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HaydenMuhlHaydenMuhl 

Make certain fields invisible depending on value of picklist

I have an object called Trust. A Trust has one of two values: "Daily Valuation" or "Trust Accounting". Depending on which option is chosen I would like to display one group of fields or another.

Is this possible? Would this require Apex?

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aalbertaalbert

If you are looking to make different fields visible based off a picklist value (or similar), then yes, I think Visualforce and Apex will be required.

 

Using Visualforce, you can display the values, and when a user selects one, you can re-render different sections of the page (hide one section, display another). 

 

 

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shillyershillyer

You can do this with Record Types, depending on what the user selects, they will see a different layout of fields.

 

Hope that helps,

Sati
HaydenMuhlHaydenMuhl

It sounds like that would get the job done, but I don't know if that would necessarily be the right tool for this job. The fields I would like to display are only one section of a much larger object. Are there other options?

Message Edited by HaydenMuhl on 02-27-2009 02:51 PM
aalbertaalbert

If you are looking to make different fields visible based off a picklist value (or similar), then yes, I think Visualforce and Apex will be required.

 

Using Visualforce, you can display the values, and when a user selects one, you can re-render different sections of the page (hide one section, display another). 

 

 

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HaydenMuhlHaydenMuhl
Perfect.  I will look into that.
JasonGablerJasonGabler
Note that while this solution is correct, this is only true if you completely replace an edit form with a full Visualforce page.  Currently you cannot embed a Visualforce page into a standard page layout.  So if you want to put this sort of hide-if dependency on one, single field, you have to reinvent the entire form in Visualforce.  Bleh.
Message Edited by JasonGabler on 12-15-2009 11:58 AM