Re: Re: Some newbie questions

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:58:55 +0200, Andreas Jung 
<andreas-ARtvInVfO7mgNtSmz8jCiw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > I need fairly fine-grained control over when specific fields appear.
>
> This is also somewhat important. E.g. I do not want to display a fields
> belonging to "contact informations" on every form.
>
> I know it is a hard problem especially when you are trying to provide a
> very generic mechansim for that. At least I learned that at some point 
> you
> can not provide full generic approaches when presentation issues are 
> involved somehow.
>
> -aj

Not sure if this is what you want, but there exists a clever DOM script
that hides form fields on a group by group basis depending on if they
are relevant to the current entry.

http://www.digital-web.com/features/feature_2003-05b.shtml

Perhaps this can be worked into Archetypes?



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Joe Geldart
Netalley Networks
http://www.netalleynetworks.com



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