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MrNobodySpecial
Copper Contributor
Dec 04, 2022

Trying to create a form where the user can make multiple choices and then input a quantity for each

I work at a nonprofit that gives lots of stuff away. We need to create a form that allows each user/client to list what they have received. E.g. if they need two or three staplers and fifty hanging files they would select the items and a quantity request would appear. I feel this would be done better by a option to appear rather than a full branching for each item. I can see a way to do it by branching off from each item but I hope there should be a way to select while not leaving the list.

 

We have thousands of items to list and creating a separate branching for each of them seems overly cumbersome. I am new to using forms and would appreciate any suggestions that help us.

 

  • RobElliott's avatar
    RobElliott
    Silver Contributor

    MrNobodySpecial unfortunately there is no way to do that currently.

     

    Rob
    Los Gallardos
    Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

    • nicbeament's avatar
      nicbeament
      Brass Contributor
      allowing user to select an item, such as a Product and then Choose Quantity is basic functionality for forms in general. Its very poor that Microsoft has not added this to date.
    • MrNobodySpecial's avatar
      MrNobodySpecial
      Copper Contributor

      Dear Rob,

      Thank you for your input. Hopefully someone knows of a workaround or another program (like Jotform etc.) that will work this way.

      • RobElliott's avatar
        RobElliott
        Silver Contributor

        MrNobodySpecial the only workaround I can think of using Forms is to have a text question for each item, e.g. "How many staplers did you receive?", and set the restriction on that answer to be a number.

         

         

        Rob
        Los Gallardos
        Intranet, SharePoint and Power Platform Manager (and classic 1967 Morris Traveller driver)

         

         

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