Workaround for excluded, but required fields in a form to prevent a validation error

If you publish a form with some required fields on a page, but intentionally have to exclude those fields for some reason, the form won't validate.

On the other hand, if you conditionally hide required fields, they are no longer required and will not throw a validation error. So here is a very simple workaround:

• Do not exclude these required fields, but include them.
• Add another non-required field and set it to hidden or admin only. Leave it empty.
• Add conditional logic to the required fields that hides them if the hidden/admin only field is empty.

Now the form will validate.