Is it possible to set the default for all new questions to be required? It’s tedious (and error-prone) to have to go through every question and click it. I appreciate that it’s not recommended, but the sort of recruitment surveys that we do are useless if they haven’t answered every question, so I’d rather be able to apply that as the default and turn off if needed.
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Make questions required by default
Best answer by jeremielp
I am not sure that you can do it with the user interface, but if not, you can do that with the Create API.
1. Retrieve forms with
GET https://api.typeform.com/formshttps://www.typeform.com/developers/create/reference/retrieve-form/
2. Retrieve each form with
GET https://api.typeform.com/forms/{form_id}https://www.typeform.com/developers/create/reference/retrieve-form/
3. Check if one field is not required in the form
4. Update the form to mark the field as required with
PUT https://api.typeform.com/forms/{form_id}https://www.typeform.com/developers/create/reference/update-form/
.
I am not sure that you can do it with the user interface, but if not, you can do that with the Create API.
1. Retrieve forms with
GET https://api.typeform.com/formshttps://www.typeform.com/developers/create/reference/retrieve-form/
2. Retrieve each form with
GET https://api.typeform.com/forms/{form_id}https://www.typeform.com/developers/create/reference/retrieve-form/
3. Check if one field is not required in the form
4. Update the form to mark the field as required with
PUT https://api.typeform.com/forms/{form_id}https://www.typeform.com/developers/create/reference/update-form/
.
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Thanks, but this is after the event isn’t it? It’s also a bit of a sledgehammer to crack a nut - it will set all to required, so one still has to go through the whole script and update any that aren’t.
ChrisAtCentral wrote:
Thanks, but this is after the event isn’t it?
No this is not after an event. This is a script that you would have to trigger on a regular basis using a CRON for example. I agree that it is not the easiest solution, but that is the only one that allows you to automate that.
I’d like to see this feature too, we need all fields completing on our surveys (we pay an incentive per completion so we need them to be fully completed to justify it)nand it’s too easy to miss if you have to switch on one-by-one. Particularly annoying if you use the import questions feature to save time, but then have to painstakingly go through to switch required on for each question.
Very surprised to see Typeform themselves haven’t picked up on this thread to consider it as a future feature.
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