Hiding form fields

[Peter Hawkey]

Hello,

Just started with the free trial period of Tap Forms and am enjoying using the app very much. My question though,

I am recording various items for my Wood Turning business and would like to hide some fields that are not always necessary to view – Wood blanks come in two main shapes: round or rectangular. When I select, for example, Rectangular from the drop down field (very easy to set up and use, thank you very much) I want the Diameter field to hide on my form, likewise if I select Round, I don’t need to see fields for Width and Length.

Is it possible to dynamically hide fields?

Many thanks

Peter

[Brendan]

Hi Peter,

Well, there is a hide field setting for a field, but it hides the field for every record.

One solution to the problem though is on the Mac version to create different layouts. With custom layouts you don’t have to have every field on every layout. So one layout can have the Diameter field and another layout can have the Width and Length fields.

Although you can control the hide field property using a script which can run when you select a value from a Pick List, scripts don’t run just by switching records, So even if the field was hidden when you selected a value, switching records wouldn’t automatically re-show that field if the next record had a different value from your Pick List.

So not exactly what you’re looking for here though.

Thanks,

Brendan

[Peter Hawkey]

Thank you Brendan,

Thanks very much for your answer. I’d wondered about using different layouts for the different shapes. There are other instances where I imagined hiding or showing different fields (whether a piece is for sale, sold, or donated etc.) but I wondered if using a multitude of different layouts would become clumsy. Is it possible to automatically move to another layout depending on the selection? I suppose the only way to find out is to try it.

Cheers

Peter

[Daniel Leu]

Automatically, no. But you could have a button that launches a script that selects the layout based on certain field values.

Cheers, Daniel

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[Peter Hawkey]

Thank you Daniel,

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