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2 weeks 2 days ago #260436 by PaulMRFGR
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Hey,

We have a question which needs to show multiple questions on one page (we can't use the Group format because we need other questions in the survey to be shown individually). A multiple free text question would be a good workaround but we would need some to be dropdowns.

Does anyone know how we would do this?

The survey has been attached with the example question which shows which questions need to be free text vs dropdown

Please provide the details of the first course you attended below:
  • Name of training/course. (FREE TEXT)
  • If training was developed by an in-house provider, please only state their job role (FREE TEXT - Ideally an option to put NA dropdown or free-text)
  • If training was developed by an external provider, please name the provider. (FREE TEXT - Ideally an option to put NA dropdown or free-text)
  • Was the training bespoke to your team? (DROPDOWN - Yes/ No/ Don’t know)
  • Was the training accredited? (DROPDOWN - Yes/No/Don’t know)
  • How long was the training course? E.g. half day/full day/ 6 days. (FREE TEXT)
  • How many of your staff have attended the training/course? (e.g. A single staff member, part of the team, full team) (FREE TEXT)
  • Roughly speaking, what was the key focus/content of the training course? (FREE TEXT)

     

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2 weeks 2 days ago #260438 by tpartner

...(we can't use the Group format because we need other questions in the survey to be shown individually)..
The best option is to use group-by-group. Of course, you can place a single question in a group.

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2 weeks 2 days ago #260449 by PaulMRFGR
Thanks Tony, the group-by-group format doesn't work because we have general questions which we would prefer to show one-by-one

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2 weeks 1 day ago #260455 by Joffm
Exactly this.
We always recommend "group by group"

Several advantages.
If you put only one question into each group it's the look& feel of "question by question". This is what you wrote.

There are many javascript workarounds that merge several questions to look like one single question.

You still have the option to put more than one question into a group, like 
"How do you rate XYZ?"
And after a low rating there appears a follow-up question.
"Why did you... Please, explain"

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