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February 17, 2024
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I’m building a Risk Profile Questionnaire where there are multiple questions where I’m using Radio Button Groups and have a value for each selection. How do I total up each of the values they select for each question?

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Best answer by David.Schmitz

@userbilly I know that the capability you are looking for is available if using “Dropdown” fields but I am not aware of a methodology to use Radio Buttons in Formulas. Formula fields are a great way of creating mathematical functions such as addition, subtraction on other DocuSign fields but there are limits as detailed in the article below:

https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?bundleId=gbo1643332197980&topicId=hck1578456359426.html&_LANG=enus

Taking that into consideration a Radio Button, as I am aware, does not have a translation of selection to value like a Dropdown field, meaning that if you have a Dropdown with 4 selections such a “High, Moderate and Low” you can convert each selection to a numerical value and then use the Formula fields.

Functionally speaking could you switch to Dropdown fields instead of radio buttons?

I think a feature in which a radio button could translate to a numerical value would be useful.

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Christopher.Alpizar

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Hello @userbilly,

Thank you for reaching out here in the DocuSign Community.

I apologize for the inconvenience that this might cause you, I know the importance of your envelope information being displayed correctly; I understand that you have some queries about the use of the radio buttons.

To better assist you can you provide more information about the use case?

Are the values that you are referring are they numerical values?

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userbilly

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Thank you for the reply. I’ll try to lay it out. Let’s say I’m doing 4 different radio button groups with 3 radio buttons on each and there is a numerical value associated with each button. When the user clicks a radio button from each group I then want to total the value of the 4 different buttons that were selected.

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David.Schmitz

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@userbilly I know that the capability you are looking for is available if using “Dropdown” fields but I am not aware of a methodology to use Radio Buttons in Formulas. Formula fields are a great way of creating mathematical functions such as addition, subtraction on other DocuSign fields but there are limits as detailed in the article below:

https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?bundleId=gbo1643332197980&topicId=hck1578456359426.html&_LANG=enus

Taking that into consideration a Radio Button, as I am aware, does not have a translation of selection to value like a Dropdown field, meaning that if you have a Dropdown with 4 selections such a “High, Moderate and Low” you can convert each selection to a numerical value and then use the Formula fields.

Functionally speaking could you switch to Dropdown fields instead of radio buttons?

I think a feature in which a radio button could translate to a numerical value would be useful.

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Lisa McInnes

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If you cant switch to drop downs you could use conditional text fields that represent the number for each selection - make them white so they cant be seen by the user. Then use a formula field that adds all the conditional text fields together and it would show the risk score you want

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Christopher.Alpizar

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Hi @userbilly,

I hope you are doing well.

I would like to confirm if you were able to solve your issue by utilizing the solution that was suggested or if the information that was provided was useful.

If so, please mark it as the best answer by clicking “Select as Best” to make it easier for other users to find.

Otherwise, feel free to let me know and I will gladly help you address the situation as soon as possible.

Best regards,

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