How to change dropdown options without breaking logic

  • 28 December 2021
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Have you ever wanted to change something in a dropdown list and seen this?

The good news is there’s an easy way to change your dropdown options without breaking your logic rules.

Try this:

  1. Change your “Dropdown” question type into a “Multiple Choice” question type
  2. Make the text changes you want or reorder the list (doing so preserves the logic)
  3. Convert back into a “Dropdown” question type

This is useful if:

  • You have complex logic running behind each dropdown option
  • If you want to translate a form containing a dropdown question

I hope this helps someone!


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Hi @DavidD Thanks for sharing this! I just gave this a shot and it worked for me. :grinning: Granted, I only had three options in my dropdown. How many logics/options did you have in yours? (Out of curiosity)

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@Liz I was translating all the countries in the world, so a list of over 250 – each with logic to replace a Text Variable with that country’s 2 letter code.

Don’t ask me why it works but it does!

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Holy. Well, thank goodness you found this workaround. That would be a lot to re-type, @DavidD !

The only thing to note is that if the form has already collected responses, changing the question type will delete those responses. You can always duplicate the form though to prevent that, thankfully. 

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