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A person or group question is used when you want the user of the form to select or enter a SharePoint user or group. Person or group question settings Question title: each question must have a title. It’s a required field and will appear on the form as a label when the user fills in the question Question code: each question needs a unique code. One is generated by default when you start creating a new question, but you can overwrite this and give it a different code, if you prefer. The question code won’t appear on the form itself, but you can use it to search and filter by when adding questions Question type: person or group Required: you need to specify whether the question is required or not. If you set a question as required, the user must provide an answer to it on the form in order to be able to submit the form. However, the user can save as draft without answering all required questions. If you try to submit a form without answering all required questions, an error message will appear showing a list of questions that haven’t been answered Question description: it’s optional whether you enter a description or not. The description is used as a tooltip on the form and will add an exclamation point beside the question on the form. If the user clicks on the exclamation point, the description (tooltip) will appear Publish question as list field: check this box to save the question to the SharePoint forms list. This allows you to report on the question from there Allow selection of: you can opt to limit the selection to people only or groups only, or alternatively you can allow selection of people and groups User selection mode: available when people only is selected. You can allow the user to pick from all users, limit selection to Engage users only, or limit it to a specific SharePoint group. If you select SharePoint group, choose the group from the drop-down menu. You can also check Use dropdown menu to display the lookup as a dropdown Default value: choose no value, current user, or user or group. If you select user or group, you need to enter the relevant username or email address Available offline: syncs available options for use on the mobile app when offline Show question title on form: check this option if you want to display the question’s title to the left of the actual input field. If you uncheck this option, the input field is moved out to the left and appears right under the other questions/question titles Place title on top: check this option to display the question’s title above the input field. If you uncheck this option, the title appears to the left of the input field, as normal Render, but hide question on form: if you check this option, the question will behave as shown by default (default value, publishing and calculation will apply). However, the question will not be displayed on the form Textbox width: sets the width of the question’s input field on the form Once you’ve entered all relevant information, click save. If you don’t want to save the question or the changes you’ve made, simply click close