NTWS 4.42 Hidie condition

[Rene Simons]

Hi,

When I use a condition to hide a field, I put in a Hide condition.
When the hide condition is TRUE, the field AND prompt are hidden.
When the hide condition is FALSE, the field is shown and the Prompt is still hidden.
Is this intentional? This puzzles me.
Is this solvable??Because when the field is shown, I need the prompt to show as well.

Kind rergards,
Rene



 

[kevin plummer]

I came across that same problem the other day as well - I ended up making them read only.

[Bruce]

Hi Rene,

Yes it's solvable - because you're doing it wrong 

This explanation contains two fields, which I'll call Gender and Age.
As you know it's impolite to ask a lady her age, so when the Gender field is set to 'F' the Age field is hidden.

So, the Hide Condition for Age is
p_web.GSV('Gender') = 'F'

Right, so far, so good, nothing new.

Also on the Gender field, Client Side tab, you've added "Age" as a Reset field.

BUT - when adding that reset you'll notice there are 3 checkboxes. To reset the Prompt, Value and Comment.
When you're doing a normal reset, then you only need to reset the Value. But when you're doing a Hide / Unhide
kind of reset you should check on all 3.

In your case you have Value ticked on, but not Prompt or Comment - hence Prompt and Comment are not reset (ie hidden).

Capiche?

Cheers
Bruce

PS: That'll teach you to Ask won't it Kevin

[Rene Simons]

Ok Thanks,

I allways thought those checkboxes were there to make the window look more interesting.

Rene