Automatically hide fields

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I am having one form ie. customer form, I need to hide the 2 fields like dob and email id from basic user automatically , like we can keep showwhen condition in the form itself but it is manual process , need to do automatically .. is there any way to do this? in appian

Mathieu Drouin · Answer

Can't you just check if the user is an admin or not in the showWhen? 
 You can make use of the property 'userTypeId' in the 'user' function to differentiate the Basic User and System Admin (The output will be 1 for System Admin and 0 for Basic User).

Harsha Sharma · Answer

Not sure what do you mean by showwhen is manual process! If you configure showwhen using user groups like if user is in basic user it evaluates to false and true otherwise then system can dynamically and automatically handle this.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

What makes you say it's "a manual process"? The ShowWhen parameter is expressionable . Meaning, you can use literally any evaluation logic in the entire Appian library of expression functions and associated expression logic, to evaluate the showWhen for any or every given field. 
 In your case it seems like you would merely need to check the current user's group membership. Surely you know how you would check a user's group membership if you've taken and passed the Senior Certification exam...?

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