acrall wrote: This question will be a dropdown with the user able to select a number from 1 to 5. Depending on how they answer this first question, the next question will create an equal number of dropdown menus equal to the number they select.
I'm still trying to figure out, how respondents indicate what kind of activity they answer in question 2.
From my understanding so far, I would create a survey in Group by Group mode.
Group 1: Question 1 How many activities? 1-5
Then I would display 1-5 text boxes to let the respondent enter the activities.
Perhaps a different kind of question type is more suitable in the end. But that depends on the whole questionnaire.
Group 2: We have a maximum of 5 second level questions. I would put all second level questions in one group and use conditions or relevance to show and hide depending on the amount of activities.
Depending on how many questions are on the third level I might would considering merging second and third level questions.
You can use conditions on questions, but you can also use relevance equations on questions and question-groups.
The next step would be, that you create a draft survey and attach a LSS export here in forum.
That way you would get better feedback. If you don't want to show the real questions, just create some dummies.