Show or hide questions

Keep your form short by showing questions only to the people who need them. For example, show "Please give details" only when someone answers Yes.

Steps

1. In the builder, open the settings of the question you want to show or hide (click it, then Edit).
2. Scroll to Show or hide at the bottom of the window.
3. Change Always show it to Only show it when… or Hide it when….
4. In Pick a question, choose the question it depends on.
5. Choose is, is not, is answered or is not answered.
6. For is and is not, pick the answer from the list. For a question without a list, type the answer.
7. Click Save in the window, then Save at the top of the builder.

More than one condition

Click + Add another condition to add more. Then choose whether all of these are true or any of these is true. Click the cross next to a condition to remove it.

Show or hide a whole section

Put the questions in a Box / page (from Design elements) and set Show or hide on the box. Everything inside it shows or hides together. See Pages and sections.

Good to know

• A hidden question is never mandatory, even if Mandatory is ticked, so it can't stop the form being sent.
• Answers to hidden questions are not kept, and they don't appear on the response or its PDF.
• For a Tick box, the answers to pick from are Ticked and Not ticked.
• Try your rules with Phone view: it works like the real form, and nothing is sent.
• If you change the wording of an option a rule uses, open the rule and pick the answer again. See Lists of options.
• When you copy a form from another tool, Formhub copies or adds rules where it can. Rules it added, or couldn't copy, are listed under Please check:. See Bring your existing forms.