Repeat a set of questions in one form?

Hi Wesley,

I'd suggest exporting your form from the GF Import/Export page. After exporting your form, open up the export XML file and you'll see a <fields> node. Inside this node you'll see nodes for each of your forms fields. You can copy your question fields (including the conditional logic!) much more quickly this way.

After you're done editing your form XML file, you can import the form back into GF. Make sure you keep a backup of your original export file just in case you need it. :)

Update: One other thing to note; you'll want to make sure you update the field IDs and corresponding conditional logic IDs to keep everything in order. Just increment the field IDs by one for each new field and then change the conditional logic rule field id to the corresponding field that it should be checked against. This will make a lot more sense after you've looked through the XML file. :)

Finally digging into this, and have one follow-up question: do the field IDs need to be continuous through the whole form? Or can I leave gaps in the numbering?

I ask because it'd feel safer for me to number all of the IDs I'm manually adding beginning with some arbitrary number, say 500, so I can quickly tell which ones I've added manually if something is broken (everything >500 would be from the original exported version, and everything <500 would be my manual additions). To clarify, this would leave a gap in the field ID numbering series, since I currently have only about 150 field IDs.

Thanks.

Thanks, Carl. I'll find my largest number and go from there. I'm assuming it doesn't matter if they're not in order on the form itself, right? Because this cutting and pasting is going to create a mess of the original order. Please tell me I don't need to renumber all of them. . . .

One more note: as I look through the XML I exported, it appears that I already have gaps in my Field IDs numbering from where I've deleted earlier questions (via the web-interface) when my client indicated certain questions weren't necessary. Is this likely to cause me pain later? The form appears to be working as is, but I'd rather spend the time renumbering everything now if I'll ever need to do it later as it's only going to get more difficult as I continue to refine and expand the form.

Thanks.

Thanks for the prompt reply: buying my dev license was a smarter move than I expected.

Unless you strongly object, I'm going to try leaving some big gaps so that I can group my questions easily (I'm thinking one block of related questions will be the 200 series, the next 300 series, etc): will report back if I have any problems. It's only a test site, so if it goes down, well, it goes down.

Thanks again. Brilliant plug in you've made.