Hide/Show Fields on Add Record

[aduff]

Hi.
How can I show a hidden field (hidden in detail view (add record)) called 'text' when check box "show_text" has been clicked.

i.e. When adding a record in table_b I want the 'text' field hidden and only shown when "show_text" had been checked.
I also want the text field shown in detail view and table view if checked.

I have checked the forums with similar questions suggesting to add Java code to the 'tablename'-dv.js file in the hooks folder.

I've tried the below code with various alterations but to no avail... please note I don't know how to use Java.

/* hide unhide fields */
$j(function() {
if ($j("input#show_text").click(":checked")) {
$j("label[for='text']").show();}
})

[pbottcher]

Hi,

how do you hide the field in detail view?

For your function, use

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$j("#show_text").on('change', function () {  
// if you want to show only the label
if ($(this).is(':checked')) {
  $j("label[for='text']").show();
}
else {
  $j("label[for='text']").hide();
}
})

[aduff]

Hi pbottcher.

Thank you for a quick reply.

I have tried this in the <tablename>-dv.js file but does not show the field when 'show_text' is checked.

When I add a record and then check 'show_text' I want to see the 'text' field otherwise hide.

I only want to see the 'text' field in detail view and table view if 'show_text' is checked.

Thank you in advance.

[pbottcher]

Hi,
you did not answer the question.

how do you hide the field in detail view?

[aduff]

Hi.

Sorry, I did not answer...

I have initially hidden the field in Appgini so that it does not show on add record.

[pbottcher]

Hi,

if you use this feature, it is not possible to show the field, as the generated code will not have this field in the DV anymore.

So if you want to implement such a feature, you need to uncheck this feature and hide the field via JS through the hooks files, depending on your workflow.

[aduff]

Hi.

I have unticked the [ ]Hide in details view but the text box is still showing when I click add record.

So if I tick whilst in add record screen it should show and untick it should be hidden, can this be done with the code in the dv.js file?

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$j("#show_text").on('change', function () {  
// if you want to show only the label
if ($(this).is(':checked')) {
  $j("label[for='text']").show();
}
else {
  $j("label[for='text']").hide();
}
})

[pbottcher]

Hi,

add a

$j("#show_text").parents('.form-group').hide();

at the beginning, before the

$j("#show_text").on('change', function () {
....

Also I would expect that

$j("label[for='text']").show(); $j("label[for='text']").hide();

will only hide the label, but not the text.

try rather:

$j("label[for='text']").parent('.form-group').show(); $j("label[for='text']").parent('.form-group').hide();

[aduff]

Hi,

I have amended the code and now it is working!

However, after saving the record and then clicking on the record again the text field is hidden so to see the text I have to uncheck and then check the 'Show_text' field.

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$j("#text").parents('.form-group').hide();
$j("#show_text").on('change', function () {  
// if you want to show only the label
if ($j(this).is(':checked')) { 
	$j("label[for='text']").parent('.form-group').show();
}
else {
	$j("label[for='text']").parent('.form-group').hide();
}
});  

[pbottcher]

Hi,

this is obvious, as you need to check of course the actual status of the field when the DV is opend.

So try

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if (!$j("#text").is('checked')) {
 $j("#text").parents('.form-group').hide();
}

[aduff]

Hi.

I added the code to the beginning of the DV file but the '#text' field is still not visible when '#show_text' is checked.

I thought the 1st line should be '#show_text' so I tried this too but this did not work either.

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if (!$j("#text").is('checked')) {
	$j("#text").parents('.form-group').hide();
}
	 
$j("#show_text").on('change', function () {  
// if you want to show only the label
if ($j(this).is(':checked')) { 
	$j("label[for='text']").parent('.form-group').show();
}
else {
	$j("label[for='text']").parent('.form-group').hide();
}
});  

[pbottcher]

Hi,

true, of course it needs to be show_text. Aslo I missed to put the :, so please change it to

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if (!$j("#show_text").is(':checked')) {

[aduff]

Excellent.

All works as expected, thank you so much for your time.