Ranking Drag and Drop freeform interaction: is it possible?

Hi all,

I'm trying to create an interaction which has the functionality of a Ranking Drag and Drop (from the survey slide template menu), but with the customisation possibilities of a Freeform Drag and Drop, so the interaction looks like the rest of my module.

The functionality I'm hoping to achieve is:

• The learner can shuffle/rank a series of statements that sit in one column (rather than one column of draggable pieces and a second column of drop targets).
• When the learner drags a statement to the place they want and releases it, the piece that is currently sitting in that drop target shuffles to the empty space available in the interaction.
• And all of this is done nice and tidily with drag items snapped to the target.
• With a look and feel consistent with the rest of my module :)

At the moment I currently have my drop targets at the back of the slide, and the draggable pieces sit on top. I've set my freeform to allow only one dropped item per target, but I can't then tell the piece where I want it to go specifically - it just bumps to it's original place, or gets lost behind other pieces etc... it's a bit of a mess

I'm having trouble formulating the precise question for what I'm after to bring up a search result, so apologies if this has already been covered in another thread and I didn't see it!

Here's a Tempshare link, and I've attached my working file with a bit of an explanation too.

Any advice is greatly appreciated, would love to hear your thoughts!

Jilly