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I see ​@john.desborough has addressed this multiple times over the years, tagging ​@Liz, and I appreciate that. I was unable to dig up the proper comment on the sticky product dev suggestions post to add my support.

Seems this has been requested many times over the years - I find myself needing to have theatre patrons select top 5 from a list of 12 productions, then rank those five 1-5. Having them rank a list of 12 productions seems cumbersome.

If anyone has suggestions on a workable solution for this need, I would appreciate it very much. Until then, my support is behind populating rank-able answer choices from previous questions.

Best answer by john.desborough

@Liz ​@kapeesh  - nope, no handy guides… without the ability to prepopulate a question with either the answers or variables, as the ‘selection labels’ this won’t really work

now i don’t know if you could do this with a webhook and the API to create the form on the fly.. not something that is in my technical wheelhouse…

 

des

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Liz
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  • March 18, 2025

Tagging ​@john.desborough to see if he has any handy guides for this!


john.desborough
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@Liz ​@kapeesh  - nope, no handy guides… without the ability to prepopulate a question with either the answers or variables, as the ‘selection labels’ this won’t really work

now i don’t know if you could do this with a webhook and the API to create the form on the fly.. not something that is in my technical wheelhouse…

 

des


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  • April 7, 2025

I wonder if ​@picsoung maybe has any ideas on this...


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Hey folks

Unfortunately, I don’t have a clever answer.

Unless you try to map all the combinations of 5 in a list of 12, and if I remember maths correctly, that would be 792 possibilities 😅

I would say one way to ease the process is to have the most like 5 favorite shows listed among the first 5 of the 12, making it easier for the user.

They would arrange the top 5 and leave the rest alone.

Additionally, when analyzing the responses, you can verify that the top 5 in the ranking choices match the 5 selected earlier. Unfortunately, you can do that test while people answer the form.

I hope it makes sense,
Best,
Nicolas


Grace
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Thanks for checking ​@picsoung 🙏


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