does setVisible work with replicants & containers?

obradoa

I have been unable to hide replicants or containers by using functions from FormAPI. It works for regular items, but as soon as I use containers or replicants, the function does not work. How can I hide replicants and containers by using FormAPI?

Thanks!

Replicant that I am trying to hide:
<item name="TestItem" pathid="TestItem">
<replicant name="repTestItem" pathid="repTestItem" min="0" max="50" >
<item name="Test_Link_Name" pathid="Test_Link_Name">
<label>Test Link Name</label>
<text size="30" maxlength="100"/>
</item>
</replicant>
</item>

Function from FormsAPI documentation:

function setItemStatus(item,status){
item.setVisible(status);
item.setRequired(status);
//If we're hiding this item and making it optional,clear
//its value.This prevents irrelevant data from being saved
//in the DCR,and avoids validation errors in hidden fields.
if (!status){
item.setValue("");
}
}

I am calling this function like this:

setItemStatus (IWDatacapture.getItem("/Description"),false); //works for a regular item that is not replicant
setItemStatus (IWDatacapture.getItem("/TestItem"),false); //does not work for replicants


Thanks!

Adam Stoller

I believe you can only hide containers - not replicants (I believe there's a bug/feature request on this but don't recall what it is ... though in 6.x you don't need replicants as containers and items can do the replicating themselves)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com