Upload a list of questions to my form from excel or any other text file

  • federmora
    Asked on November 3, 2016 at 5:28 AM

    I have a list of 90 questions that all require a textarea for the answer. Can I upload them or copy and paste them to create my form?

  • Charlie
    Replied on November 3, 2016 at 9:04 AM

    Hi,

    I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I am correctly understanding your concern. Would you like to import an excel file with questions to JotForm? Currently, there's no app that does that, there was one previously but it is not anymore available, but that one simply creates the form from the imported spreadsheet. 

    It would still be best to manually just drag and drop the fields in the form builder to add a text area field for your questions. It would be quite impossible to import questions and make sure that they will use a text area field.

    Here's a quick way on how to do this, simply drag and drop the field you want to use:

    Upload a list of questions to my form from excel or any other text file Image 1 Screenshot 30

    Then if you want to duplicate, you can see in the options of the field "Manage Multiple Fields", here you can simply duplicate the fields you want:

    Upload a list of questions to my form from excel or any other text file Image 2 Screenshot 41

    Here's a guide specific to that one: https://www.jotform.com/help/242-How-to-Manage-Multiple-Fields 

    Let us know if that helps.

  • federmora
    Replied on November 5, 2016 at 5:31 AM

    Thank you. This is useful information! Yes because we have several lists of questions that go to different forms, we did not want to copy and paste them all, one by one, in the forms. But I understand from your message there there is no way around it, correct? As if I have 90 questions I would have to copy and paste 90 times, one question at a time.

  • John_Benson
    Replied on November 5, 2016 at 1:58 PM

    Yes, that is correct. You have to manually enter the questions to the form field labels. We don't have an app that will import questions from external source.

    Thank you for understanding.