So I have a user with a survey with 2 questions that require the user to choose from a country list . the codes are G06Q12 and G06Q13 in the "yourself" group

I have tried to upload the countries in the answeroptions, but everytime I save, only a limited set is added (up to the code CT).

I've tried to define a labelset which contains these values, but when i import this labelset the same problem arises.

Does a dropdownlist have a limit on the amount of possible answers? should my user use a different questiontype?

Any advice is appreciated


version is 4.1.18+200416

Seems to be a bug.

I can insert up to St. Helena (220 countries)


So you may decide:
Use the official country list for nationality.
Nobody has a nationality of "Canarian islands".

Residence? If you really want to use this all, you may split the question into some.
First question: Region?
Second-... question: Countries of this region (displayed by relevance equation)


Therefore we say: 4.x. still not for production, only to test.
Use 3.22. LTS

Joffm

Usually this is caused by a max_vars setting in PHP that is too low.

I still think, it is a bug.

On the same machine (same max_vars) there is no problem to include this amount of countries in 3.22.

And I didn't mention one strange thing.

If I enter some items by quick-add, and then ADD some more, these last appear in reversed order.


But there is more
The drop-down shows this


and now the answer options appear like this

Did you try it in the other version also with the assessment mode on?

Because when you include the question code, the assessment value and the actual answer option, you have 3x as many variables to transfer as when you only transfer the answer option (without the question code and without the assessment value), this can make a huge difference when it comes to max_vars.

But if this was done the same way in 3.22 and in 4.x on the same machine with the same max_vars, then either 4.x transmits more vars (totally possible, because the database structure has changed) or it is a bug, just as you suspect.

Is there any news on tis one ?
I have the same problem with 4.2.1
want to add all the postcodes of Belgium, but this is way too many, it gives a red error rectangle without any information.

Hi,
I am sure you don't want to enter only the postcodes into the dropdown.
If so, you have to know the postcode to find it. In this case you can enter it into a textfield.

But in my opinion instead of entering all postcodes in a dropdown you may use a autocomplete with the postcodes in a csv-file.

Here an example with about 8000 German postcodes and cities.
www.limesurvey.org/forum/german-forum/12...agen-anzeigen#194696

Joffm

Tx, this indeed was a very good solution, even in V4

Hi,

Have there been any updates on how to display a large list (country names in my case) in the dropdown menu? I am having the same problem with LimeSurvey 4.2.

Thanks

Did you try the autocomplete solution as suggested?