"Tick n boxes" poll question option

[cesy]

Title:
"Tick n boxes" poll question option

Area:
polls

Summary:
Have poll option to force "tick your top three" and similar.

Description:
Let poll creators make questions that allow a creator-defined number of options to be selected, instead of the current limit-to-one-or-don’t-limit-at-all options. This would ideally include the ability to require a maximum number of answers, a minimum number of answers, or a fixed number of answers (e.g., no more than three, at least three, exactly three).

(Original LJ Suggestion: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/883830.html)

Poll #1109 "Tick n boxes" poll question option

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Should be implemented as-is.
29 (65.9%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (11.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (4.5%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (15.9%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Comments

[cheyinka]

I wouldn't mind "at most, three" (or two or seven or whatever) instead of the current "at most, one" or "at most, all of them", but I'm not sure about requiring a certain number to be selected.

[katieastrophe]

I think three was suggested as a hypothetical limit:

"Let poll creators make questions that allow a creator-defined number of options to be selected"

[cheyinka]

I was using "three" hypothetically, too - I'm good with "you may select at most [the creator-defined number] options", but I'm not sure about "you must select at least [the creator-defined number] options", or "you must select exactly [the creator-defined number] options". From the suggestion: This would ideally include the ability to require a maximum number of answers, a minimum number of answers, or a fixed number of answers (e.g., no more than three, at least three, exactly three).

[kerravonsen]

Oh yes, this would be very helpful.

[zvi]

I don't think HTML provides for a method of doing this, and so we would have to introduce Javascript or some other scripting language into polls to make this work. Bad idea. :(

[afuna]

Hmm, we could do it with an error message on form submission, maybe? "Question #9 requires at least x / exactly x / at most x answers. Your responses have not been changed. Please correct your etc and try again".

[zvi]

As long as we captured the already entered answers and sent them back to the poll with that pre-filled in, that would be very good!

[cesy]

Yes, this sounds like the best solution to me.

[existence]

+1

[cheyinka]

The "Question #9 requires at least four answers" thing would annoy me, and so I probably just wouldn't fill out polls that required minimum or exact numbers of answers, but this is a decent way to go about implementing the idea.

[triadruid]

This is the only reason I'm against this idea.

[sophie]

If this was done strictly, it would break the functionality of letting users skip questions (which they can do now simply by not selecting a choice - which works even with radio button questions). Maybe make it work so that it only counts them only if there were choices made in the first place?