Forms: Input Drop-Down list via csv file

[Stadtschreck]

I like to write my worktime with Form.
I need a list of around 50 vehicles in one Drop-Down-list and a second Drop-Down list with around 100 attachments for the vehicles.
Is there an other way of importing these list into the form?

Forms Vers.: 1.1.1
nextcloud: 17.0.2 via NextCloudPi
Odroid XU4 is in the moment the test-bench

[skjnldsv]

That is an interesting issue! I think we can improve indeed :)

@jancborchardt, what do you think about an option to do "bulk input" for multiple questions, would take new lines as separators :)
Seems like a nice easy optio that could easily help people!

[jancborchardt]

@skjnldsv just FYI this is very similar to Uploading a CSV file to quicly create a form #102

So I wouldn’t go any complicated "CSV import" route, but simply a power-user trick that if you paste a list of answer options with line breaks into an answer field, the fields following it will each be filled by one of the lines.

Do you know what I mean? So if the content of your clipboard looks like this:

Apple
Samsung
Lenovo

And you paste it into an answer type field of the multiple choice or checkboxes, it will fill multiple replies like so:

• Toshiba
• Apple
• Samsung
• Lenovo

[skjnldsv]

Yes, that is what I had in mind, but this isn't very discoverable, could we maybe make sure the users knows they can do that?

[jotoeri]

Hm, btw - imagine this form having a list of 50 & 100 options. Maybe a dropdown-list instead of just radiobuttons would be an interesting question-type somewhen again? ;)

[jancborchardt]

Yes, that is what I had in mind, but this isn't very discoverable, could we maybe make sure the users knows they can do that?

Yes, but let’s first start with small steps. Remember it’s a feature only for creation, and we don’t even know if it will be used by a lot of people. So first MVP as we also need to focus on other things, and then we can still see what we need to make it more obvious.

Hm, btw - imagine this form having a list of 50 & 100 options. Maybe a dropdown-list instead of just radiobuttons would be an interesting question-type somewhen again? ;)

Yup – want to open a new issue for that question type? :)

[Stadtschreck]

@jancborchardt I'm tried this with an enter/line-break separated list, it don't work.

[skjnldsv]

@Stadtschreck look on the right, this issue is marked as to develop, this is not implemented