Require a question only sometimes, personalize a form with a respondent's own answers, and prefill or hide a field from the link.
Three small field-level features that make a form feel less like a static document — a question that's only required in certain circumstances, text that adapts to what someone already answered, and fields that fill themselves in from the link a respondent clicked.
Require only sometimesCopied!
Make a question required only under certain conditions — for example, a phone number that's only required if the respondent asked for a call back. The required marker (*) only appears when the rule is actually met, so it never marks something the respondent won't be asked for.
On the question, click the ⋯ menu → Field options
Turn on Require this only sometimes
Set the rule, exactly like Conditional Logic
Note
The question must not already be marked required. If it is, turn the Required switch off first — the panel tells you if it's still on.
Answer pipingCopied!
Puts a respondent's own answer into a later question's title or description, so the form reads like it knows them — for example, “Thanks Chidi, which school do you attend?” You can also use it in the thank-you message.
Answer piping syntax
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Thanks {{Full name}}, which school do you attend?
Wrap {{ }} around the title of an earlier question anywhere in a later question's title, description, or the thank-you message.
It shows the label of a chosen option, never its internal id — pick “VIP” and it prints VIP
Several ticked checkboxes come out as a list, e.g. “T-shirt, Lunch”
If the question hasn't been answered — or is hidden on that respondent's branch — it comes out as nothing, rather than leaving {{...}} visible on screen
Hidden fields and prefilled linksCopied!
Puts information into a form from the link itself, instead of asking for it. There are two ways to use it:
Prefilled — the question still shows, but arrives already filled in. Useful for sending someone a link with their email already in place
Hidden — the question is never shown at all. The value just travels with the response, which is how you can record where someone came from without asking them
How to use itCopied!
Add a normal short-answer question, e.g. Source
Click the ⋯ menu → Field options
Under Fill this from the link, type a key — say utm_source
To hide it completely, turn on Hide it from respondents
One form, a different link per campaign, and every response records which one it came from.
Tip
A typed answer always wins — if someone has already filled the box themselves, the link never overwrites it. And unlike a question hidden by conditional logic, a hidden field's value is saved with the response, since that's the whole point of it. Conditional logic rules can also read a hidden field, so a link can decide which questions someone sees.
