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Create a PDF Check Box Scoring Questionnaire in Five Minutes

Here's the scenario: A PDF questionnaire with check box choices for each question, and a number scoring system that allots points for each answer, then totals the points at the end.

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David Dagley
Nov 25, 2023
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For example, each question has 5 choices:

1)   Strongly disagree (1 point).

2)   Disagree (2 points).

3)   Somewhat agree (3 points).

4)   Agree (4 points).

5)   Strongly agree (5 points).

There are 10 questions per page, with three pages.  The highest possible score is 150 (10 x 3 x 5).  Once you have your static PDF you can add the form fields and put this together in less than five minutes because of the following principles.

1)   Check boxes with the same name and different export values are mutually exclusive (only one in the series can be checked simultaneously).

2)   In form editing mode, using right-click > Place Multiple Fields will create multiple fields with the same route name and a different suffix.

3)   Adding together field values of fields with the same route name and a different suffix requires only selecting the field with the same route name in the calculation tab of the field properties.

4)   Adding the values of check boxes with numbers for export values will add those numbers togethers and ignore, or treat as zero, unchecked check boxes, which have a default export value of "Off".

5)   The export value of multiple check box fields can be changed simultaneously by changing the export value of one check box, while multiple check boxes are selected.

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