Released: September 6, 2023

SurveyJS v1.9.106 adds an ability to empty text properties, position error messages in Multiple Textboxes questions, and specify tab titles in Dynamic Panel based on a condition. Survey Creator introduces a UI that enables users to reset text property values to default and delete translation strings from a survey JSON schema in one click.

Previously, when you assigned an empty string to a text property, the property value was reset to default. Since SurveyJS v1.9.106, an empty string erases a text property value. For example, the following code hides a placeholder for a Dropdown question:

// In survey JSON schema:
const json = {
  "elements": [{
    "name": "my-dropdown",
    "type": "dropdown",
    // ...
    "placeholder": ""
  }]
}

// In JavaScript:
const dropdown = survey.getQuestionByName("my-dropdown");
dropdown.placeholder = "";

If you want to reset a property value to default, set it to undefined or call a survey element's resetPropertyValue(propName) method. The following code shows how to reset the placeholder property value of a Dropdown question:

dropdown.placeholder = undefined;
// ---- or -----
dropdown.resetPropertyValue("placeholder");

The new release changes the position of error messages in Multiple Textboxes questions. Previously, error messages were displayed in a tooltip that appeared when users hover the mouse pointer over a text box or press and hold it. Since SurveyJS v1.9.106, error messages are displayed above or below a text box, depending on the errorLocation property value.

Previous UI

Current UI

errorLocation: "top"

errorLocation: "bottom"

SurveyJS recently implemented a tab view for Dynamic Panel. The new release enhances this feature by introducing an onGetDynamicPanelTabTitle event. Handle this event if you want to set tab titles dynamically. For example, the following code shows how to populate a tab title with a selected value from a "country" question. Until a country is selected, the tab title displays "New country".

survey.onGetDynamicPanelTabTitle.add((_, options) => {
  const value = options.panel.getQuestionByName("country").value;
  options.title = value || "New country";
});

This release adds Reset buttons to text property editors with default values. When users click a Reset button, its property editor restores the default property value.

Survey Creator users can define translations for survey texts in the Translation tab. Previously, if you added custom translations within this tab, they were also added to the survey JSON schema and were never deleted from it. In the new release, Survey Creator adds Remove buttons to the language list. These buttons enable you to delete all translations to a selected language from the survey JSON schema.

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Form Library

• [React] Ranking on mobile screens: The drag icon is lost if you drag an item by it (#6837)
• Ranking: Drag & Drop works for disabled choices (#6834)
• In-place editing: Question actions appear incorrectly on the design surface (#4354)
• When using valuePropertyName for a Checkbox question, it is impossible to use this question in another question's visibleIf expression (#6852)
• Tag Box: The placeholder is not updated when changing a survey locale (#6830)
• Dynamic Panel within Dynamic Panel: The inner Dynamic Panel doesn't display the specified initial number of panels (#6646)
• Dropdown with Lazy Loading occasionally returns undefined as a custom itemvalue property value (#6761)
• A question with visible set to false is lost on the design surface after duplicating a panel #6881

Survey Creator

• Introduce a capability to exit the JSON Editor tab although JSON contains errors (#4518)
• Multi-Select Matrix: An exception is raised when switching the cell question type to Boolean (#4519)
• Memory leaks when changing tabs (#4484)