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BeckyLC
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Apr 02, 2020

Multiple Choice answers with branching per answer

Hello,  I am new to the MS Forms platform but so far find it to be user friendly.  The challenge I am having now thought is determining if the system allows for branching per answer when the question...
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RobElliott
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Feb 16, 2021

kirstenmiller I suspect this will never be implemented because the branching would have to take account of every possible combination of checkboxes selected.

 

Rob
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ChrisLangfield
Copper Contributor
Nov 09, 2021
No it wouldn't. What I would want is for it to be based on the usual market research options of any (ie at least one), all, or none of the selected items (it could get fancy and allow between N and X of the selected items if more than two are selected; wider still, include an option for only these and no others, but those are more complex). One simply ticks a number of boxes, makes the choice of any/all/none, and the routing is based on that being true or false. Can that be done?
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    Star_D
    Iron Contributor
    Nov 09, 2021

    ChrisLangfield , but isn't that human logic? Computers don't think like people.
    For a program, doesn't every permutation have to be iterated on the back-end for that routing to take place?

    ***DISCLAIMER: I am not a programmer***

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      RobElliott
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      Nov 09, 2021

      Star_D yes that sounds about right to me :smile:

       

      Rob
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        ChrisLangfield
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 09, 2021

        RobElliott Well, I am a programmer, and I'm used to filtering multiple-choice questions in market research software on the number of boxes that have been ticked. Easy example: build a string of the answers such as ,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, - then check if it contains ,1, or ,2, or ,3, with something simple like find(string,",1,")  > 0. I don't know what the underlying language can handle, but things like SQL will cope quite easily. It doesn't have to equal, just contain. I'm concerned that the responses are showing a lack of ambition here. By the way - it should also be possible to make "None" an exclusive answer so that it cannot be ticked if any other answers are ticked, which is fairly basic survey stuff.

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