally, a dialog will be asked automatically when it is used in a REPEAT instruction.