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Question Type: ranking_question

Updated over a week ago

When and Why to Use

Use this when you want respondents to rank a list of items in order of preference, importance, or relevance. Ideal for:

  • Brand or product preference

  • Feature prioritization

  • Behavioral comparisons (e.g. activities, habits)

Supports optional min/max number of items to rank, media options, and custom recoding.

Chat Experience

  • Drag-and-drop or tap-to-rank UI depending on style

  • Labels for top and bottom ranks shown as anchors

  • Optional "Don't know" button shown below options

Traditional Experience

  • Grid or stacked ranking interaction optimized for larger viewports

  • Buttons are laid out clearly with visual feedback on order

Chat experience

Traditional Experience with images

Traditional, mobile optimized, without images

Image

Configuration Options

Option

Type

Required

Default

Description

question

string

yes

-

Text shown above the ranking list

options

`List[str

MediaItem]`

yes

-

min_options

int

no

all

Minimum number of items user must rank

max_options

int

no

all

Maximum number of items user may rank

labels

Tuple[str, str]

no

("Least", "Most")

Anchors for bottom/top of the ranking

randomize

bool

no

False

Shuffle item order

fixed_options

List[str]

no

-

Items that should not be shuffled

default

List[str]

no

random

Test-mode ranking order

recodes

Dict[str, str]

no

-

Map items to alternative codes for reporting

dont_know_option

str

no

-

Adds a "Don't know" option with this label

custom_validator

`Callable[[List[str]], str

None]`

no

-

skip_empty

bool

no

False

Skip if no items to rank

image_label_field

str

no

-

Label to use for image-based items

show_image_label

bool

no

True

Whether to show labels with images

image_size

Tuple[int, int]

no

-

Size of image tiles

**topics

dict

no

-

Used for token repla

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