Allow Section to be collapsed and Collapsed by default are now choices in the fo

That feature is not available on Tempo Forms nor SAIL Forms. You cannot collapse sections yet.

This can be done as a workaround on SAIL by conditioning the display of the section based on a local variable. A link field can be used to populate that variable.

Ray, can you possibly provide an example of how you accomplished this? It would be much appreciated!!

Per the relaese notes of Appian 7.7 this is now available in the product forum.appian.com/.../Appian_Release_Notes.html:

"Designers can now mark a SAIL section as being collapsible by an end user."

More information at: forum.appian.com/.../SAIL_Components.html

Just keep in mind that isCollapsible flag only determines whether the section is collapsible or not, and has nothing to do with whether the section will be collapsed by default or not; which doesn't seem to be an available feature yet.

Hi Mike, I've added the code I was referring to.
I'm using a link field to set a dynamic variable in the form, this dynamic variable is used to condition what is displayed in the link field, and to show/hide the section below it.
In my example it is set to false in the load statement, so the section is collapsed by default.
You can of course use ask characters or images rather than text in the link.

hidesectionSAIL.txt

That should be ascii characters

Hey Ray, this is pretty cool. My only question to you and I tried to do this with your code; can you configure it so that the Section has a label and that the CONTENTS of the section is what is collapsed? My use case requires that the section header be visible and the contents to be collapsed. Like I said I tried to move around your If statement but to no avail.

Hi Mike,

You can do this. It is easier to show or display a section as a whole because you can wrap that into one if statement. If you wanted to show the heading this way, you'd need an if statement around each field . So effectively you would show the section but hide each field.
There are a couple of better ways you could handle this.
Firstly instead of showing nothing, when the boolean is false, you could show an empty section with just a heading (defined seperately), then show the full section for true().
Secondly you could turn the show hide link, into a Rich Text field that looks like a column heading, and use a link inside the a!richTextItem, function, to determine if the section is shown.

Cool. I'll take a look. Thanks!