Conditional Dropdown issues/question

  • vacek
    Asked on November 10, 2016 at 9:03 AM

    I have 2 drop downs in my form:

     

    Choose Day: (Tuesday,Wednesday)

    Choose Timeslot: (9am-11am,11am-1pm,1pm-3pm,3pm-5pm)

     

    What I need to accomplish is this. If Tuesday is chosen, I would like to be able to hide one of the timesslot options ... not all of them.

     

    Basically I have 25 of each time slot available for each day, but as they fill up as people register, I would like a way to add conditions to the form so that once i have 25 for a particular day/timeslot ... I can hide the option from others registering.

    Any way to accomplish this ?

  • emily
    Replied on November 10, 2016 at 9:41 AM

    I can suggest you to use Gift Registry widget instead of using drop downs. 

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

    I created a demo form showing how you can use Gift Registry widget to solve your problem.

    Here is the URL of the form. You can clone it and inspect it in your account. 

    https://form.jotform.com/63143407012947

    Here is the userguide on cloning an existing form.

    https://www.jotform.com/help/42-How-to-Clone-an-Existing-Form-from-a-URL 

    You can inspect the screenshots of the form I created.

    I added a drop down that include days and two widgets for the time slots. Once users select one of the time slots in the widget, that slot will not be available for further selections. For example if I select 9am-11am slot, the widget will show 0 left for that item and another user will not be able to select it again.

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 1 Screenshot 60

    You can add more slots into the widget. 

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 2 Screenshot 71

    Additionally, I created two conditions. If Wednesday is selected, Gift1 will be hidden and Gift2 will be shown. If Tuesday is selected, Gift2 will be hidden and Gift1 will be shown. 

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 3 Screenshot 82

    You can see the overall conditions down below.

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 4 Screenshot 93

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 5 Screenshot 104

     

    I hope this solution works for you. If your problem still continues, let us know.

  • vacek
    Replied on November 10, 2016 at 9:46 AM

    Thanks so much for the answer.

    I think I also just figured out another solution using conditions:

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 1 Screenshot 20

    This way, they are not able to submit the form.

    It will require me to create a rule each time a timeslot is full ... but I think it might be a simplier solutions for my needs.

    I will however give yours a try in my cloned form and see if I might be able to make it work also.

    Thanks !!

  • vacek
    Replied on November 10, 2016 at 10:56 AM

    even a little more eloquent:

    Conditional Dropdown issues/question Image 1 Screenshot 20

    The head field I show says: "This Day/Timeslot is full. Please choose another"

    When another time slot or day is chosen, that head field disappears and the submit button shows back up.

    This works perfectly for now.