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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)- Sorry to reopen an old thread, but this isn't really that complicated if you think of the feature as show/hide as opposed to creating individual branches that need to be pre-coded. If option 1 is selected, show subsequent section 1. If option 1 is not selected, do not show section 1. "Rinse and repeat." Final output table has all sections, but blank responses (or even a non-shown code?) for non-shown questions. This is how other platforms handle this.
