Read-Only Questions Look Editable

Question

Hi all,

When configuring read-only questions in Survey123 Connect a lot of the time they look like they are editable because they still display what looks like a response field under the question (ever so slightly greyed out box).

I've found I can prevent this by setting the appearance to compact if it is an open text field or by using note fields and hiding the actual fields etc., but I was wondering if there's a simpler way to go about it for non-text questions like integer or decimal?

JoshConrad1 · Answer

I needed to have a readonly date field appear in my form with the intent of hosting a web map as an element in an experience builder map that integrated survey123 into the map's popup. the form was developed using Survey123 connect, and when i would test it as desired (thru Experience Builder) the date field was still editable. I finally got the date field to be uneditable by configuring my date field in survey123 as described below:

1) create a date field type

2) set appearance to Hidden

3) set readonly to YES and default to "today()"

then created a new text field type - set it to required and read only and set the entry in the calculation column to format-date(${date_field_name},'%m/%d/%Y'). solved my issue.

hope this methodology works for others trying to do something similar with different field types!

dougbrowning · Answer

Well yep can no longer copy.  Bummer.  I do not think there is any way to make it different unless you change to a note type.

MappingMoose · Answer

I have found that with either presentation of the read only question, copy/paste is blocked on both the mobile app and the desktop app. It does allow highlighting of the value, but nothing further.