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Automatically hide fields

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
May 17, 2025
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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

stefanhelzle0001

What exactly is your question?

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laxmipavanik0001Author

Hi [mention:a11f77a729fb4db2af76b09948583328:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] ,

I have a customer form with fields for name, address, date of birth, and email. When a customer support executive fills out this form, I want the date of birth and email fields to be automatically hidden. How can I achieve this?

stefanhelzle0001

You already mentioned the showWhen parameter. So, what exactly are you looking for? And you have an Appian Senior Certification!

davidj137213

You should use a variable for checking if the controls must be shown or not. And use it for display or not the control using showhen property

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laxmipavanik0001Author

Hi [mention:d173d3118db546878c1f717bfba87080:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05] ,

if we configure like this, then it is a manual process...
I need to do it automatically via records , is there any way to do this...

davidj137213

It's not a manual process... after integration execution, check response.... If contains any error, set that variable to false, otherwise, set it to true.

Place that variable in showhen property... and it will work without any manual interaction...

For example

showWhen: or(
local!selectedDate=today(),
local!selectedDate=today()+5
)

mathieud0001

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).

harshas2775

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.

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