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Deciding a competition winner

  • January 3, 2026
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I am trying to allow the public to decide a competition winner. However, I can’t find a way to do it using the system that our committee wants to use….

To explain

  1. Question one asks the voter to select one option from 4 possible options.
  2. Question two asks the voter to select one option from 4 possible options.
  3. Question three asks the voter to select one option from 4 possible options.
  4. Question four asks the voter to select one option from 4 possible options.
  5. Question five asks the voter to select one option from 4 possible options.

All good so far… I can do this, and at the end of these 5 question I have 5 answers

What I now want to do is to ask the voter to take the responses from those 5 questions, and rank them in order of preference…. I can’t see a way to dynamically generate answer options, by taking their answers from previous questions. Is this possible in type form? Or am I going to need to jump over to proper survey platforms?

Best answer by joshuaf

Hi there! 

I have some experience with this on a past form I did. With information recall, in my experience, I haven’t been able to use it to modify the answers of a ranking or multi-select dynamically. This might be a good feature request.

What I have done in the past is used the question title and description's ability to recall information. So, I setup a multi-question page, Recalled choices from previous by saying “you selected @---” and then asked them to rank preference using a drop down. 

Not a perfect work around as users can rate something with the same rating. Setting it up this way can also make using the resulting data a little hard to work with, depending on what information you need to draw from the rankings, usually I have added unique tags to the questions titles/descriptions themselves as indicators when processing data of what to look for or at. In my case it worked okay, but it certainly was a little bit of a work around. 

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      joshuaf
      • joshuaf
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      • January 6, 2026

      Hi there! 

      I have some experience with this on a past form I did. With information recall, in my experience, I haven’t been able to use it to modify the answers of a ranking or multi-select dynamically. This might be a good feature request.

      What I have done in the past is used the question title and description's ability to recall information. So, I setup a multi-question page, Recalled choices from previous by saying “you selected @---” and then asked them to rank preference using a drop down. 

      Not a perfect work around as users can rate something with the same rating. Setting it up this way can also make using the resulting data a little hard to work with, depending on what information you need to draw from the rankings, usually I have added unique tags to the questions titles/descriptions themselves as indicators when processing data of what to look for or at. In my case it worked okay, but it certainly was a little bit of a work around. 

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        • Grace
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        • January 16, 2026

        Hi ​@Dementia_Researcher happy Friday!

        Did you have a chance to look at ​@joshuaf’s suggestions yet? Let us know if you have more questions 😊

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