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How conditionals work

A conditional rule allows you to refine the flow of your form for your users, based on their responses to questions. For example: a conditional rule could allow you to create follow-up questions that are only shown if a response requiring follow-up is needed.

The example below shows a wizard-type form where prospective exchange students can find affiliated educational institutions in other cities based on:

• The language they can speak
  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Mandarin or Cantonese
  • Portuguese
• Which continents they are interested in visiting
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • South America
  • Africa

Once a student selects both a language AND a continent, affiliate institutions that apply to the selected language and continent will appear.

If there are no institutions that offer instruction in a particular language at a particular continent, a warning message to that effect will be displayed.

If a student selects multiple languages and/or continents, then all the applicable institutions and messages will appear.

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Conditional statements

Simple conditionals:

This is how the simple conditionals were set up for the monolingual institutions:

• University of Santo Tomas
• King’s College
• University of Johannesburg
• University of Nairobi
• Paris-Sorbonne

As such, their respective conditionals are simple “if-and-then” statements:

• If I can speak English AND I’d like to go to Asia, then University of Santo Tomas is shown
• If I can speak English AND I’d like to go to Europe, then King’s College is shown
• If I can speak English AND I’d like to go to Africa
  • then University of Johannesburg is shown
  • then University of Nairobi is shown
• If I can speak French AND I’d like to go to Europe, then Paris-Sorbonne is shown

Note: They don’t require OR statements because only one language is applicable.

Nested conditionals

This is how the nested conditionals were set up for bilingual institutions:

• University of Hong Kong
• National University of Singapore
• Université de Guyane

Because these institutions use more than one language, simple “if-and-then” statements would not suffice. There must be a nested OR conditional that includes the second language in the statement:

• If I can speak English OR Mandarin or Cantonese AND I’d like to go to Asia
  • then University of Hong Kong is shown
  • then National University of Singapore is shown
• If I can speak English OR French AND I’d like to go to South America
  • then Université de Guyane is shown

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