Display of Descriptive Text Elements
Large blocks of inline text can make some forms difficult to use and is a complaint among users. It's possible to toggle the visibility of a descriptive text element, using a boolean custom field element positioned above the descriptive text. The boolean custom field then needs to be appropriately named and the visibility of the descriptive text made contingent on the state of the boolean element in the field properties section of the field editor. This is clunky to setup and the yes/no labelling of the boolean toggle means you have to name the boolean element. I'm envisaging either a descriptive text element (or a separate toggle-able element) where in addition to specifying the body text of the element you can assign it a display label (like a blueprint) that would appear above the body text with a visibility toggle icon (e.g. eye symbol or switch) alongside. Toggling the icon/switch would display or hide the body text.
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08 Sep, '21
Terry JuddIt's a bit easier to do this since you have been able to re-label blueprints when they are used within an event, but I agree that having to use a boolean switch element to achieve this is not an ideal workaround to start with. A disclosure triangle (or whatever they are called) would be a much better option an would work nicely, if as Claire suggests, the text block has a separate label.
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15 Sep, '21
Terry JuddOn a related note - having the ability to 'group' elements within a section of a form and then treat them as a block when determining their visibility could really simplify the creation of longer/more complex forms. The use of a label for the group in a similar way to that outlined above by Claire would be useful here as well and I'd anticipate that you could still control the visibility of individual elements within the group in the normal way.