Hide/When Question?

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Hiya

I’m currently encountering some problems with getting my status to work properly and also the hide/when options for these action buttons.

I have several views that require a user to change the status of something every now and then.

PROBLEM ONE - Hide/When:

For instance if a field in a view has a status of ‘Complete’ then the ‘Incomplete’ button should be present only. So in this case the formula used to hide the ‘Complete’ button and display the ‘Incomplete’ button should be: -

Complete action button = Status = “Incomplete”

Incomplete action button = Status = “Complete”

Am I right??

If so…this doesnt appear to hide any of the action buttons according to the status…

At the moment I have got the hide/when as…

Complete action button = Status != “Incomplete”

Incomplete action button = Status = “Incomplete”.

This sort of displays the actions buttons according to the status within the view…however after if i change the status of a field from ‘Incomplete’ to ‘Complete’ then back to ‘Incomplete’ the ‘Complete’ button stops showing…!

PROBLEM TWO: Buttons stop appearing…

As I already mentioned… if I change the status of a field from a view from ‘Incomplete’ to ‘Complete’, then back to ‘Incomplete’…the ‘Complete’ action button stops appearing for that particular field which i dont understand… - any ideas?

Hope that makes sense…

Can anyone shed some light??

Thanks

Gem

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Subject: Hide/When Question?

Do a view refresh at the end of the button code if it is an action button. (incomplete/complete buttons)

If it is a button on a form, then select refresh feilds on keyword change as suggested by another member.

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Subject: Hide/When Question?

You’ve shown us the hide-when formulas, but not the actual formulas for the buttons. What do those look like? Have you checked very carefully for spelling errors?

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Subject: RE: Hide/When Question?

Hi, yeah I’ve checked for spelling errors.

Here is an example of the button code: -

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim session As New NotesSession

Dim db As NotesDatabase

Dim collection As NotesDocumentCollection

Dim doc As NotesDocument

Set db = session.CurrentDatabase

Set collection = db.UnprocessedDocuments

Set doc = collection.GetFirstDocument()

While Not(doc Is Nothing)

	If doc.status(0) <> "Complete " Then

		doc.Status ="Complete"		

		doc.CompletedDate  = Now

	End If

	Call doc.Save( False, True )

	Set doc = collection.GetNextDocument(doc)

Wend

End Sub

Ive basically used the same code for the incomplete button and changed the words complete to incomplete…

Thanks

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Subject: RE: Hide/When Question?

At least, this piece of code does contain a spelling error …

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Subject: RE: Hide/When Question?

on button in compete you write as!status=“Incomplete”

on complete button you write as !status=“Complete”

and go to that status field and go to second tab of that field and enable all properties thats it

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Subject: RE: Hide/When Question?

If this is an actual cut and paste from your code, there appears to be an extra space at the end of the first "Complete ".

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Subject: Hide/When Question?

Did you indicate that the field that produces the condition has “Refresh fields on keyword change” set?

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Subject: RE: Hide/When Question?

Sorry, dont mean to sound thick but where do i find this? In the form properties? - Im not use to notes much…

Thanks,

gem