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Hi all. Newbie here! I am building a data collection form where I need the last 3 years addresses. I can set logic to only ask for the previous address if they have been at the current address after a set date that I can enter in Typeform. 

 

 

When the form goes live, does the system up this ‘before’ date, or will it always be set at the date above?

 

Thank you.

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Hi @Peter B Thanks for popping by the community! This is a great question. The date will always remain the date that you enter in the logic jump, so this shouldn’t change unless you manually change it. :grinning: Let us know if you have any other questions!

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Liz
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Hi @Peter B Thanks for popping by the community! This is a great question. The date will always remain the date that you enter in the logic jump, so this shouldn’t change unless you manually change it. :grinning: Let us know if you have any other questions!


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  • May 18, 2021

Thanks for your reply Liz. Is there a function or some way of having this date in the login jump updated? So, when a client completes the form, they only have to add a previous address if they have been there for less than 3 years? The only other way I can see would be to manually change these dates on a monthly basis, which will be time-consuming and easy to make an error.


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  • May 18, 2021

Another idea that I have is to state that the client has been at Address A for say 10 months, and then address B for 20 months. Can I set logic to add these 2 numbers together? So that if A&B is less than 36 months, go to another previous address, but if A&B equals 36 or more, then continue to the next question.

I hope I have made myself clear!


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@Peter B - from another user 

yes … you can create a variable, say v_total_months, and add the number of months from q1 (address A) in a logic rule, then evaluate the minimum total needed ie if v_total_months less than 36 go to q2. afte q2 add q2 answer to v_total_months, evaluate if v_total_months less than 36 go to q3… 

in both cases have the logic rule for if v_total_months gte 36, then go to q4… 

easy peasy??

 

des


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Thanks Des. I've no idea what you are talkjng about but will try to get to grips with it tomorrow! I've only just started using Typeform so everything is very new to me. 

 

Thanks once again. By the way, I don't suppose you know if you can get the date to auto update daily as per my previous post?


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@Peter B - lol.. i understand and appreciate your confusion.. NO you can’t do the auto-update as per your earlier post, unfortunately. 

I will try to get a couple of screen shots posted later today to give you a better idea of what i was saying.. 

cheers

des


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I’m wondering if you can help me again! 

As I have stated I am building an application form, which might have either one or two applicants. So, I need to build 2 separate branches for all questions and then use Logic to determine which branches to take (I assume this is right!).

Is it possible to copy an entire section of questions rather than just one at a time? For example, there may be 20 questions on income, so can I have this as a section and copy the whole section of questions across in the same order - so questions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 copied as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 rather than, if I copy individually, 1,1, 2,2 3,3 and so on.

I hope this makes sense!

 


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@Peter B - if you create the section of questions as a question group, you can duplicate the question group with a single click. 

des


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Thank you sir!


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