Forum Discussion
Drop down box and lists
I would like to see a drop-down box as an option. I created a choose a student and it lists 109 students. I would like it to be a drop-down option.
It would also be user friendly if I could just copy an excel column and paste it and each cell becomes a new option.
Hi Brian,
If you add more than 6 options, the choice question will turn into dropdown control automatically.
Please note that the dropdown control only supports single choice.
New update [July, 2018]
We have enabled a settings in choice question, so you could manage "dropdown" by yourselves.
Regards,
Zhongzhong
- Zhongzhong_Li
Microsoft
Hi Brian,
If you add more than 6 options, the choice question will turn into dropdown control automatically.
Please note that the dropdown control only supports single choice.
New update [July, 2018]
We have enabled a settings in choice question, so you could manage "dropdown" by yourselves.
Regards,
Zhongzhong
This option should be available in mobile view.
It is only possible to use "drop down list" if its viewed on a desktop computer. If you view form as an end user on a mobile phone, it is not shown as a drop down. We need it to work on mobile phones as well
Zhongzhong_Li wrote:Hi Brian,
If you add more than 6 options, the choice question will turn into dropdown control automatically.
Please note that the dropdown control only supports single choice.
New update [July, 2018]
We have enabled a settings in choice question, so you could manage "dropdown" by yourselves.
Regards,
Zhongzhong
Lennin_Chavez Do you know if this option has been fixed? I am dealing with the same issue.
Thanks, but I also noticed that the drop down box shows all names and you have to scroll down the whole page to get to the bottom if it's a long list. Then if you choose the name you have to scroll back up to get to the next question. Is it possible to include a scroll bar within the choices so you don't have to scroll down. Definately is not user friendly with it.
- Zhongzhong_LiHi Brain, thanks for the feedback. I have added FW the message to our engineering team.
Thank you for the information. It is very helpful.
However the drop down does not appear in mobile view. Can we have the consistency across mobile and desktop?
- I absolutely agree. I also have a large list to manage for courses, and automatically renders Forms useless for this use case. Would like to see it added ASAP. Thank you
Hi Has there been any movement on adding a scrolling option to the drop down list? I have a requirement for about 100 options. This makes the form not very user friendly.
I haven't used this for a while, but the last time I checked it still has not been updated. I know google forms it allows you, but my school uses office 365 which limits what I enjoy using. I also wish they would allow you to have the excel spreadsheet accessible and update as information is entered on forms. But now, you have multiple steps to get it and share it.
I second this suggestion. In my classes, it would make data sorting easier if students could select what class period they were in (ex. B2 Honors World History, R3 AP Government). We also ask teachers to evaluate multiple students for NHS induction using the same form, and I would love to have them select a name from a drop-down box instead of relying on them to type the student's name accurately every time.
- Zhongzhong_Li
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for the feedback.
I'll share the message with my team.
Regards,
Zhongzhong
Brian Dixon was this resolved? as i also very interested in a solution to this.
- Yeah, still unusable.
Microsoft are lagging way behind Google on this.
I'm actually surprised organisations (like mine) still use them. It's really quite debilitating. Once you paste your list, go all the way to the bottom and choose the dots to the right; this will give you an option for dropdown (as opposed to the default of Choice). Scroll bar has been enabled for the actual dropdown. Just created one to test and all is good. Limited characters for options, though
It is frustrating that you cannot start typing and the list is filtered by the characters. Makes it extremely unuser friendly for long lists!
surely there's a simple solution for this.
Tony
Is there any way to adjust the width of the list options?
Ward Scott no, there is no way to do that.
Rob
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