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How to set minimum character in long text form?


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  • Navigating the Land
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  • September 24, 2024

Hi @Liz - We also really need the minimum character setting feature. It helps us weed out spam answers on our citizen engagement survey. We always get a few “asdpsf” responses and it would be lovely to not have to sort through those to get to the serious answers. Thanks! 


Liz
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  • September 25, 2024

Hi @Yfunaki I’ll add your vote to the request!


RicardoJ
  • Navigating the Land
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  • September 25, 2024

And this is such a simple, yet useful request! I can’t believe Typeform still doesn’t have this.  


  • Navigating the Land
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  • September 25, 2024

Especially because they already have a maximum option. I just don’t want my customers to write “kjvrbijebf” and be done. I want real, genuine feedback


  • Navigating the Land
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  • October 31, 2024

3 years later still nothing???


Liz
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  • October 31, 2024

Hi @thadcastle Thanks for stopping by! I know, it’s been a really long wait. Our product team has been working on the Typeform Growth features, which were highly request for an even longer time and much more complicated to build. However, if they do add this feature, I’ll post the news here!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • February 6, 2025

Any movement on this yet? It seems quite a simple duplication of the code for limiting characters. Is there somer reason you don’t want to add it?


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  • February 12, 2025

Hi ​@basicmammal I’m afraid not, but as always, if I have any updates, I’ll share them here!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • February 26, 2025

@Liz if they can set a max character limit, why is it taking so long for a min character limit? ;(

In a question where we ask for more feedback, I keep getting 4 word responses, instead of genuine, thoughtful feedback… this is very frustrating… can this please be done?


Liz
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  • February 28, 2025

Hi ​@asfff I can definitely add your vote to this! I’m afraid we haven’t added this feature yet as our product team is working on other features that have higher requests to them. However, as always, if we do add this, we’ll post in the community here!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • March 17, 2025

Also in need of this feature. Would help us reduce the huge amount of spam submissions. Additional settings to reduce spam would also be appreciated. But seems you’re a bit short on developers seeing as this thread is over 3y old.


Liz
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  • March 19, 2025

Hi ​@felixentu Thanks for stopping by! Do you mind sharing a bit more about how the minimum amount of characters would help reduce spam submissions? I’ll then share this use case and feedback to to the product team. 


  • Navigating the Land
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  • March 20, 2025

I have one question asking how many guests they are and if they have any other questions and have noticed that all spam respondents write “2” and then proceed to send in the form. Forcing them to write something more intelligent will either make it harder for bots to complete the form or make it even easier to detect bot-type answers.


Liz
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  • March 27, 2025

Hi ​@felixentu Oh, of course! That makes total sense. I’ll share this with our product team!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • April 2, 2025

I too am in need of this to avoid spam responses that burn through usage and subsequent zaps. Would really hope this gets done soon. 


Liz
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  • April 3, 2025

Adding your vote, ​@Waynster !


  • Navigating the Land
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  • April 3, 2025

To be more specific, I want character minimum to then build logic if minimal and ideally have an ai form a question based off the response “could you elaborate on (short-answer-subject) 

 

thanks 


Liz
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  • April 3, 2025

Thanks, ​@Waynster ! I’ll add that bit to the vote. 


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