how to conditionally hide a data page element

[Chuck]

I want to make a datapage element be visible or hidden depending on the value of another datapage element.  How to do?

 

[Ariel]

Hi Chuck, you may want to look into Conditional Forms: http://howto.caspio.com/datapages/forms/conditional-forms/

Ariel

[ray]

Hi Ariel. The Conditional Forms help page does suggest that you can conditionally show a field if it is initially hidden by some condition. I have tried this but cannot get a "Show" option in the Rules Action dropdown for a section or field. Hide seems to be the only choice and once you specify an action for a particular field you can't make a new rule for that field...

[Ariel]

Hi Ray, you can apply some reverse logic to set up this Rule since there's no Show option in Caspio. For example

 

If FieldName1 Not Equal to "ABC" then make FieldName2 Hidden

 

This would essentially be the same as  

 

If FieldName1 Equals to "ABC" then SHOW FieldName2

 

To be able to use the field more than once in the Actions you need to put it into a separate section. You can then refer once to the Field and once to the Section that holds it (so 2 Actions)

 

Hope this helps.

Ariel.