Hide results and comments in a section

By default, Cocoriko shows live results: after voting, a participant sees the votes of everyone who answered before them, along with their comments. You can hide these results and comments, one section at a time. With the Hide results and comments option, you can:

• keep early answers from influencing later ones;
• protect sensitive sections, such as market research or demographic questions, while keeping the other sections transparent.

In this article

• Hide the results of a section
• What participants see
• View the results and comments
• Keep live results and make comments anonymous
• Troubleshooting

Hide the results of a section

1. Click Consultations in the left menu, then open your consultation.
2. Open the Sections tab, then click the section you want to change.
3. Open the Options tab.
4. Turn on Hide results and comments.
5. Click Save.

Repeat these steps for each section whose results you want to hide. To show them again, turn the option off, then click Save.

What participants see

• After voting, participants see only their own answer, without other participants' results.
• Other participants' comments aren't shown, and the Comments button disappears from the section's forms.
• Participants can still write a comment after voting, under Please leave a comment, if comments are enabled on the form. The comment is saved, but other participants don't see it. You can read it in the Analyze menu.
• Results stay hidden even after the consultation ends.
• Other sections don't change: their results and comments stay visible.

View the results and comments

The option only changes what participants see. All votes and comments in the section are saved and counted. You can view them in your consultation's Analyze menu, as for any other section.

Keep live results and make comments anonymous

If you want to keep results and comments visible, but without the names of the people who wrote them, leave the option off and make comments anonymous instead:

1. Open your consultation, then the Options tab.
2. Turn on Anonymous comments for this consultation.
3. Click Save.

This setting applies to the whole consultation, not to a single section.

Troubleshooting

Participants still see the results.
The option applies one section at a time. Check that it's turned on in each section concerned and that you clicked Save. Participants who already had the page open need to refresh it.

I want to hide the results but keep comments visible.
The option always hides both. To keep comments visible, leave results showing in that section, or make comments anonymous (see above).

I don't want to receive comments in this section.
Turn off comments on each form in the section: open the form, then the General Information tab, and turn off Comments enabled at the bottom of the page. Then click Save.

Need help? Write to us at support@cocoriko.org.