Can you add a free text option/choice when adding a list using the Multiple choice, Multiple Answer

Yes. If you still want to use "drop down" style multiple choice, then the open-ended feedback box will need to be on the next page. If you use just radio button selection (preferable for mobile users), then you can apply in-page display logic that will populate the text-box whenever "other" is selected. Also, if you select the "other" option (small blue error under choices), you should have an option to "allow text entry". This will also achieve your goal.

Perfect thank you very much. Kathy

Hello, I want to use the drop down style response but still keep a free text option for one answer. I'm struggling to see a way to do this in the page, without adding another question underneath, can anyone help? Thanks Natalie

Hi @NatalieH In drop-down you can't add text box, for this you can only trigger text box question.

Hello @NatalieH , @bansalpeeyush29 is right, there is no such scope. One thing you can do is set a embedded data for this question. 1. If a text option is selected then display a text question using display logic and set embedded data value as the answer of the text question. 2. If the text option is not selected, then set the answer of the dropdown question as the embedded data value. By doing this, you need to only refer the embedded data as the answer of the dropdown question in data and analysis. Hope you get the idea.

Thanks for your responses, I've added a text option question using display logic, however I'm not sure how to set the answer as embedded data? Would you kindly screen shot this for me or point me in the direction of an online guide? Thank you Natalie

Hi Shashi, Just wanted to add there is no need to set embedded data here as for data analysis purpose it is always best to refer text variable. Here in this there will be two variables one coming from drop down and other open end variable. Like in single select questions if we have other specify data for other is stored in another variable. Like q1_97_other

> @NatalieH said: > Thanks for your responses, I've added a text option question using display logic, however I'm not sure how to set the answer as embedded data? Would you kindly screen shot this for me or point me in the direction of an online guide? > > Thank you > Natalie Please visit this page(specially piped text section of the page) Implementation(screenshot) 1. Below image shows the question and display logic for the open text question. ! 2. Now in the survey flow, below your question block add new element branch and add condition as- if text option is selected for drop down question and below that add embedded data and set the value as value of open text question as shown in the image below: ! 3. Next, add another branch after the previous branch and give condition as- if text option is NOT selected in drop down question and below that below that add embedded data(with same name as above) and set the value as value of selected choices of the drop down question as shown in the image below:! 4. Here is the final image of the survey flow! 5. Now during analysis, you need to see only the embedded data for this question(in this case i.e image -"DropDownAnswer") Hope you will get the implementation.

> @bansalpeeyush29 said: > Hi Shashi, > > Just wanted to add there is no need to set embedded data here as for data analysis purpose it is always best to refer text variable. > Here in this there will be two variables one coming from drop down and other open end variable. > > Like in single select questions if we have other specify data for other is stored in another variable. Like q1_97_other Thanks for this information. That means NatalieH concern is only about the new question in survey because according to above info any how new variable is created in data analysis.

Thank you both very much for your help and for clarifying the data analysis, I'm still learning!