Many Option for Choice Question (Dropdown)

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Hello Benno,

I am creating a dropdown question to allow respondents to select their suburb. However, I have a very large list of suburbs, and the survey engine seems to limit the number of choices that can added to a single question (around 500).

Is there a recommended workaround for this limitation?

Thank you.

Arkar

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Arkar,
That’s a curly - one. I think the overarching question is - even if you had higher limits wouldn’t this be error prone and difficult for the respondent.

The problem you’ve reallly have is respondents putting in junk responses.

So a couple of suggestions.

  1. have a look at the autosuggest tutorial - see at page 5. this has much better user experience and guarantees they answer from the allowed set.

  1. Break the suburbs into logical groups (<500) first. say by state or region or even alphabetically.

  2. Apply directly to SurveyEngine support to lift this limit. support@surveyengine.com

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Hi Benno,

Thank you for your response. I think I figured it out. For future users who may face the similar problem, I used drop down (How To Create a Cascading Dropdown) and transfer the data using javascript from the source into the data item (similar to the mapping tutorial).

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Nice work and thanks for controbuting.