I looked through the docs because I THOUGHT I remembered seeing this as an option but now I think I may have just been making that up in my head. So, I guess this is a feature request.
Sometimes, when I upload questions (especially a majority rules type question where there is no predetermined winning answer) I’d like the answers to stay in the order I uploaded them. (For example, a horse race type question where I need the numbers to stay in order on the display)
I thought I remembered a way to mark the question that would keep the answers in the uploaded order but I may have been confusing that with the @@@ upload to create multiple correct answers.
I understand this would mess with the first column is correct algorithm but wondering if it’s not possible to enable this somehow. I’m thinking poll questions might like this as well.
We did add some functionality to CSV imported games with “True” and “False” answer options (and “Yes” and “No”). Since we can detect these easily, we can always put these answer options in the same order, regardless of which answer is correct.
But overall, we can’t preserve answer orders as there’s currently no way to set the correct answer in the CSV. We have to use a designated answer column (the first one).
I suppose a feature could be added that says “Preserve Answer Order” but then you would have to set the correct answer on each question after importing, which could get really cumbersome on multiple imports during the editing process. I suppose we could update the CSV format to include a special token (e.g. something like @@@) appended to the column(s) that are correct?
Yeah, I get that it’s probably a weird use case and probably way to cumbersome to make work without throwing a lot of other things off.
Here are two cases where it could be useful:
1 - The “Horse Race” case that I mentioned. There are always 8-10 answers and they have to be in order. Honestly, this is such a rare use, even for me, that the juice is probably not worth the squeeze. However…
2 - Used more often, when there is a “funny” answer option, you want that one to be last.
Again, I completely understand how this could throw off everything else and putting them in the order I want, for the specific questions I want, isn’t THAT big of a deal. I just thought I’d throw it out there so if someone on the dev team looked at it and thought “Oh, that would be easy…” that it could be helpful. My guess is… it’s not that easy.
