How to randomize the order of values in dropdown field?

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I can’t figure out how to simply randomize the order of values in a dropdown field.

The usecase is a lead submission form where we ask “how did you hear about us?” We don’t want to bias the results by showing the options in the same order each time - rather we want it to be random on each form load.

For example, if the options are:

1.“Google Search”
2. “Heard from a friend”
3. “Other”

…we would want them to be in random order each time the form is loaded or ideally just for each unique visitor.

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Hi Matt. Randomizing the order of the choices presented in a drop down field is not supported in Gravity Forms. If you would like to suggest that for inclusion in the future, I recommend adding that to our product roadmap. Click the blue :heavy_plus_sign: in the lower left on this page to add a note for our product team:

Thank you.

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You could use the gform_pre_render filter in the theme functions.php file or a custom functions plugin to shuffle the array of choices on form display. This example applies to form id 681 and field id 1:

add_filter( 'gform_pre_render_681', function ( $form ) {
	$field_id = 1;
	$field    = GFAPI::get_field( $form, $field_id );
	if ( $field instanceof GF_Field_Select ) {
		shuffle( $field->choices );
	}

	return $form;
} );
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Hey Matt, great question!

We had the same need at Gravity Wiz for an internal form and realized there wasn’t an off-the-shelf solution. So, we dreamt up and created Gravity Forms Randomizer. :smiley:

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