Hi

I am having a few issues with the max answers for multiple choice. Am I able to have 3 multiple choice questions in a question group, and then have a max of X answers from the 3 total questions?

Below is an example:

Question Group 1 (only select a max of 2 from the 3 questions below)
Question 1
SubQuestion1 []
SubQuestion2 []
Question 2
SubQuestion1 []
SubQuestion2 []
Question 3
SubQuestion1 []
SubQuestion2 []

Thanks!

I don't think this is possible. If they are all on the same page, you might be able to check something via Javascript, but the maximum answer option is only for one question.

So Javascript is the only way?

I am trying to have an array from Question Group 1 with i) Important ii) Kind of important iii) Not Important as answers for statements. Then based on what they have answered from Question Group 1, Question Group 2 will show what statements were marked as Important, Kind of, Not, each in it's own question. Then you'll be able to select a max of 3 statements from the entire Question Group 2.

Sorry if that was difficult to follow.

Assuming the only multiple-choice questions in group 2 are those you want to count from, set up your survey to use JavaScript and place the following script in the source of one of the questions:

Awesome! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot!

You could also use javascript to insert question text/headers into a single questions answer list to give it the appearance of being multiple questions but you could use the max answers option in the advanced setting to limit how many they can select. Jquerys insertBefore for example.

This don't work with EM ? Whole question validation (for each or only one (the first for example).

count(self,that.question2,that.question3) < 3

Give it a try

I want to add a quick note.

If you do go with the javascript logic, unless you are using a template that replaces alerts (like a bootstrap one) you may want to find a different way to display the error message.

If someone triggers the alert more than once, on most browsers they will get the option to suppress the alerts for that page. If they do this, their browser will stop the alert from popping up and break your mandatory logic at the same time allowing them to move to the next question without answering properly.

To avoid this you can add a blank div or span somewhere in the template and instead of using the alert, use jquery .text("Please select at most three options..") to display the error when it doesn't pass and .text("") to clear it when it does. This way they won't get the chance to supress an alert and break your script.

It sucks when it comes time to look at your data and a few people found a way to break your logic.

This don't work with EM ? Whole question validation (for each or only one (the first for example).

count(self,that.question2,that.question3) < 3

Give it a try

You try it Denis - it's buggy as hell!

To avoid this you can add a blank div or span somewhere in the template

Yes, good point.

Hi!

I got a similar problem, but with more than one multiple choice questions, one with max 3 answers, other with max 2 answers, etc.

How can you modify the code to check for one specific question in the survey? I got stuck with it.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,
please do not answer to such an old thread.

What LS version? And is your problem really similar to the first post in this thread?

Here is a different approach:
Multiple question with headers.



and selecting more than 2 -> error


Works in 2.50-2.73 and 3.6x

The script to remove the checkboxes from the "header" options.
You see the "0", "4", "7" which refer to the position of the "header" subquestion , starting with "0"
some css to indent the options
I styled the headers in the subquestions like this (but up to you)
Regards
Joffm