In SAP Ariba, visibility conditions are the designated feature for controlling the display of content within a single survey or questionnaire based on participant attributes. You can configure a rule on each specific question or section to make it visible only to certain participants. For this scenario, a condition can be set based on the user's organization type (e.g., 'Internal' vs. 'Supplier'). This allows a single survey to dynamically adapt its content for different audiences, ensuring that internal participants and suppliers see only the questions relevant to them, thereby meeting the requirement efficiently.

A. Create internal and external surveys. This is inefficient, creates administrative overhead for managing two separate surveys, and complicates the process of consolidating and analyzing the results.

B. Invite all participants to the event and edit each section that needs to be restricted. This is not a standard or scalable method. The control is not a manual edit but a pre-configured rule (condition) within the survey template.

C. Set up access controls on the content to restrict visibility. Access controls in SAP Ariba typically manage permissions at the project or document level (who can access the entire survey), not for individual questions within it.

1. SAP Ariba Help Portal - Creating questions and requirements in a questionnaire: This official guide details the configuration of questionnaires. It explicitly describes the use of visibility conditions. It states, "You can set a condition on a question or requirement to control whether it is visible to participants... Conditions can be based on a participant's answer to a previous question or on project, user, or organization fields." This directly supports using user fields (like organization type) to control visibility. (Accessed via the SAP Help Portal for SAP Ariba Supplier Management solutions).

2. SAP Ariba Help Portal - Common Tasks for Managing Templates: The documentation on template management emphasizes creating dynamic and reusable templates. It explains that conditions are a key feature for making template documents, such as surveys, adaptable to different scenarios and participants without creating multiple versions. This supports the principle behind using a single survey with conditions. (Accessed via the SAP Help Portal for SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Management).