12370: Different ways of hiding a question: confusing - LimeSurvey bugs and feature requests

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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

12370	Feature requests	Survey taking	public	2017-05-02 17:55	2017-06-15 15:55

Reporter	tammo	Assigned To
Priority	none	Severity	@50@
Status	new	Resolution	open
Target Version	3.0

Summary	12370: Different ways of hiding a question: confusing
Description	I now know three ways of hiding a question from being shown on the screen, but there are nasty differences: Using a text question Use "Advanced settings > Always hide this question" and click Yes. Result: question is not shown on the screen and values that are in the answer will not be saved in the database. Use $('#question'+QID).hide(); in the question source results in: the question is not shown, but possible answers (like a result from a Javascript) will be stored. Use class "hidden" in "Advanced settings > CSS classes" results in: the question is not shown, but possible answers (like a result from a Javascript) will be stored. So: 2 and 3 seem to have the same effect, but 1 is different. I think that this is confusing. I would propose to change the setting options of "Always hide this question" from yes/no to: Show Hide (but do render) Do not render
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Attached Files	display_user_settings.lss (25,184 bytes)

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tammo 2017-05-02 17:56 partner ~43535	Or: Show Hide & use Hide & do not use

tammo 2017-05-03 11:58 partner ~43549	or better: Show Render & hide Do not render With some instruction, like: "Render & hide" means that your question will be in the outputted HTML, but it will not be shown, because it will be hidden by Javascript. This means that Javascript that is in the question text/help text/javascript field will be executed and that results may be stored in the database. "Do not render" means that the question will not be available in the outputted HTML and that all Javascript that is in the question text/help text or in the Javascript field, will not be executed. I specifically mention the (not yet existing Javascript field here), since I think that all Javascript should have it's own place in the question. Not in the question text or in the help text.

jelo 2017-05-03 13:19 partner ~43555	My feature request was about different hide Modes: None (Show Question) Hide completely ( No HTML) Hide via Javascript / JQuery Hide via CSS But your wording will be a lot more accessible. Take a look at the forum link in this ticket. Very old thread. You might post there too. https://bugs.limesurvey.org/view.php?id=11665

tammo 2017-05-03 13:56 partner ~43556 Last edited: 2017-05-03 13:56	OK, five years ago some guys (DenisChenu and TMSWhite) already had this idea. Guess I'm late... https://www.limesurvey.org/de/foren/can-i-do-this-with-limesurvey/75935-hide-questions,-execute-jquery-code#75966

tammo 2017-05-03 13:58 partner ~43557	And related in the last forum post TMSWhite made here: https://www.limesurvey.org/de/community-hilfe/forum/can-i-do-this-with-limesurvey/96599-save-data-from-hidden-question#107269

tammo 2017-06-15 15:48 partner ~43922	https://www.limesurvey.org/forum/can-i-do-this-with-limesurvey/111846-get-parameter-on-question-with-relevance#155893

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-05-02 17:55	tammo	New Issue
2017-05-02 17:55	tammo	File Added: display_user_settings.lss
2017-05-02 17:56	tammo	Note Added: 43535
2017-05-03 11:58	tammo	Note Added: 43549
2017-05-03 13:19	jelo	Note Added: 43555
2017-05-03 13:49	tammo	Relationship added	related to 11665
2017-05-03 13:56	tammo	Note Added: 43556
2017-05-03 13:56	tammo	Note Edited: 43556
2017-05-03 13:58	tammo	Note Added: 43557
2017-05-03 14:05	tammo	Description Updated
2017-06-15 15:48	tammo	Note Added: 43922
2017-06-15 15:55	c_schmitz	Project	Bug reports => Feature requests
2021-12-04 14:36	guest	Bug heat	4 => 10