Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

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Hi,

I have a form. In that i have a subform.

On the subform i have some Text fields and Rich Text Lite fields that need to be hidden if the value of Field A in form is “”.

I am using the hide when formula. All the text fields are hidden based on the formula, but the Rich Text Lite fields are not getting hidden. I am using the same hide when formula for Text fields and Rich Text Lite fields.

Am i doing something wrong.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Subject: Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

To hide a richtext (I presume richtext lite is the same for this), you need to use a computed subform, and use the formula @If(FieldA=“”;“”;“yourSubForm”).

But unfortunately this is calculated when the document opens. So if you change the value of your field the subform will not be calculated again…

Renaud

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Subject: Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

add a space before the Rich text field and it will work

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Subject: RE: Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

Thanks Savvas!!! That worked. I guess I have a simple RTF. Just one line. Amazing trick I never knew in all my years of doing this… lol

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Subject: RE: Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

The “add a space” trick is not a reliable method. It only works in trivial cases.

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Subject: RE: Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

That’s right, it will work only for the first line of the richtext ! For instance, if your enter two lines into the richtext the second line will not be hidden !!!

So don’t ever use this method.

Renaud

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Subject: RE: Hiding a Rich Text Lite Field

It worked for my case and it was a RT field which contains commnets + attachments. Maybe if it is more complicated case then may not work…