Read Only Surveys

Requires:

Smap Server 22.11
FieldTask 6.803

You may have a requirement to look up data purely for reference. For example a survey that allows a user to select a product and then view the details of that product. In this case it may not be necessary to send any new data to the server. Read only surveys can be used for this purpose.

Note

Shouldn't the questions in a read only survey be read only by default. Well actually no. You may well need to enter keys in order to look up data, such as in the example above when a product is selected to see the product details. If you don't want the reference data to appear modifiable then you can set those questions to be read only in the survey.

Making a survey Read Only

In the online editor select the menu file and then settings. Check the checkbox marked "Read Only".

In the spreadsheet editor set read_only_survey to yes in the settings worksheet

Settings Worksheet
read_only_survey
yes

Identifying Read Only Surveys

Read only surveys are shown in purple in the administration page and in fieldTask.

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fieldTask with read only surveys

Behavior

Read only surveys will work the same as normal surveys in fieldTask and webforms, with the exception of the last page. Instead of showing a "Save and Exit" button on the last page, the button will just say "Exit". No data will be saved and no data will be sent to the server.