Hiding containers issue -- viewing an existing DCR

Hi all,

Teamsite environment : 6.1.0 Service Pack 2.
Testing it on Windows XP 2002 SP2.

I dont know if this a known issue or not. I searched the forums and found number of posts regarding hiding containers within DCT's. But I am having
problems with hidden fields (specifically hiding containers) within DCT when user views the DCR (not when editing or creating it). I have a couple of hidden fields within DCT which i populate within FormAPI ("onSave" event handler). Now the fields (and containers) are hidden for creating a new form entry as well as when a user edit's an existing DCT. But when user views a DCT just clicking on the existing DCR, the hidden containers are seen. Did I miss something in the FormAPI or DCT or it is supposed to work this way. This is the relevant portion of my DCT. I have tried min/max=1. removed label tag and removed default=0.. but dosent seem to solve the issue. Any ideas ?

<container combination="and" location="Security" name="Security" default="0">
<label/>
<item max="unbounded" min="2" name="Group" pathid="Group">
<hidden />
<label></label>
<text required="f" size="60" maxlength="120" />
</item>
</container>

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JeremyH

No scripts are run when viewing a file. thus hidden fields are not seen, while dynamically generated fields are not seen.

jbonifaci

I believe what Jeremy meant to say was, you're out of luck, when in preview mode the user sees all.

~Jeff

Adam Stoller

Well - any fields that are marked as hidden in the DCT will, in fact, be hidden when the DCR is "viewed" - but any fields that are hidden via FormAPI will be visible when the DCR is "viewed" because the FormAPI code is not run in that situation.

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

JeremyH

Hey Jeff -

Thanks for correcting my garbled English! I should no better than trying to type late on Fridays!

Adam Stoller

Thanks for correcting my garbled English! I should no better than trying to type late on Fridays!

Apparently you're not that much better on Mondays :-)

(sorry - couldn't resist)

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

JeremyH

I guess I'll need add Monday morning to the list of times when it is not appropriate to type responses.