Hidden sections (by javascript) appear after saving the record

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Posted on by Gerard91

Hi all,

I'm having a hard time with the following problem:

On a custom entity i'm using javascript to hide some sections based on a lookup (one remains visible the other sections are hidden). The javascript works perfectly (on change & on load) but when I save the record all the sections are visible again. After reloading the page it works fine again. I also tried to run the javascript after save but this was not the solution. The fields were visible after the first save and only when I clicked a second time on the save button the javascript worked again.

This is the javascript I use:

function hideProductSections(executionContext){
    var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
    var productId = formContext.getAttribute("bc_parentproduct").getValue();
    var product;

    if (productId != null) {
        product = String(productId[0].id);

        switch(product) {
            case "{D614A830-F420-EC11-B6E6-6045BD8A193A}"://nen4400-1
                formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(true);
                formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(false);
                break;
            case "{63B28BC1-F420-EC11-B6E6-6045BD8A193A}"://nen4400-2
                formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(false);
                formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(true);
                break;
            default:
                formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(false);
                formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(false);
                break;
        }
    }
    else {
        formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(false);
        formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(false);
    }
}

This is a short version, the switch contains more cases.

Hopefully someone can help me with this issue.

Thanks in advance!

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Hi Gerard91,

I couldn't reproduce your issue(When clicking save button, the all sections would be visible) with the code you provided.

But you could try the following on save JS, it would hide/show the sections after clicking save button(Click it one time is ok).

var saveData = true; function hideProductSectionsOnSave(executionContext){ var formContext = executionContext.getFormContext(); if(!saveData){ saveData = true; return; } executionContext.getEventArgs().preventDefault(); setTimeout( () => { saveData = false; formContext.data.save().then( function (){ var productId = formContext.getAttribute("bc_parentproduct").getValue(); var product; if (productId != null) { product = String(productId[0].id); switch(product) { case "{D614A830-F420-EC11-B6E6-6045BD8A193A}"://nen4400-1 formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(true); formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(false); break; case "{63B28BC1-F420-EC11-B6E6-6045BD8A193A}"://nen4400-2 formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(false); formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(true); break; default: formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(false); formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(false); break; } } else { formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-1").setVisible(false); formContext.ui.tabs.get("general").sections.get("nen4400-2").setVisible(false); } }, function (error){console.log(error.message)}, ); }, 500); }

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Gerard91 10 on at

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for you quick response!

After your message that you couldn't reproduce my issue I investigated the issue even further. After a while i noticed that the issue was caused by a business rule. It turned out that on the sections some fields were shown or hidden and when the fields were shown or hidden the sections became visible again.

I removed the fields from those sections and it worked fine!

Thanks again for your help!

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