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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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ChrisLangfield
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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
    Silver Contributor
    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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        Simon_P735
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        Nov 10, 2021

        ChrisLangfield Agree. My previous replies on this thread suggest having the option of making questions conditional upon previous responses, including multiple select responses, which is what I think you are suggesting too.

        There's no scripting language exposed for the form creator to use, and I don't think that would be appropriate for the target audience for MS Forms. However, in other products (e.g. modern SharePoint conditional column formatting) Microsoft have proved themselves eminently capable of embedding ui-based expression builders into their products - so this is very do-able.

         

        * I was first employed as a professional programmer 37 years ago

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