Hide labels on survey from public viewing

JenniferJ

Hi, I'm new here and trying to learn about Survey123's capabilities through the online format. Is it possible to hide a label from the public who are taking the survey, but for it to remain attached to the question so when results are exported to Excel, the label is visible? This is something we've been able to do in FormBuilder123, but wanted to make the switch to Survey123 if possible.

abureaux

Gottcha.

Web Builder is feature lite. Using Connect may be the way to go as you can specify a "hidden name" for every question. In Connect, you need to specify a "name" for each question. That "name" is a hidden value (no spaces, no repeats, no special characters, no capitals*) which is the "true column reference". You also specify a "label" which is what the end user sees. The "label" can be anything.

Another approach to consider is how you are extracting data from AGO/Portal. If you use an automation software, you could specify anything for the column titles. This may be a little beyond scope though.

And as @DavidPike already referenced, you can hide questions in the Web Builder. This should work if you add a calculated question with the name "tillage_application", and make its value equal to the user input field with the pretty label. In this case, you would just ignore the column with the pretty label.

* Technically, this only applies if you are publishing to Enterprise from Connect. If you use AGO, this limitation doesn't exist. Also, if you publish to Enterprise from ArcPro first, and then connect to that layer with Connect, that limitation is ignored. It's a little silly with the capitals.