{"id":6335,"date":"2015-07-27T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/blog\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:17:44","slug":"add-private-notes-using-hidden-fields-in-your-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/news-and-updates\/add-private-notes-using-hidden-fields-in-your-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Private Notes Using Hidden Fields in Your Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4711 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys.png\" width=\"1037\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys-512x384.png 512w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/online-surveys-1280x960.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1037px) 100vw, 1037px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With ProProfs, you can hide certain questions from your respondents and use them to record notes and comments. You can create bank forms, online questionnaires,\u00a0student enrollment surveys and more, which have hidden sections where you can add your comments or notes, once respondents are done taking the survey.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_it_works\"><\/span><strong>How it works?<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">While creating a survey<\/span>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">you can:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hide certain questions from respondents, keeping them visible to only you or other admin users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Add private notes once respondents are done taking the survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hide_questions_from_respondents\"><\/span><strong>Hide questions from respondents<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You can easily pick and choose which questions to hide while creating the survey. Let&#8217;s take the example of a\u00a0student enrollment form, which has a total of 6 questions out of which 3 questions are hidden from respondents. These 3 questions can come under a section titled \u201c<strong>For Office Use Only<\/strong>\u201d as shown below. You can similarly create a survey and hide any number of questions you want from respondents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6336\" title=\"Student Enrollment Form\" src=\"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hide_for_office_use_only_section.png\" alt=\"Student Enrollment Form\" width=\"710\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hide_for_office_use_only_section.png 943w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hide_for_office_use_only_section-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hide_for_office_use_only_section-768x555.png 768w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hide_for_office_use_only_section-512x370.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Add_private_notes_or_responses\"><\/span><strong>Add private notes or responses<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You can add comments and notes once respondents are done taking the survey. The questions which are hidden from your respondents are visible to you under survey reports. You can go to reports and then add responses as shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6338\" title=\"Hidden Question in Survey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hidden_questions_in_survey.png\" alt=\"Hidden Question in Survey\" width=\"710\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hidden_questions_in_survey.png 955w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hidden_questions_in_survey-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hidden_questions_in_survey-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/c\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/hidden_questions_in_survey-512x248.png 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>You can easily create a survey using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proprofssurvey.com\/\">ProProfs Survey Software <\/a>such as the one above. Check out our help article to <a title=\"Hide questions and add private notes to a survey\" href=\"http:\/\/survey.proprofs.com\/how-to-hide-questions-and-add-private-notes-to-a-survey\" target=\"_blank\">hide questions and add private notes to a survey<\/a>\u00a0or <a title=\"create a survey\" href=\"https:\/\/www.proprofssurvey.com\/create-a-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">create a survey<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With ProProfs, you can hide certain questions from your respondents and use them to record notes and comments. You can create bank forms, online questionnaires,\u00a0student enrollment surveys and more, which have hidden sections where you can add your comments or notes, once respondents are done taking the survey. How it works? 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