When using the Form Center, you may want the ability to have secondary field sets appear depending on a user’s answer. Generally, when a user selects “other” as a response or if further information is required depending on the answer. There are options for conditional formatting, you can hide or show items, redirect to a website, or require a field set.
Options
- Show: Determine if the field selected will show if another action is taken.
- Hide: Determine if the field selected will hide if another action is taken.
- Require: Determine if the field selected will be required if another action is taken.
- Redirect to: Determine if the field selected will redirect someone to a new location if another action is taken.
Example
Checkbox Field Question – Conditional Show
- Question: What is your favorite fruit?
- Answers:
- Apples
- Oranges
- Other
If you would like users to have the ability to specify an answer, add another field box (such as Short Answer). This will be the field set that appears once a selection has been made.
Instructions
- Navigate to Modules > Content > Form Center
- Select the category
- Select the form that should have the conditions
- Note: We recommend that you build the form out entirely before you add conditions. View our Create a Form article for more information.
- Select the field to apply a condition to
- Select the Advanced tab
- Select New Condition
- Note: Checking Internal use only makes the field invisible to front-end users but is able to be used after the form is submitted by back-end users.
- Set the I want to option
- Show: Determine if the field selected will show if another action is taken.
- Hide: Determine if the field selected will hide if another action is taken.
- Require: Determine if the field selected will be required if another action is taken.
- Redirect to: Determine if the field selected will redirect someone to a new location if another action is taken.
- Select Next
- When ___'s answer pop-up appears; select what field the original one relies on
- Select the criteria (will vary based on the type of field)
- Click Next
- Select Done to confirm the condition
- Click Save Changes
- Note: Click the X to remove a condition.
- Note: Click the X to remove a condition.
- Click Save
Feedback About the Article
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It would be a great feature to add conditional logic as an option for displaying a text field.
We should absolutely have the option to use conditionals with text fields. I want to be able to, say, have people check several boxes that apply to an Permitting project, then be able to display different forms depending on what checkboxes they click.
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