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How do I know which Forms (question) ID belongs to which actual question?

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Dear All,

I have a Ms Form with several questions. I asked my respondents to specify their address, and I collect it through multiple questions/variables. When I created the form I haven't named all these fields (or, rather, I gave them only a subtitle, which also serves as an instruction to the questionnaire taker).

Ie., the address is being asked using three questions:

Question 1: {question title="What is your permanent address?"; subtitle="Zip code"}

Question 2: {question title=none; subtitle="Location"}

Question 3: {question title=none; subtitle="Street name, number"}

 

From the Form's side, it makes sense, as the questions appear below each other, and it is understood that they refer to the same thing (address input), if from nothing else, then from their subtitle:

Flow-question-attachment2-forum.JPG

 

I haven't really had a problem with this so far, but now when I am creating automation flows, I realized that the questions that do not have a title are appearing with a system-generated ID, and, on the top of it, they do not even appear in the same order as they are placed in the Form questionnaire, so there is no way to figure out (from its ID) which ID belongs to which question:

Flow-question-attachment-forum.JPG

 

Is there a way for me to check the ID of each question, so I can identify they better from the Flow's side?

 

Thank you in advance.

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    RobElliott Profile Picture
    10,319 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    It's a bad idea to not give your question a....question. Question 13 should be Telepules, then you don't need a subtitle. I never leave the question empty.

     

    Rob
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    on at

    Thanks Rob. I realized that I can edit my Form and give titles to the fields even when it's already running. My confusion came from the fact that this did not change immediately the name of the variables in the background, but I realized that it indeed changes after a few hours, or a day... So now all is fine. Thank you!

  • Guicontar Profile Picture
    13 on at

    Great question, but not really helpful answer. Im having a similar issue, where I have multiple "Observation" fields for each multiple choice question, but when it comes to Automate I can't really know which one corresponds to each multiple choice field. So i'm having to put numbers on the titles to know the sequence, which makes the form pretty ugly, since it already has the automatic form numeration.

  • GemmaW Profile Picture
    2 on at

    Did you ever find a better way of figuring this out? I have a branching form, and under each branch, it includes much of the same information (name, phone, email) as well as specific questions for that section. I'm having similar trouble figuring out which response goes with which branching section so that I can create appropriate emails to be sent!

     

    Or maybe I need to adjust the questions in the form as you did, create the email responses, and then readjust the form? I wonder if that would break the flow or would be ok...?

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