Display only 3 digits but don't round

[Nicole_Ueberschär]

I do some calculations within my survey that result in many decimal digits. I need to keep the correct number for the further calculations but I would like to show only e.g. 3 decimal digits in the form. Is that somehow possible without creating additional "fake" fields?

[JamesTedrick]

Hi Nicole,

Decimal questions don't have options to provide formatting while retaining values.  As you indicated, the way you do this is to have a note question refer to the real value (which presumably would be a hidden or calculate question) that uses the round() function to display.  One thing that may help is that if a note question is not given a name, a field will not be created for it (so no 'fake' field).