Choice

Pick one or several from a list you write: a dropdown, radio buttons or checkboxes.

Stores: an answer. Can go: the form page, inside a panel, inside columns, as a table column. Field key prefix: field.

How it looks

The first picture is the question’s settings panel in the builder. The second is the question as the person filling in the form sees it.

Question settings for the Choice question

The Choice question as the person filling the form sees it

Options

Option	What it does	Kind	Default
Question label	The text the responder sees. On a page break it is the page title, on a panel the heading, on a button its text, on a consent its statement. Also available on a table column.	Text	Blank
Help text	A line of guidance under the question. On a page break it is the page description.	Long text	Blank
Required	The responder must answer before they can continue. Also available on a table column.	On or off	Off
Field key	The name expressions use: answers.<key>. Letters, numbers and underscore, not starting with a digit, unique in the form. Also available on a table column.	Text
Save answer to field	A custom field on the destination share that the answer is saved to on each submission file, so it can be searched and filtered. Also available on a table column.	A choice
When this answer changes	Actions that set, toggle or clear form variables when the answer changes. On a button they run on click.	Actions	None
Choice style	Dropdown and radio buttons take one answer; checkboxes take many. Stored as the display and multiple settings of the question. Choices: Dropdown (one), Radio buttons (one), Checkboxes (many).	A choice	Dropdown (one)
Options	The list of choices: a label the person sees and a value that is stored. Also available on a table column.	A list
Use the field’s allowed values	Shown when the question saves to a custom field that has allowed values. The options are then that field’s current allowed values on the form’s destination share, read each time the form opens, and the question’s own options are not used. If the field loses its list, or the question stops saving to it, the question’s own options apply again.	On or off	Off
Allow more than one	More than one can be picked. On a choice it is set by the choice style.	On or off	Off

Logic and validation

Each of these takes an expression, written by hand or with the logic builder.

Setting	What it does
Show this question when	Shows the question only while the expression is true.
Required when	Makes the question required only while the expression is true.
Valid when	Refuses the answer unless the expression is true.
Computed value (read-only)	A value worked out by the server from other answers; whatever is submitted is ignored.
Default value (editable)	Pre-fills the question; the responder can change it.