# Piping answers spontaneously disappear

**URL:** <https://community.surveysparrow.com/t/piping-answers-spontaneously-disappear/2240>\
**Category:** Customer Experience (All Surveys)\
**Created:** [March 26, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://community.surveysparrow.com/t/piping-answers-spontaneously-disappear/2240 "2022-03-26T03:09:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Colin\_Bay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Colin\_Bay](https://community.surveysparrow.com/u/Colin_Bay)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 3:09am UTC](https://community.surveysparrow.com/t/piping-answers-spontaneously-disappear/2240/1 "2022-03-26T03:09:00Z")

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I'm piping answers from previous multiple-select questions into a matrix question. Strangely, the dropdown menu keeps dropping more and more of my previous questions as possibilities.

Originally it showed all 4 of my previous multiple choice questions. Then a minute later, it only showed 3. Now it shows only 2. I haven't deleted any questions or changed the question type, and I can see them in the list pane on the left.

[Update] Now there's **nothing** in the list! This screenshot shows the Pipe Answer dialog box, and you can see in the background that there are plenty of qualifying questions that precede question 8.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/surveysparrow1/original/1X/3228622a5b291043a033e3b9d3a24da4f080b1e5.png)

What do I do? This bug is preventing me from testing and fielding my survey.

Thanks,  
Colin

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**Author:** ![Wahab](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.surveysparrow.com/wahab/32/319_2.png) [@Wahab](https://community.surveysparrow.com/u/Wahab)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://community.surveysparrow.com/t/piping-answers-spontaneously-disappear/2240/2 "2022-03-26T11:56:52Z")

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Colin,

Can we connect to understand more on this? Feel free to schedule a meeting based on your availability [here](https://meetings.hubspot.com/awahab).

Cheers

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**Author:** ![Colin\_Bay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a4c791/32.png) [@Colin\_Bay](https://community.surveysparrow.com/u/Colin_Bay)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.surveysparrow.com/t/piping-answers-spontaneously-disappear/2240/3 "2022-03-26T17:40:20Z")

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Thanks, Abdul. I’ve put an appointment on Monday morning. I hope you can help. I’ve tried the obvious things (reload the page, log out and log in, try a different browser) but still have the problem of disappearing pages from the piping dropdown.

Thanks,  
Colin