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Trying to rename the OOB "Variable" text in the Questionnaire activity in the Playbook

folusho
Tera Guru

3 weeks ago

I am working on customizing the Playbook Experience interface (Next Experience Framework) and am trying to rename or remove the out-of-the-box "Variables" section heading that appears inside a Questionnaire card component (see attached image).

 

  1. Is there a configuration within Process Automation Designer (PAD) for the Questionnaire Activity definition that allows us to suppress or replace this header?

  2. If anyone has achieved this via a custom override or Workspace configuration, could you share the steps?

Any insight or workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

 

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Vikram Reddy
Tera Guru

2 weeks ago

Hi @folusho,

 

This exact "Variables" heading question comes up regularly on the Community board, so you're not alone here, and it's worth checking your PAD config against the actual UI Layout options before assuming there's a hidden override somewhere:

Questionnaire activity properties - UI Layout tab
tagline: Questionnaire
title: This activity > Label
description: (rich text, optional)
footer: (optional)

That's the full field set PAD exposes for a Questionnaire card's header, confirmed against your second screenshot. There's no section-heading or label-override field in there, and that's the tell: "Variables" isn't a PAD label at all, it's a rendering artifact coming from the component itself, not from anything in the activity definition.

Your first screenshot shows exactly the trigger condition: Game and Sports both sitting under one form section. Playbook Experience Components had a bug where the section heading rendered even when an activity had only a single form section. That's been fixed: section headings are now suppressed for single-section activities, and for multi-section activities only the first heading is hidden while later ones still show. There's a Community thread on this precise symptom where that exact release-note wording is quoted as the accepted answer.

  1. Update the Playbook Experience Components store app to the latest version, that's where the fix shipped.
  2. Re-test the Questionnaire card, on a single-section activity "Variables" should just disappear.
  3. If you have multiple sections, expect the first heading suppressed and the rest still visible, that's by design post-fix, not something to chase further.
  4. Skip cloning or overriding the Questionnaire card component to strip the label. Next Experience Framework components aren't meant to be forked for a cosmetic fix, you'd be maintaining that fork against every future store app update.

Community thread with the confirmed root cause and fix: Questionnaire - why do I see a header of Variables.

 

Thank you,
Vikram Karety
Octigo Solutions INC