Help respondant find a select_multiple answer by typing their response

[Assist2.ma]

Hi,

I want to create a select_multiple question witha very large number of possible answers (names). It might be hard for respondants to find the answer so I’d like to give them the opportunity to type the name they want to select so that the matching answer appears. I don’t want to use a text question because respondants might answer typos.

Is there a functionality (maybe in appearances) that would allow me to do that? Thank you in advance for your help.

[hakan_cetinkaya]

Hi @Assist2.ma and welcome to the community!

You can use autocomplete in appearance to achieve that.

See this for more info:

Search Functionality

Hi @keerthi & @jseiden, Backing up with the response provided by @martijnr, I just tried using the autocomplete in the appearance and it seems to work finely with KoBoCollect application, ODK Collect application and the Enketo. If you are designing the form in XLSForm, you simply need to type autocomplete in the appearance column against the question. If you are using the KoBoToolbox Formbuilder Interface, in the question, click to the setting button > Appearance (Advanced): > other > (type…

[Assist2.ma]

Hi @hakan_cetinkaya thank you for your help, however it seems that the autocomplete appearance only works with select_one questions and not select_multiple

[wroos]

Can you try appearance = search, please?

[Assist2.ma]

doesn’t work either

[wroos]

Can you, please, share the related part/extract of your form, as XLSForm format?

[mohammedTaleb7]

@Assist2.ma

Hi @hakan_cetinkaya thank you for your help, however it seems that the autocomplete appearance only works with select_one questions and not select_multiple

[wroos]

Maybe the documentation can help you. The usage described is different. See, please, Question Types - ODK Docs. At least, for Collect it should work.

[Kal_Lam]

@mohammedTaleb7, @wroos, @hakan_cetinkaya