@ThisValue and @GetField in hide when

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Is it possible to use @ThisName and @Getfield in a hide when formula.

I have a checkbox field that is named S1, I have the refresh attributes turned on.

I have another checkbox field that is named S1_a…

I want S1_a hidden if S1 = “”…

So I wrote the following hide when formula:

fName := @Word(@ThisName;“_”;1);

@GetField(fName) = “”

My S1_a field stays hidden even if I select a value for S1…

I changed the hide when to be

S1 = “”

and it worked fine…

I put a prompt in the translation formula, and @Left(@thisName;“_”;1) resolved to S1…

So basically @getfield(“S1”) = “” is what @getfield(fName) resolved to…

so, I thought it would work…

I want to use the same hide when formula for various fields throughout my form.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help you may share with me.

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Subject: @ThisValue and @GetField in hide when

@ThisName cannot be used outside a field formula. If so always returns null. So @GetField(this nullvalue) always returns null which makes your field always hidden.

Why to complicate things, you can use directly S1= “” as you did for that field hide when. Similarly you can proceed to other fields too. Use trim too as —> @Trim(S1) = “”

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Subject: RE: @ThisValue and @GetField in hide when

because the field name is going to change…may be s10 and s10_a

s3 and s3_a…

That is why… i wanted to copy the same formula w/out having to modify it…

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Subject: Hide-when formulas don’t apply to fields but…

to the paragraph the fields lives in…

This can be confusing because you can get to the hide-when formula when you’ve selected a field.

For hide-when formulas, you’ll have to edit each in turn.

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Subject: RE: Hide-when formulas don’t apply to fields but…

Thanks… I see that now… so the @thisname doesn’t have a value cause @thisname has to used in a field formula.

Thanks…