How to create custom responses in Forms

How to create custom responses in Forms


Custom Responses allow users to quickly populate information when interacting with a dropdown, single select or multiselect question fields.

Dropdown / Single Select / Multiselect - Custom Responses 

When inserting either a dropdown, single select or multiselect question in the form - users will notice a popup menu towards the top of the screen.
The Custom Responses menu - is a customisable range of pre-set responses that will allow users to quickly populate options into their questions.

Creating a pre-set - Using as Dropdown example

Insert a dropdown question into the form to trigger the "Custom Responses" popup screen - This menu allows users to create/edit/delete pre-set items.

Edit and Delete options are only available when a custom response exists

To begin creating the pre-set menu - Select the "Orange plus" icon on the right-hand side of the custom responses menu.



Populating Custom Responses 

1. Enter name for the first selection
2. Select a colour for each field / or delete the option
3. Click + Add another to insert an additional option to the question
4. Select Save to finalise the creation of your custom response



Example + Output

custom options

After clicking "Save" you can either:

1. Return to edit your custom responses
2. Delete the whole pre-set 
3. Select a pre-set from the custom response list

custom response list

3.1 After selecting a preset - close the custom responses menu by clicking on the cross icon

Close custom responses

Output: after selecting a pre-set response - this will populate the question with custom response

dropdown

Users can return to the popup menu by selecting the "Custom Responses" button

form response

Confirm the creation of the dropdown menu by selecting the "check" icon

Creating Dropdown

Output



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