Several questions on one screen
Show several questions together on one screen of a Slides form in Dapta Forms: group them from the question list or the settings pane, what can and cannot share a screen, how reordering, logic, partia
On a Slides form every question gets a screen of its own by default. You can group questions so that respondents see several of them together, on one card with one button: a name, an email and a phone number on a single contact screen, or three short qualifying questions in one step.
Grouping changes only how the questions are shown. Each question keeps its own settings, field key, logic and answer, and appears as its own column in Submissions.
Screens exist only on Slides. On a One page form every question is already on the same page, so screens do not apply there (see On a one-page form below).
Group questions in the question list
Step 1: Open the form on the Build tab. In the Questions list, point at the card you want to join to the one above it. A small chain icon appears on its top edge, between the two cards. Its tooltip reads Show on the same screen as the question above.
Step 2: Click the chain. The two cards close ranks into one block, and a chip above the block names the screen, for example Screen 2 · 2 questions. Click the chain above the next card to add a third question, and so on.
The chain stays visible between cards that share a screen. Click it again (its tooltip now reads Start a new screen here) to split the screen: that question and every question below it on the screen move to a new screen.
Clicking the chain above the first question of a screen joins the two whole screens, as long as the result holds 10 questions or fewer. Questions keep their numbers in the list; the chip is what counts screens.
Or use the settings pane
Every question on a Slides form has a Show on the same screen as the question above switch in Question settings, right after the Logic card. It does exactly what the chain does. Turn it on to join the question to the screen above, and off to start a new screen at this question.
The switch is also the way to group questions in a narrow window. Below a laptop-sized window the Questions list is replaced by a row of numbered buttons under the canvas. That row selects questions and adds new ones, but it does not show screens or the chain.
What cannot share a screen
When a question cannot join the screen above, the switch stays visible but cannot be turned on, and says why. Where the chain appears in the list, its tooltip gives the same reason.
No question is shown above this one
No question is shown above this one, so there is no screen to join.
This question or the one above is a Scheduler, Reveal screen or File upload
Schedulers, reveal screens and file uploads always get a screen of their own.
The question is hidden
Hidden questions are never shown, so they don't join a screen.
Joining would put more than 10 questions on the screen
A screen holds up to 10 questions.
A Message can share a screen, which is a simple way to put a short explanation above the questions it introduces.
Move, hide and change questions on a screen
The editor keeps screens tidy as you work:
Drag within a screen to reorder its questions. They stay on the screen.
Drop a question between two questions of another screen and it joins that screen, unless the screen is full.
Drop it anywhere else and it leaves its screen.
A Scheduler, Reveal screen or File upload, or any question dropped into a full screen, lands right after the screen instead, so a drop never cuts a screen in two.
A screen left with one question stops being a screen.
Hiding a question takes it off its screen. The Hidden question hint says so: Hiding it also takes it off its screen. Showing it again puts it back when it sits between two questions of the screen, or right after the screen when the screen is full.
Changing a question's type to Scheduler, Reveal screen or File upload takes it off the screen. On a question that shares a screen, the note Schedulers, reveal screens and file uploads always get a screen of their own. under Question type warns you before you switch.
What you see in the editor
Canvas. Selecting any question of a screen shows the whole screen on the canvas as one card, with one button at the bottom, the way respondents will see it. The question the settings pane describes is marked; click another question on the card to select it. The progress indicator on the card counts screens, as on the live form.
Button text. The screen's one button is the last question's button: Next, or Submit on the last screen, in the form's language (or your own words from Design → Button text). A screen that ends with a Message shows Continue. See Language & button text.
Preview. The Step 1 of 4 counter counts screens, and the arrows move one screen at a time. See Preview.
Logic tab. On the Logic canvas each screen is drawn as a frame around its questions, with the same Screen 2 · 3 questions chip. The Logic map on small windows shows the chip too. See Logic, Scoring & Outcomes.
What respondents see
The respondent answers the questions of a screen together, on one card:
Every required question carries an asterisk.
There is one button at the bottom. Picking an option in a Single choice or a Dropdown records the answer but does not move on; the button does.
Enter in a one-line field moves to the next field, and submits the screen from the last one.
The button checks every question at once. Each question with a problem shows its own message, the summary Check the highlighted questions above. appears above the button, and the cursor moves to the first problem.
The Back arrow returns to the previous screen, with the answers still filled in.
On a form embedded in your site with embed.js, your page scrolls back to the top of the form each time the screen changes, so a tall screen never starts halfway down the page. See Embed on your website.
Logic on a screen
Each question keeps its own conditions and rules. On a screen they behave like this:
Conditions run live. A question whose Show when or Hide when rule reads another question on the same screen appears and disappears while the respondent answers. The Logic card says so: This question depends on an answer on the same screen, so it appears and disappears while they answer.
Jumps wait for the screen. A jump or a skip to the end happens when the respondent leaves the screen. The rules of its questions are read from top to bottom and the first one that goes somewhere wins, so an Always go to on an upper question wins over the rules below it.
A jump opens a whole screen. Jump lists offer only the first question of each screen. A jump into the middle of a screen opens that screen from its first visible question, and a jump to a question of its own screen is ignored.
Ends the form on a question of the screen ends the form when the respondent submits the screen.
The full rules are in Branching & jumps and Show & hide conditions.
Partial submissions, reveal screens and spam protection
Partial submit point. The marker never sits inside a screen. Placed after a question in the middle of a screen, it moves after the screen's last question, and it fires when the respondent submits the screen. See Partial submissions.
Reveal screens. A reveal always gets a screen of its own. On a question that shares a screen, Show reveal screen after reads Show a reveal screen after this screen and adds the reveal after the screen's last question. See Reveal screens.
Spam protection. When the form has spam protection on, the check appears above the button of the screen that ends the form.
Results and analytics
Grouping does not change what is stored: every question keeps its own answer, column and field key, in Submissions, the CSV export, webhooks and HubSpot. In Analytics, every question on a screen counts a view when the screen appears, so the drop-off of a screen shows on its last question.
On a one-page form
Screens are a Slides feature. On a One page form the chain, the chips and the switch do not appear, and the Design panel notes Screens only apply to Slides. On One page every question is already on one page. Your screens are kept: switch the form back to Slides and they return exactly as they were. See One-page layout.
What's next
Question settings: the switch next to the other shared settings.
Branching & jumps: how jumps behave on a screen of several questions.
What respondents see: the public form, screen by screen.
Language & button text: the words on the screen's button.
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