Visibility Condition

This feature uses MariaDB syntax

The Visibility Condition section of Custom Fields, UTA Standard Fields, Contact and Account Standard Fields and Submit Buttons allow you to use logical statements to determine whether a field is visible or not.

Note: Visibility Conditions take effect when the page is loaded. They will not run dynamically if the condition is based on the value in a field on the page. If you wish to change visibility of fields dynamically you should use the Show/Hide Header procedure.

Examples

To make the field visible after 06 February 2015.

now()>"2015-02-06"
  or
"@date(currentdate)@">"2015-02-06"

To make a Contact field visible only to the contact and to System Administrators (roleid 12345):

"@me.userid@"="@userid@" OR @me.inRole(System Administrator)@

To make a field visible to a role (inRole Reviewer):

@me.inRole(Reviewer)@

To hide a field from those in the role Reviewer

!@me.inRole(Reviewer)@

IMPORTANT: for a visibility condition based the startdate or enddate:

Use '@fullstartdate@' rather than '@startdate@'
Use '@fullenddate@' rather than '@enddate@'.

This will format the stored date as yyyy-mm-dd so it can be compared using < and >.

"@fullstartdate@" >= "2009-05-01"

To make the field visible only if the date in the field named Date Initiated is on or after 2014-01-31

"@Date initiated@" >= "2014-01-31"

To hide the field for new Level 1 records until they have been saved once

This should not be done with a Visibility Condition. Use the New Record Display setting

To make the field visible if the Template or Type is named Sample or Example

"@type@"="Sample" OR "@type@"="Example"

To make the field hidden for a user if they have a UTA Role of XYZ

INSTR("[#(?object=contact::criteria=rolename like 'XYZ')~userid~,#]","@me.userid@")=0

To make the field visible for a user whose parent company has Organization category 1234

"@me.parent.catlist@" like "%,1234,%"

To make the field visible only when the status is Draft or Open

 "@status@" in ('Draft','Open')

Note: The above Visibility Condition would only be used for Standard Fields. Custom Fields have a separate Status Field Permission section that can be used.

To make the field visible only when it contains a value.

 "@fieldname.length@"*1>0

Note: When used with Multiple Line Text fields that may contain double quotes, use "<ssEscape>@fieldname.value@</ssEscape>"!="" (See SSEscape for additional information.)

More Examples:

"@Destination City@"="Toronto"
"@Type@"!="Contract"

Note: remember to include the @fieldname@ in quotes.

Multiple Conditions

It is also possible to test multiple conditions:

For an OR condition use two pipes (|)

"@status@" = "Closed" || "@me.fullname@"="Jane Doe"

The above field will be visible either if the status of the record is Closed, OR if the user viewing the record is named John Doe.

For an AND condition use two ampersands (&)

"@status@" = "Closed" && "@me.fullname@"="John Doe"

The above field will be visible only if the status of the record is Closed AND the user viewing the record is named John Doe.

You can also use a combination of these, using brackets to control the order of validation:

( "@status@" = "Closed" || "@status@" = "Cancelled") && ("@me.fullname@"="John Doe" || "@me.fullname@"="John Deer" || "@me.fullname@"="Dear John")

The above field will be visible only if the status of the record is either Closed OR Cancelled, AND the user is one of the 3 named users.

Note

It is usually best practice to use double quotes (") around variables rather than single quotes ('). This is because single quotes are also apostrophes, so if the variable is processed and replaced with a term with an apostrophe it will close the statement and cause a server side error. (In principle the variable could also be replaced with text containing a double quote, also resulting in an error, but double quotes are less commonly stored.) (See SSEscape for additional information.)

Visibility Condition

Multiple Conditions

Note

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