👁️Show & hide conditions
Show or hide a question in Dapta Forms based on an earlier answer or the score so far: Show when and Hide when, the operators for each field type, the contradiction guard, the never-shows warnings and
Conditions decide whether a question appears at all. A question with no conditions always appears; add a Show when or Hide when rule and it only appears for the respondents who match. Conditions never change the order of questions: a hidden question is simply skipped, and the respondent continues with the next visible one. To send people somewhere else, use Branching & jumps.
This page uses a form built from the Lead qualifier template with a slider question added ("How many leads do you handle per month?").
Open the Logic dialog
Step 1: In the Build tab, select the question you want to show or hide. In the Question settings panel on the right, find the Logic card and click Edit logic. While the question has no rules the card reads No logic yet. This question always appears and continues in order.
The dialog is titled Logic: {question} and has two sections: When this question appears (conditions, this page) and Where the answer leads (branching, see Branching & jumps). The same dialog opens from a card on the Logic canvas and from the form-wide Branching dialog, so it does not matter where you start.
💡 Tip: Conditions can only look at questions that come before the current one. If the Show when list is empty, move the question further down the form first. The hint Leave both empty and it always appears. reminds you that both rules are optional.
Show when: an earlier choice answer
Step 2: Under Show when, open the field picker (it reads Always show while empty) and pick an earlier question. For a choice, dropdown or multiple choice question the dialog shows the option chips under the label Matches any of. Click every option that should make this question appear.
The rule reads: show this question if the answer to What's your main goal? is any of the selected options. For a multiple choice source, one selected option in the respondent's answer is enough.
Step 3: Click Done. The Logic card now summarizes the rule in a sentence (for example Show if What's your main goal? is any of Capture more leads, Qualify faster) and the question card in the list shows a 1 rule badge.
Show when: a slider value or the score so far
Step 4: Pick a Slider question (or Score so far, the first entry in the list) as the source. Instead of chips you get a Condition dropdown and one or two number fields.
Single choice, Multiple choice, Dropdown
Matches any of
Option chips: click every option that counts.
Short text, Long text, Email, Phone, Name, Website
Matches any of
A text box; enter comma-separated values to match exactly.
Slider
Equal to, Greater than, Less than, Between
Value, or Min and Max for Between.
Score so far
Greater than, Less than, Equal to, Between
Value, or Min and Max for Between.
Between is inclusive at both ends. Score so far means the points collected by the questions above this one; the question's own answer is not counted because it has not been given yet. The dialog prints Highest possible score before this question: {n} so you know the range you are working with. If no question above can add points, the dialog warns that the score is always 0 here and the rule can never change what respondents see.
Hide when
Hide when works exactly like Show when, with the opposite effect: the question is hidden for respondents who match. While it is empty the picker reads Never hidden. Use Hide when when it is shorter to describe who should not see the question ("hide the pricing question for Just exploring") than who should.
You can combine both. When you do, a respondent must match the Show when rule and not match the Hide when rule. Click Clear next to either label to remove that rule.
The contradiction guard
If the two rules cancel each other out, the dialog shows a red warning and you should fix one of them before moving on.
The full message reads These show and hide rules cancel out. This question could never appear. Adjust one of them. A softer informational notice appears when the hide rule only cuts into the show rule, because the question still appears for some respondents: The hide rule cuts into the show rule: this question only appears for {lo} to {hi}. If that is what you meant, ignore this. (the notice prints the real range).
Never-shows warnings
The dialog also warns when a single rule can never match, because the question would silently disappear for everyone:
This rule has no value yet, so it never matches. The question is hidden from everyone until you fill it in.
A slider or score rule with an empty Value, Min or Max.
Min is above Max, so no answer can fall in this range. The question is hidden from everyone.
A Between rule whose Min is larger than its Max.
No options are selected, so this rule never matches. The question is hidden from everyone.
A Matches any of rule with no chip selected.
This hide rule is incomplete, so it never applies. Finish it or clear it.
A Hide when rule missing its value. Unlike a broken show rule, an incomplete hide rule simply does nothing.
On the Logic canvas and map, a question with rules that can never match carries the note These rules mean this question never appears.
Personal email only
Some forms ask for an email first and, when it is a personal address (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and similar), follow up with "Which company are you with?" or "What's your website?". You do not need a condition for that: once the form contains an Email question, every later question offers a Personal email only switch in its Logic card.
The hint reads Show this question only when the respondent entered a personal (non-work) email.
The gate reads the first Email question of the form. Respondents who typed a work address skip the question.
If that Email question has Require work email turned on, personal addresses are rejected before they get this far, so the gated question would never show. Turn Require work email off on the email question when you want this branch.
The switch lives in the Question settings panel, not inside the dialog, and it is not counted in the {n} rules badge.
Conditions and one-page forms
In a One page layout the same rules run live: a gated question appears or disappears on the page as the respondent answers. See One-page layout.
What's next
Branching & jumps: send respondents to a later question or to the end.
Scoring: the points that feed a Score so far condition.
Dynamic questions (variants): change the wording of a question instead of hiding it.
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