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6 years 4 months ago #160173 by IlanaWilken
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Hi everyone

Scenario:
One of my survey questions requires responders to enter 2-5 words as an answer. I would like them to enter each word in its own text box. Is it possible to provide the responders with 3 text boxes initially, and then they can just add two more if required? If it is possible, how do I go about doing it?


Thank you in advance!
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6 years 4 months ago #160183 by Joffm
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Hello Ilana,

that's easy.
Provide 5 textboxes, and open three and after the third is filled open the fourth, ...

Set the relevance of fourth box to "!is_empty(Q1_SQ003)"
and the relevance of fifth box to "!is_empty(Q1_SQ004)"







Of course you cannot avoid people entering in the first box "abc, def, rgh, zui, tre"

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6 years 4 months ago #160202 by IlanaWilken
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Thank you so much, this really helped!

I have a follow-up question now. I would like to make the question mandatory, but still allow the respondent to only enter three words, should they wish to do so. Would that be possible?

Thank you again.
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6 years 4 months ago - 6 years 4 months ago #160206 by Joffm
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Hello, Ilana,
do not set the question to "mandatory".

Force them to enter at least three words by setting one of these two proposals (which both are obvious):

1. Advanced settings / minimum answers: 3

2. Advanced settings / question validation equation: (!is_empty(tb_SQ001) AND !is_empty(tb_SQ002) AND !is_empty(tb_SQ003))
Additionally you can set your own "question validation tip", e.g. "Please enter at least three words".

So use what you like best.

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Joffm

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6 years 4 months ago #160208 by IlanaWilken
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Thank you so much once again. You really saved me hours of figuring it out.

Have a good day!
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