Wishlist: Conditional visibility of Separator rows

pbrad

Hi,
I continually run into situations where I would like to conditionally hide a section of a form based on certain criteria. An excellent way to do this would be to place the desired fields between two separator rows and then conditionally hide the first separator and the fields contained within it using the same function as "Not present when (if left blank section is always present)" that is found within Form Sections (tabs).

Right now I have to resort to using tabs and hiding tabs but it would often be better to hide portions of a form section. Is there any chance that this might become a reality at some point?

Cheers,
Pete

tford

That would be a GREAT feature, Pete!

ACDC

yes please

pbrad

Not sure how difficult this may be to implement so another option might be to provide the conditional visibility functionality at a row level or at an attribute level within each form as a possible alternative?

Cheers,
Pete

aware_support

The standard approach to this would be to use READ PROTECT rules to conditionally hide attributes. Why not use it?

ab042

I agree we could use a feature like this as well.

For example: You have a form that ask FORM OF PAYMENT: "Credit Card", "Paypal" or "Send me an Invoice".

Based on the Form of Payment display different for section with different questions and do not display the attributes that do not apply and do not take up form space for unnecessary attributes even if they are hidden.

Would make the form much cleaner.

pbrad

Hi,
Wrt comment about READ_PROTECT, this operates at a Business Object level, not a form level and is often too wide sweeping in it's deployment. We really need some way to conditionally hide specific sections of a particular form, not all forms at the same time.

Thanks,
Pete

ab042

Support:

Conditionally hiding a form section would be very helpful.

Can you please comment on the possibility and a time frame if any?

Thanks

aware_support

We'll try to incorporate this into the next minor release that will be out soon. This release will be also be using the latest Java technology and our tests indicate that it is quite a bit faster.

ab042

Support:

I didn't see anything in the change log for the 5.1a release.
Any updates on the ability to conditional show entire sections on forms?

Thanks

aware_support

This feature didn't make it in 5.1a yet, which is not a minor release.

aware_support

The feature has been implemented in build 1451

pbrad

Many thanks! It works like a charm.
Cheers,
Pete

tford

This is going to really be helpful! Thanks!

nlarson

very cool!