Conditionally set field to be readonly in Survey123

[YuyingLi]

Hello,

I would like to set the fields read only based on the coniditions (the preivous choice)...Can I do that? Here is what I put the the read only column for the field:

if (${purpose}='inplementation', 'yes', '')

The purpose field is the dropdown - based on the selection, the other field (B) will either read only or editable.

But with the fomular, the field B becames read only no matter what the drop-down selction is.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Yuying

[Anonymous User · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Is there a typo in your formula? 

if (${purpose}='inplementation', 'yes', '')

Easier to do it without the if i.e. in readonly:

${purpose} = 'implementation' or ${purpose} = ''

Cheers,

Chris

[YuyingLi]

Yes – thanks! Works great!!

Yuying Li, GISP

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[Anonymous User]

Glad to hear we could help Yuying.

Can you please mark the answer as correct.

Thanks, Chris

[JamieKelly1]

Will this also work in the webform?  I tried and doesn't seem to work, maybe I am doing something wrong.

Edit:  Forgot to mention that it was working fine in the IOS app before I tried it out in the webform.

[wilcow]

did you get an answer to this? I'm unable (so far) to set a Multiple Choice question to Read only

[JackFanZhang]

As of Mar 2023, readonly still doesn't support formular on the web from... What a frustration. I hope the product manager understands their customers need an efficient form builder to build a form that behaves the same across the platforms (mobile and web).

[LJackson29]

@JackFanZhang Agreed that this is really needed.