Hiding fields in a form

hiding fields in a Form is called what? How do I go about hiding fields in a form than having a button the user can click on to make the fields visible to fill out? Thanks Nick

The "presence" property controls the visibility of form elements.
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Hi Experts,
I have following requirement for hiding fields in my form.
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any code will be helpful.
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Hi sushmita,
Thanks for ur reply.
The solution which you have given i have already tried but not working.
my requirement is like MGR or HR can initiate the process.
if only MGR intiates the process the solution which u have given will work.
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I have some fields in my form that i want to hide. I added in some javascript into the button-click event. When previewing in the Adobe LiveCycle Designer, the fields are hidden successfully,but when i press F8 button the fields are not able to hide.
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Hi,
you can use as below,
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Hi Experts,
I am hiding a field in PDF form.
But the problem is , form reserving space for that field after field hidden.
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regards,
subba
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Original Thread:
hiding fields in a bsp...
What Kevin is talking about, is some special development we did for HR eRecruitement. Well, let us turn it around. They helped us, and we returned the favour. And yes, this is actually some of the more interesting bits and pieces of BSP. (Fresh meat to discuss:).
Effectively, the <phtmlb:formLayout> has two functionalities. The first is a very easy way to layout a form. The second is a way via customization to dynamically have customers overwrite the visibility/required property of each field. So the SAP puts the maximum number of fields into the formlayout, and the customer can then via customization remove some, flag some as required, etc.
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Also the example shows the effect of using an XML bee to dynamically add entries into the fieldLayout (if the application added these hooks).
brian

Hallo Thomas,
No, unfortunately we never build something to also customize the labels. They HR colleagues did not ask for this :).
I first started to write you here a loong text with answers. But then I got lazy, and searched my archive mailbox. Here below is the draft input that I wrote initially for the documentation. It describes everything pretty good. (But it is draft document, never proofread again, so read it lightly!)
bye, brian
Why?
Typically when an application is developed at SAP, the developer must make provision for all possible fields of information that must be displayed and/or queried from the user. However, in specific business cases, or depending on specific country laws, all fields might not be required. Also in some cases, fields in one scenario can be flagged required, versus in another they are only optional.
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What?
For each field, a default behaviour is assumed. This is the behaviour that is defined by the developer during development time. For example, it could be specified that email address must be required. During the runtime it is now possible to overwrite the default behaviour with a customization entry for the field.
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As Defined: The formLayoutItem in displayed as it has been defined during development.
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Hidden: In this case, the formLayoutItem is placed on the formLayout, but not displayed. The item reserves its slot, and an empty slot will be displayed. However, after all items have been placed on the formLayout, a row "compression" is done, whereby all rows that contain only hidden elements are removed. Hidden is important for cases where columns next to one another must align. A typical example would be name & surname horizontally aligned. If now one item is invisible before this row, the two items will not be aligned anymore. With hidden, this alignment will be kept, and we still have the benefit of empty rows been removed.
Required: Sets the required flag for the item. Label of item will be rendered an indication that it is required (usually little red asterix after the label).
Optional: Can be used to customize a required field to be not required.
Read Only: Field value is only displayed.
What is index?
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Tables
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COMPONENT This is software component to which development applies, for example SAP_BASIS for all BSP development work done by us.
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NS_APPL_PAGE see above
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hi,
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