I have two Notes clients 5.0.12 and 6.5.2. I have a field on a document with a simple hide formula that hide the field if its empty. The field is showing up correctly in 5 but in six the field is not visable. Has anyone seen this problem?
Subject: Hide works in 5 but not in 6
if its rich text field - they are never completely empty in Notes
if its not, there may be extraneous tags after a delete
in either case, create a hidden text field that is computed to the value of the problem field - and then perform the hide-when based on the value of the hidden field
Subject: Hide works in 5 but not in 6
Nope, haven’t seen that before. It might help to post this “simple hide formula”, so we can see if that’s the problem.
Subject: RE: Hide works in 5 but not in 6
When I said simple I ment simple. Hide When…
field = “”
Subject: RE: Hide works in 5 but not in 6
What data type is the field? Is it text or perhaps rich text? Rob
Subject: RE: Hide works in 5 but not in 6
Fiel is type Names. There is a value in the field, I can see the value when I bring up the document properties is 5 and 6.
Subject: RE: Hide works in 5 but not in 6
I don’t know any reason this shouldn’t work the same way. Are you sure the version is the only difference? Are we talking about the same document in the same replica of the database?
Incidentally, the hide formula you gave is not quite correct – it can evaluate to True if the field is non-blank, if it is a multivalue field that contains at least one blank value. E.g.:
“Ed” : “Herman” : “Gloria” : “” would be hidden because the value “” is present in the list.
Instead, use:
!(Field1 != “”)
which is also more efficient for a multivalued field.
If that’s not it: is this by any chance a computed or computed for display field that doesn’t have a value initially? I wonder whether there might be some difference in when the hide formula is evaluated. If you press F9, does the field reappear?