I'd like to be able to update the "title" and "subtitle" fields so that when participants enter, these display as more specific titles. For example "title" would display as "pet name" and "subtitle" would display as "city." How can I do that?
You can not rename our default fields. But you could use our Request additional image uploader information feature which is available in the advanced step when creating a photo contest. All custom fields can be public or only visible to admins. If you make them public, the fields become visible in the description.
Is there a way to remove the title field as a required field? I removed it from displaying, but would like it to also not appear when participants submit their photos.
If you creating a file based voting then yes. In you previous post you are talking of »pet names« so I assume you are running something like Pet Photo Contest?
You can activate the option Hide file / image title in step 2 of the contest creator. This hides the input field for non admins in the submission form. You can test this if you visit the participant link. In the admin link you still can add a title.
Even when I use the Hide file / image title in step 2, adding a title is still a required field when I use the participant link. Is there a way around that?
Oh, I am very sorry. I was wrong. This only hides the title in the participant link. The name is still required in the form, you're right. But it get automatically filled with the file name. We need the title for many evaluation views.
But I will create a feature request for this and keep you updated here.
If you are able to create Custom CSS (Enterprise Plan needed) which is part of our themes you could hide the field with something like this:
.overlayContent input#option_content,
.overlayContent input#option_content + label {
display: none;
}
This way the field get automatically filled with the first selected image name, but the user will not see it.
Thank you so much!