Hide questions and read-only items in a form

Study designers can now hide questions and read-only items in a form and have more control over the questions that are displayed.

What are the benefits?

From now on, study designers can choose which questions are displayed on forms and hide the items that shouldn't appear when collecting data. For example, when you create forms for collecting data on concomitant medications and you add coding questions to the form, now you can hide the read-only items that you create to get populated automatically with the coded term for Trade name or Drug name.

Details for study designers

On the Data Collection tab, when you create or edit a form, you now have a new toggle button that allows you to hide a question from site users.

Figure 19-8 How study designers see the new Hidden toggle button

Already working in a live study?

As soon as the upgrade for this release is complete, you can start hiding certain questions in a form so they don't appear to users who shouldn't have access to that data. You perform the update in Draft mode and it is now so much easier to apply the change to a live study version with the new study versioning feature. For more details, see Update and manage changes in a live study