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

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

mikec — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:44:18 GMT

Cool. I'll take a look. Thanks!

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

Ray Croxon — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 04:53:04 GMT

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.

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

mikec — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:22:19 GMT

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.

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

Ray Croxon — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:31:51 GMT

That should be ascii characters

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

Ray Croxon — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:52:43 GMT

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

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

Eduardo Fuentes — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:16:34 GMT

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.

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

Eduardo Fuentes — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 04:06:59 GMT

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

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

mikec — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:09:22 GMT

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

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

Ray Croxon — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:18:05 GMT

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.

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

Eduardo Fuentes — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:59:49 GMT

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