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I’d like to use EE commercially, it looks great but I am struggling trying to understand weblogs and field groups.

After much searching and user guiding I cannot see that I could set up a weblog using the more than one field group. Perhaps its just my limited understanding..

Is it possible to do this:

I’d like to have one weblog with multiple field groups so that I could have say many questions and use another (generic) fieldgroup dropdown (like yes | no) in the same weblog. This would then be repeated after the questions (of which there are many).

Weblog
  Field Group 1: Q: is it blue
  Field Group a: A: Yes | No

  Field Group 2: Q: is it green
  Field Group a: A: Yes | No

  Field Group 3: Q: is it yellow
  Field Group a: A: Yes | No
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Is this possible?

Many thanks in advance

If you are trying to do a survey, then I think the problem is how you are setting up the questions.  EE does only allow for a single field group to be assigned to a weblog. But that field group can have 1 or a couple hundred fields.  In your situation it seems as if you would want one field per question.  When creating a field in the field group, you have four primary components for that field: field_name, field_label, field_instructions, and field_type.  So my thoughts are you’d want something like:

field_name: question01
field_label: Is the Item Blue?
field_instruction: Please select yes or no for the following series of questions.
field_type: radio button

field_name: question02
field_label: Is the Item Yellow?
field_instruction: Please select yes or no for the following series of questions.
field_type: radio button

etc.

There are other components to complete, but the above four are the most important. Also if you are doing radio button fields, checkboxes, etc. You’ll want to check out Mark Hout’s extensions at http://docs.markhuot.com/. Radios and checkbox aren’t normally part of the backend control panel, but his extensions add them.  Of course if you are doing a stand alone data entry form, you can always format them yourself.