Multiple Choice Field

Summary

The Multiple Choice Field combines the functionality of the checkbox and radio button fields into one. The Selection option offers the flexibility to turn the Single Choice Field into a Multiple Choice field.

If your choice labels contain HTML or special characters such as ampersands, commas, hyphens or brackets/parentheses of any type, you MUST enable the show values feature and give each choice a unique value that does not contain any special characters. Failure to configure values could cause issues for features such as calculations, conditional logic, dynamic population, and validation.

Common Settings

This field uses only common field settings for the Appearance and Advanced settings. For a description of each of the common field settings, refer to this article. A description of the specialty settings that are particular to this field are listed below.

General Settings

Setting	Description
Choices	Add Choices to this field. You can mark each choice as checked by default by using the checkbox that appears to the left of each choice. Add a new choice by clicking the PLUS (+) icon and delete a choice by clicking the DELETE (-) icon.
Show Values	Allows you to specify a value for each choice. Choice values are not displayed to the user viewing the form but are accessible to administrators when viewing the entry.
Clear default choices	Allows you to clear all the choices set as default. This means that the field will not contain a default selection when a user visits the form.
Bulk Add / Predefined Choices	Allows you to select a category and customize the predefined choices or paste your own list to bulk add choices. See note 1.

Notes

1. See this article for more information on bulk loading choices.

Selections

Switch this option to allow the user to select multiple choices. Disabling this option after entries with multiple choices have been submitted will hide the values for those entries.

The available options are listed below.

Select One: The user can select one option only. Will display as radio buttons.

Select Multiple: The user can select any number of choices. Will display as checkboxes.

Select Exact Number: The user must select a specific number of choices. Will display as checkboxes.

Select a Range: The user can select a number of choices between the specified minimum and maximum number defined in the settings. Will display as checkboxes.

Enable “Other” choice

This option will present an “Other” choice option at the end of the defined list. It will also add a text box below it such that a user can input a custom answer.
Note: This setting is only available when the Number of selections is Single.

Enable “Select All” choice

Enable this option to add a control at the top of the field that will select all choices in the Multiple Choice Field.
Note: This setting is only available when the Number of selections is Unlimited or Range.

Appearance Settings

Choice Alignment

Display choices aligned vertically or horizontally.

Merge Tags

For more information on the use of merge tags, refer to these articles.

{Field Name:2.1:modifier}

Modifier	Description
:value	Outputs the value of the field instead of the normal choice text.
:currency	Converts the value to a currency value.
:price	Same as :currency.

Calculations

If you’re going to use this field type in a calculation formula, please check Number Formatting Rules in the Calculations doc page.