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Hi there and thanks for creating this software

I am currently looking into open source application management systems and stumbled upon your solution. After searching through the documentation i didn't find a way to create anonymous applications, where applicants do not have to enter parameters like name and gender.

If i just didn't find it, it would be really cool to document it more otherwise i would ask to implement that feature

This looks interesting! Does your system support completely anonymized applications? I remember previously needing this feature. We solved it by generating unique, non-identifiable IDs and skipping personal questions entirely. Has anyone tried a similar workaround here? Looking forward to using the pacman 30th anniversary edition for inspiration.

At the moment, the system doesn’t support fully anonymous applications out of the box. By default, applicants are required to provide basic personal fields such as name (and other profile details), since these are tied to the core application and review workflow.

That said, there are a couple of possible workarounds:

You can make certain fields optional or remove them by customizing the application form and validation rules.

Another option is to allow applicants to use pseudonyms or autogenerated IDs instead of real names.

For stricter anonymity, the code would need a small customization so reviewers only see anonymized fields while the backend still stores minimal identifiers.