Remove Properties from the Property Grid

If you want to prevent users from accessing or modifying a certain survey element's property, you can hide it from the Property Grid. Survey Creator allows you to hide either an individual property or multiple properties at once. This example demonstrates an API used to hide the visibleIf property for pages, panels, and questions and the description and showTitle properties for the survey.

To hide a property from the Property Grid, handle the onPropertyShowing event and set options.show to false. A hidden property can still be edited on the design surface. To disable in-place editing, handle onAllowInplaceEdit and set options.allow to false for that property. This demo uses both events to prevent editing the survey's description in the Property Grid and on the design surface. Open the Code tab to see the handlers.