Forum Discussion
Multiple Choice answers with branching per answer
This doesn't seem to be possible at the moment. I don't actually think that branching based upon multiple selections is feasible. What is actually required is conditional questions. So, the option of having a rule on a question that says - show this question if the following condition is true. e.g.
On question 9 have a rule that says only show this question if the respondent selected choice 5 on question 6 etc.
Forms is like someone's pet project at Microsoft and is not really advanced. It is definitely clunky and hope there will be more advancements as most often we run into this above scenario. A combination of two questions decides further sets of questions.
KumarHari007 we are needing to do the same thing.
Karen2021 in all the posts mentioning other platforms no-one has answered the problem of how they or Microsoft could possibly implement branching on multiple select options in a question. With 8 choices there are 40,320 possible branching combinations. I just don't think there is any way Forms will ever offer this level of complexity.
Rob
Los Gallardos
Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)- what if, instead of all possible permutations, the presence of a check on any of the multi-selects could show an additional follow up question. By implementing it this way, each option of the multi-choice question could be treated as an atomic interaction; the only permutations at that point are on and off. It would be easier for the user to complete than separating out each response into a separate question. The case I'm trying to solve for is a form responded identifying which role(s) they play in a system. Any individual may play multiple roles. With some of the roles I want to collect additional data which would be nonsensical to other of the roles.
