My specific question is how to set up Google forms to allow a two-part answer. For example, which of the following books have you read and how many days did it take you? So you would have many book titles and if you clicked any of them, another field would pop up and allow you to enter the # of days it took to read. This will save so much more time than asking someone to enter in every book and then a follow-up question of how many days.
Google-forms – How to include multiple fields for each answer (two-part answer) choice
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You'll need to create pages in your Google Form as well as relevant multiple choice questions to take you between these pages.
For each page you set up, they will correspond with a multiple choice selection.
Add a question type of multiple choice
- You will see "Go to page based on answer" appear as a checkbox next to it. Click that.
The following warning appears:
Note: "go to page" questions work only on forms with multiple pages. Choose "page break" from the Add Item menu to add additional pages.
- You will see "Go to page based on answer" appear as a checkbox next to it. Click that.
For each of the answer choices you'll see a "Continue to next page" drop down selection.
- What they select here will determine if they skip a page and move right onto the next relevant section or continue as part of the normal flow.
To skip pages, look at the bottom of each page break section for the After page X: Continue to next page selection.
- Choose accordingly and you can have the respondent not have to go through questions only those that selected a certain answer previously needed to.
Here's an example of what you might set up:
+ Bowel movements
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| X : Y : Z
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+ Night terrors
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| {Y & Z answers from Bowel movements; Continue on to A Brunch to Remember}
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+ Morning regrets
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| {Only show to X answers from Bowel movements}
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+ A Brunch to Remember
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If you selected X in the Bowel Movements section, you jump straight to Morning Regrets. Other answers will continue on to Night Terrors. Those that fill out Night Terrors do not need to answer any from the Morning Regrets page and will then continue on to A Brunch to Remember.
You are right, Google Forms only allow to specify one condition in the "Go to section".
One alternative is to use several forms instead of only one. This way you could use the onSubmmit event to trigger a script that manage the question flow in order to apply complex rules.
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Best Answer
Currently there is no real way to do this. The only thing I could suggest is a list of check boxes with numeric input fields correlating with each box, with the hope that the user won't accidentally or purposefully enter bad data into the numeric fields corresponding to book he didn't read.
If you are making this for your own, self-hosted sited. I'd look into something like RS Forms Pro, which makes creating forms and manipulating responses much faster and easier.