Dear Sawtooth Team,
I have a question regarding a dependent attribute level the below example: Attr. C Level 2 can only be chosen if at least one of the levels 2 or 3 of Attr. A or B are chosen before, or any combination of these. Only if Level 1 of Attr. A and B are chosen together, Level 1 in Attr. must be chosen. For clarification purposes: Attr. C is a certification, that can only be applied if special production processes (Attr. A and B, levels 2 +3) are applied. Attr. C level 1 is "no certification" and can therefore be applied to all levels, of Attr. A and B as special and conventional can be "not certified". Attr. C level 2. is "third-party certified processes" which is only for special production processes possible.
Attr. A
Level 1 (independent)
Level 2 (independent)
Level 3 (independent)
Attr. B
Level 1(independent)
Level 2 (independent)
Level 3 (independent)
Attr. C
Level 1 (indepedent)
Level 2 (DEPENDENT: at least one of the Attr. A or B level 2 or 3 are chosen any combination of it )
In my actual ACBC there are 3 attributes and 7 levels that the depent attribute level is dependent on (which I leftout to make the example not too big). So I was considering tthe following options:
a) via prohibtions: however those are not recommended if there are multiple prohibitions, which would be necessary. Also, would prohibitions apply to the BYO section? e.g. someone would choose Attr. A and B Level 1 each, and wanted to choose level 2 of Attr. C (the dependent one) which would be prohibited. would the person get a popup to change the prior choices? or choice Level 1 instead of Attr. C?
or b) via implying Attr. C in the other attributes: duplicate those levels of Attr. A and B, where level 2 of Attr. C is applicable and call them the same + level name of Attr. C level 2 and delete Attr. C as a stand-alone attribute. The problem with this is manyfold: 1) I have no importance score for the Attr. C anymore 2) the duplicated levels lead to a high number of levels overall, so I had to exclude some original levels for Attr. A and B in order to have a reasonable number of levels 3) how can I analyze the utils from the original and duplicated level? how would I interpret them?
c) exclude Attr. C: as it is quite important I would rather refrain from doing so. If however the first two options are not recommended it would theoretically be possible.
Many thanks in advance for your always very helpful comments!
