Programatically controlling collapsible Sections ?

pauls985 over 8 years ago

Is it possible to control whether a section is collapsed or not dependent on an input ?
For instance I have a form that is displaying some summary data that is view able to all. I have two groups of data, one for users and one for managers that are presented in a section each.
I'd like to on loading the form, only have the relevant section open .. i.e if a manager views it, the user data is collapsed and the manager data open.
I'm guessing the alternative is to just use some radio buttons on the form and display the fields dependent on the value of the button, but that means I lose all the section goodness :(

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0 PhilB
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over 8 years ago

There's an isInitiallyCollapsed property that you could set which might help? It's only available on some of the more recent versions of Appian, though.
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0 Josh
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over 8 years ago

This should be possible. Attached is an example of this, you would put your "is user a manager" logic into the local!collapsibleSection variable.
collapsible.txt
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0 Josh
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over 8 years ago

Misread the question! Thought you meant the ability to collapse vs already collapsed.
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0 Josh
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over 8 years ago

I just tested this quickly. It looks like you can pass a variable to the isInitiallyCollapsed property but it doesn't behave properly when hitting "Test" in the interface designer. In Tempo (Reports/Tasks/etc) it works just fine.
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0 PhilB
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over 8 years ago

Yeah that's a good point - the interface designer doesn't work correctly on that one!
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0 bhanuprakashm over 8 years ago

@pauls985, yes it is possible.
By maintain rule input (ri!) based on logged in user in the interface
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0 ayishabanum1 over 8 years ago

Have one ri! of Boolean type , set value for it based on logged in user , (manager or user ) in interface . Try this ..it may work
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0 Raviteja Varma Jampana
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over 8 years ago

I think you are looking for ability to save something when someone click on collapse or open section events. That is not possible as of now. If you are looking to show something by default on page load as others suggested it is possible by rule inputs or identifying logged-in users and checking whether he is member of group or not.
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