I have a field (TMAFA) with a dialog list of 4 options–Baby and the three listed below. I want the four related paragraphs to be hidden unless one is chosen. For the first one I choose baby and then use the following formula in the Hide Paragraph if true box:@If(TMAFA="Team Member Illness/Injury;
Team Member Family Death;
Team Member Death")
I can not get the paragraphs to hide and am not sure what I am doing wrong
Subject: Hide Paragraph
For each paragraph use a ‘not’ situation - yeah, I know negative logic isn’t cool, but it’s shorter this way.To hide baby para, the hide when formula could be:
!TMAFA = “Baby”
To hide Team Member Illness/Injury para, the hide when formula could be:
!TMFA =“Team Member Illness/Injury”
and so forth.
Subject: RE: Hide Paragraph
This worked, thank you. One more question. I choose the situation I want, but can not get the corresponding paragraph to appear unless I hit the refresh key. Is there an easy way (I’m sure there is!) to make the paragraph appear after choosing the situation?
Subject: RE: Hide Paragraph
Yes, there is!
Go to the field properties of the field TMAFA. On the second tab, check the option “Refresh fields on keyword change”. With this option checked all hide when formulas will be recalculated each time you change the field value.
Subject: Hide Paragraph
you don’t need to use an IF statement in a hide/when formula. The hide/when simply obeys a true result so if you want to hide the paragraph if the field contains a certain value you would just write it like this:
TMAFA = “Team Member Illness/Injury”
From your explanation I don’t know why you are including the other 2 items. Explain in more detail what you want/expect to happen.
Subject: RE: Hide Paragraph
Thank you for your help. I have one form for 4 different scenarios:
Baby
Illness/injury
Death of family
Team Member death
HR wants to open the page and have it blank, pick one of the 4 items and have the corresponding paragraph appear to have the items input. When looking at the form, only the applicable section will be visible.
Subject: RE: Hide Paragraph
Each paragraph must be addressed independently. A different hide-when formula must be used for each paragraph. Using the not (!) symbol allows a simple hide-when formula for each paragraph. If you don’t set a default value for your list, then using this method will hide all of the paragraphs until something is chosen.
Subject: RE: Hide Paragraph
Laura,
Do the fields you want to hide/show are text or richtext fields ?
If the fields are Richtext, there is a little gotcha with those fields…
To have a richtext obey a hide/when formula, just add a space before the field, then add the hide/when formula and it should work…
Richtext are a bit special… ;-)))
Hope this helps
Renaud
Subject: Hide rich text – NO!
Renard, please read this: Rich Text field hiding Technote.
Subject: RE: Hide rich text – NO!
You’re right. I forgot the paragraphs problems after you inserted text into the richtext…
Shame on me ! 
Renaud
P.S. By the way, my first name is renaud not renard … But no offense taken !