Building Forms for Multi-Category Events in Reviewr
If your program includes multiple categories—such as awards, scholarships, grants, or other tracks where the applicant’s selection determines the rest of their submission journey—this article is for you. Check out this guided walkthrough.
Before you begin, if you need help navigating the form builder itself, we recommend starting with our Form Builder Overview and Guided Walkthrough for using Reviewr’s new wiki-style form builder.
Planning for Multi-Path Submission Forms
As you begin building your form, you may realize that your event offers multiple tracks or categories that will determine the path a submitter follows through the form. Thankfully, Reviewr makes it easy to structure your form in a way that’s smooth and intuitive for both applicants and reviewers.
Step 1: Create a Category Selection Question
Start by adding a multiple choice question that asks the applicant to select their category, award, grant, scholarship, etc. This step is critical—it lays the foundation for routing users through different sections of the form.
⚠️ Important: This category selection question must be placed on the first page of the form, or on a page that appears before any category-specific questions. This ensures the system knows which page(s) to show or hide based on the applicant’s selection.
Step 2: Build a Page for Each Category
After your selection question is in place, create a new page for each category. These pages will contain the questions that apply only to that specific track.
For example:
"STEM Scholarship" page
"Arts Grant" page
"Community Award" page
Each of these pages can include unique questions tailored to that particular category.
Step 3: Shared Questions Go on Shared Pages
If there are questions that apply to all applicants, regardless of category, include them on a general page that everyone will see—either before or after the category-specific pages.
Avoid duplicating universal questions on every category page. This not only keeps your form clean and consistent, saves you time, but also simplifies data review later.
Step 4: Contact the Reviewr Team to Finalize Logic
Once your form structure is complete, reach out to the Reviewr team via the in-app chat. Let us know which multiple choice question determines category, and which pages correspond to each option.
We’ll take it from there and configure conditional visibility, so applicants will only see the pages relevant to their chosen category.
Recap
By following this setup:
Applicants are only shown the questions relevant to them
You avoid building and managing multiple forms
Your data stays centralized and easier to manage
The applicant experience remains clean and frustration-free
Need help structuring your form? Chat with us—we’re happy to help make sure everything is set up correctly from the start!