DropDown widget with limited available items.

I am creating a form for people to sign up for an activity at different times. Each time slot can only allow 3 people to sign up. Is there a way to do this with a drop down? Right now my form is a mile long.

Unfortunately, it cannot be done with the dropdown.

You can limit the number of items/tickets/slots available on your form by using our widgets, such as our Inventory widget:

http://widgets.jotform.com/app/inventory

We also have other widgets that provide this capability, and these widgets are Ticket Purchases and Gift Registry:

http://widgets.jotform.com/widget/ticket_purchases

http://widgets.jotform.com/widget/gift_registry

You can take a look at the following guide on How to Add a Widget to your Form. Please try one of the above widgets, and see if it is indeed working to your liking.

Hope this helps!

Thanks.

None of those solve my problem of having a form that is now a mile long. I need people to sign up for time slots. It really needs to be a drop down. No one wants to go through a form this long.

You can categorize the time slots in 2 or 3 separate appointment widgets.

You can add 2 or 3 appointment slot widgets and in a dropdown define the time range and conditionally show the appointment slots widget.

Like for 08:00 to 10:00 time range that is in a dropdown, you define these time range in a single appointment slot. For another time range from 10:00 to 12:00 define another time slot widget. Then conditionally if 08:00 to 10:00 range selected show the appointment widget with these values only and respectively.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

Thanks.

I am not sure I understand. Can you give me an example?

If I understood you correctly, you would like to display all your available options:

In a single Dropdown field, that still does the same job(limiting each item up to 3 selections), because the list is getting long.Something like this:

I have searched in our available widgets, and unfortunately, we do not have such a thing. I have sent a feature request to our back-end team to create such a widget, however, there will not be an estimated time-frame for a solution. If it gets implemented in the future, you will be notified via this thread.

Meanwhile, I believe that the workaround my colleague had in mind, to avoid displaying a very long list, was to create conditions to show just a batch of available slots depending on the time frame selected. 

Example:

1) Separate your slots is three

2) And have a field, such a regular Dropdown, where the user could select the range of time he is interested in:

3) Finally, create conditions to show them based on the selection made in the range field: https://www.jotform.com/help/316-How-to-Show-or-Hide-Fields-Base-on-User-s-Answer 

Here is my demo for you to test: https://form.jotform.com/82356195548972 

You may clone the form if you want to: https://www.jotform.com/help/42-How-to-Clone-an-Existing-Form-from-a-URL 

Hope this helps.

Thank you for the workaround ideas.