Let your participants comment or add 'other' option in multiple choice or rating poll

  • 24 August 2020
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When you want to give your participants the option to add their own response to a poll, you can combine a Multiple choice or a Rating poll and Open text poll using our Survey function.

 

Available in our Engage plan and higher.

 

To add "other" option to Multiple choice or Rating poll. Here’s an example for multiple choice:

  1. Create a multiple-choice poll
  2. Name the last option e.g. as Other
  3. Click Create survey
  4. Create Open text poll - name it as Other (Please specify)
  5. Activate the survey

     
    Adding “other” option via survey

     

This is how it looks for your participants:

 

Participant view



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What is the limit of characters for answers in open text polls?

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Hi @Clizen 

 

The limit is 10 000 characters. Hopefully, that can be enough. :) 

 

Best wishes,

Adam

hi so the ‘Others’ option is a workaround, and not a automatic dropdown of empty ‘text field’ if and only if ‘Others’ option is selected...

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Hey @CPBC Ops ,

Thanks for commenting! Could you explain a bit more about what your preferred flow would look like? This would help us understand your comment a bit more and to submit this as feedback.

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Hey @CPBC Ops ,

Thanks for commenting! Could you explain a bit more about what your preferred flow would look like? This would help us understand your comment a bit more and to submit this as feedback.

Best,

hi, thanks for the reply. I presume when someone select “Others” option, then a new text field will appear, like it is in regular survey form (e.g google form). If “others” option is not selected, then it will not be shown.

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Hey @CPBC Ops ,

Thank you for explaining! This is not a feature supported in Slido at this time but will be submitted for future consideration. 

Let us know if you have any other questions!

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@Carly from Slido - this limitation is a significant one for our Enterprise account’s needs. Is there a timeframe that Slido intends to make this improvement please?

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Hey @Stavros ,

This feature is not currently on our roadmap but as a workaround you could create a Survey, ask the Multiple Choice Poll and then below that, have an Open text poll to fulfill the “Other" drop down option if they wouldnt like to choose any of the other options there.

Let us know if this helps!

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Thanks for the response @Carly from Slido. Unfortunately that is a poor workaround as it hinders analysis and is making polls unnecessarily longer. Could you please relay the message to the team that it would be a very useful improvement to implement (and one that all online survey tools have as a default)?

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Hey @Stavros ,

Apologies as it is not ideal for you. All your suggestions and feature requests to our Community are submitted as feature requests and logged for our teams to see and consider when making improvements.

Feel free to follow the Product News for any updates in the future as well as checking back for updates if we have put this on our roadmap.

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