Form branching logic

How to use skip logic, show/hide conditions, and complete-survey triggers to create adaptive forms in eMarketeer.

Branching logic lets you design forms that adapt based on each respondent's answers. Instead of showing every question to every respondent, you direct people along different paths — skipping irrelevant sections, revealing follow-up questions, or sending them to the thank-you page early.

The form editor supports three types of branching logic:

• Skip logic — jump to a specific question when a condition is met.
• Show/hide logic — reveal or hide a question, panel, or page based on an answer.
• Complete survey logic — end the form early and show the thank-you page when a condition is met.

All branching rules can be configured through the Conditions section of the Property Grid, or reviewed and managed together in the Logic tab. When you write conditions by hand instead of using the visual editor, see Form expression syntax for the full operator and function reference.

Skip logic

Skip logic jumps respondents ahead to a specific question when an expression evaluates to true. Use it when you want to bypass a block of questions based on what someone answered earlier.

Skip logic is configured using triggers at the survey level.

Set up skip logic

1. In the Property Grid, click Survey at the top to open survey-level settings.
2. Switch to the Conditions category.
3. Under Triggers, click the + icon to add a new trigger.
4. Select Skip to question from the trigger type dropdown.
5. Click the pen icon to expand the trigger settings.
6. Set the expression that should trigger the skip. Type it directly into the Expression field, or click the magic wand icon to build the expression using the visual editor. Click Apply when done.
7. In the Question to skip to dropdown, select the destination question.

Show/hide logic

Show/hide logic (also called display logic) reveals or hides a question, panel, or page based on a condition. It is the most flexible form of branching and works well for individual follow-up questions, related groups of questions in a panel, or entire pages.

You can set show/hide conditions on any question, panel, or page through its Conditions settings in the Property Grid.

Set up show/hide logic

1. Select the question, panel, or page you want to conditionally show or hide.
2. In the Property Grid, switch to the Conditions category.
3. Locate the Make the question/panel/page visible if field.
4. Click the magic wand icon to open the visual expression editor.
5. Select the question whose answer should control visibility.
6. Choose a condition operator: Empty, Not empty, Equals, Does not equal, Any of, Greater than, Less than, Greater than or equal to, or Less than or equal to.
7. Enter or select the answer value that should trigger the condition.
8. Click Apply.

The element stays hidden until the condition is met. If the respondent goes back and changes their answer so the condition is no longer true, the element is hidden again.

A question that is hidden by display logic cannot be required at the same time. If a required question is hidden, the required setting is ignored.

Complete survey logic

Complete survey logic ends the form early and takes the respondent to the thank-you page when a specific condition is met. Use it when certain answers mean there is nothing more for a respondent to fill in.

Like skip logic, this is configured using triggers at the survey level.

Set up complete survey logic

1. In the Property Grid, click Survey at the top to open survey-level settings.
2. Switch to the Conditions category.
3. Under Triggers, click the + icon to add a new trigger.
4. Select Complete survey from the trigger type dropdown.
5. Click the pen icon to expand the trigger settings.
6. Set the expression that should complete the survey. Type it directly into the Expression field, or click the magic wand icon to build the expression using the visual editor. Click Apply when done.

Managing all branching rules in the Logic tab

The Logic tab gives you a single view of every conditional rule in your form. All rules defined in individual Conditions sections — skip triggers, show/hide conditions, and complete-survey triggers — are listed here.

Use the Logic tab to:

• Review all branching rules in one place.
• Edit or delete individual rules without navigating to each element.
• Add new rules directly without opening a specific question's settings.

To open the Logic tab, click Logic in the editor's top tab bar.