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Hide Date Field Date Picker Icon

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Kevin Cubillas
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6/19/2012 6:22 PM
Hi,

I am working on a DS form that has fields I want to hide and display as a user fills out other fields.  When I try to hide a date field, the little date picker icon () does not disappear.  The date field disappears but the icon does not.  Also, if I place another field on top of it and make it visible, the date picker continues to display through the visible field. 

Code to make date field hidden:
var objDate1 = lawForm.UIDocument.getElementById("_f22");
objDate1.style.visibility = "hidden";

Any ideas???

Tags: Design Studio datepicker calendar
Phil Romov
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6/19/2012 6:56 PM
Not that this would be portable, or officially supported, or anything, but you could use something like jquery (something like either in your source or in your default.html for the portal role, if the source doesn't work) and then use dom traversal to find the date picker element, something like http://api.jquery.com/next/ maybe

Even easier would probably be to inspect the lawson generated html and manipulate that
Phil Romov
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6/19/2012 7:04 PM
Even easier, I pulled up AP20 in MSIE, went to developer tools, searched for ico_form_calendar (that's the filename of the little date picker icon) and found the id (analogous to _f22) to be SELBUTTON_f15

You can use the same technique to find your date picker. In fact, I bet for your case, you could just add this code:


var objDate1_picker = lawForm.UIDocument.getElementById("SELBUTTON_f22");
objDate1_picker.style.visibility = "hidden";
Kevin Cubillas
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6/19/2012 8:27 PM
Thanks Phil! That worked. I need to get my arms around the ability to mine objects in a rendered form in IE. That's very good skill to have.
Phil Romov
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6/20/2012 5:30 PM
Developer tools (F12) makes it easy.

Glad you got it sorted