Hide-When Oddity

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Hello,

I have the following hide-when formula in a hotspot button,

user := @Name([CN]; @UserName);

@If(user = “Johnny Smith” : “Freddy Jones” : “Murray Ellersley” ; @False; @True)

Jonny and Freddy are able to see the button which is what I want. Yet Murray cannot see the button. What are some possible troubleshooting methods I can do to try and get Murray to see the button?

Thanks!

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Subject: Hide-When Oddity- try this

User:= “Johnny Smith” : “Freddy Jones” : “Murray Ellersley”;@IsNotMember(User;@Name([CN];@UserName))

Try this and see if it works in your Hide/When

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Subject: Hide-When Oddity

Thank you both, greatly! I’ll give it a whirl.

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Subject: Hide-When Oddity

I would suggest a couple of things. First, always make sure that you are comparing the same case. While the LotusScript language is case-insensitive for the most part, comparison operations are usually not. Also, you might want to use a trim function to ensure there are no leading/trailing spaces. You could code something like this:

user := @lowercase(@trim(@Name([CN]; @UserName)));

@If(user = "johnny smith" : "freddy jones" : "murray ellersley" ; @False; @True)

The @username function should have returned a single text value, but be careful when using this type of compare operation on text strings. If you are comparing a temporary variable that is a text list to another text list, the results might not always be what you expect. In some cases you might want to use the “permutation operator” for an equality comparison( “*=” instead of just “=” ).

You could also use the @IsMember function instead of an equality comparison.