Microsoft Forms – Make it easy to see that a question has branching logic

By Adam Cogan in Microsoft, Microsoft Forms 0 Comment

We run forms frequently and this morning we had a problem. There was a question with branching logic enabled and this caused a couple of issues:

  • It didn’t show the last few questions of the form that I expected to be there (so I thought that there was a bug)
  • When I checked the form by going into the editor, all the questions were there
  • I assumed that there was branching logic in the form but all the questions only had an option to “add branching” which I interpreted as there was no branching configured
Figure: I had to click through a lot of questions to work out that I had branching turned on for 1 question, which caused ½ my form to be invisible

Suggestion #1: Add an option to add a progress bar to the form so that people completing the form know that there may be more questions

Figure: I can’t submit the form because question #7 has branching logic, hide the submit button and add a progress bar in the red box

Suggestion #2: When a question has branching turned on, make it obvious for the person editing the form

  1. Change dropdown text from:

Add branching

                To

Edit branching

  1. Add an icon to the bottom bar so that you don’t have to drill down to discover that the question has branching
Figure: Make it obvious that a question has branching turned on so I don’t need to drill into “more settings”