Progress Override helps you control how the progress bar and question numbers are displayed in your quiz when using logic jumps or skip/show conditions.
Why this feature is needed
By default, the progress bar and question indicator are linked to the total number of questions in the quiz.
When you use logic jumps or skip/show conditions, the number of questions a quiz taker sees can change depending on their answers. This can lead to confusing experiences because the progress bar doesn’t reflect what the quiz taker is seeing.
For example, a user might answer only two questions but see a much higher number, such as “Question 14 out of 16” as their 3rd because of how the quiz logic is set up.
What Progress Override does
Progress Override allows you to manually control how the progress bar and question numbers are displayed.
Instead of using the default question numbering, you can define your own sequence, such as “Question 5 out of 8”, even if the actual question ID is different in the quiz structure.
This helps create a smoother and more intuitive experience for quiz takers.
When to use Progress Override
This feature works best when each quiz path has a similar number of questions, regardless of which answers are selected. For example, here is a quiz with 3 different logic jump branches, each with the same number of questions:
Each quiz taker will answer only 5 total questions regardless of their path.
This can also work well when using skip/sow conditions. Let’s use a nutritional supplement quiz as an example:
All users answer the first 4 questions asking for their name, gender, age and main health goal
They then answer 2 follow-up questions based on their health goal
Finally, they answer 2 closing questions about allergies and flavour preference
In this case, every user sees a total of 8 questions, regardless of their health goal, but the quiz can have a much larger total number of questions.
How to set up Progress Override
To use this feature:
Open your quiz in the Quiz Builder
Select the question you want to update
Go to the General Design section
In the Progress Override set the current question number and the total number of questions
Repeat this for each question where you want to control the progress display.
Note: The Progress Override values are not reflected inside the Quiz Builder preview. The builder may still show the original numbering (for example, 8 out of 16). The updated progress will appear only when you preview or take the quiz.
Example setup
We’ll come back to our earlier example of a nutritional supplement quiz where the first 4 questions are shown to everyone. After that, the quiz shows 2 follow-up questions based on the selected health goal. Finally, the last 2 questions are shown to everyone.
Each quiz taker sees 8 questions in total:
Questions 1 to 4 are common questions
Questions 5 and 6 are follow-up questions that change depending on the selected health goal
Questions 7 and 8 are final common questions
Even though the quiz contains more questions in the background, Progress Override lets you display a clean sequence from 1 out of 8 to 8 out of 8.
In our setup, we used Progress Override so that:
The first 4 questions display as Question 1 out of 8 through Question 4 out of 8
The follow-up questions display as Question 5 out of 8 and Question 6 out of 8
The final 2 questions display as Question 7 out of 8 and Question 8 out of 8
The diagram below shows how this structure works in practice:
This creates a clearer and more predictable experience for quiz takers.
Important limitations
Progress Override is not a perfect solution and will not work for every quiz setup.
It may not work well when:
Questions allow multiple selections
Different answer paths lead to significantly different numbers of questions
For example, if a user can select multiple options and trigger multiple follow-up paths, the total number of questions will vary. In this case, it is not possible to accurately predict how many questions the user will see.
Because of this, the progress bar may still appear inconsistent.
Summary
Progress Override helps you create a cleaner and more predictable quiz experience by controlling how progress is displayed.
It is most effective in quizzes with structured paths and consistent question counts, and should be used carefully in more complex scenarios.