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Amitosh_Tripathy
Ideator I
7 years ago

How to render a boolean field in a form as HTML with images or colored text

has_change_pending in Part/CAD/Document forms is a check box. I want to make it  - An image, if true show one image, if false show another Or - A colored text, if true show in one color, if fal...
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asebastian
New Member
7 years ago

Hi Amitosh,

This is an interesting use case. I'd recommend looking at the OOTB form for an Express ECO. There is a field on the form titled "EDR_Status" which is very similar to what you're attempting to do. All manipulation of this field happens during the form's onFormPopulate event "Express Fill EDR Status Field". Specifically, the function "populateEdrStatus" will be helpful.

You should be able to write some javascript which quickly looks at the boolean property, and then assigns the correct image/text to the HTML element you've created.

Tanks,

AJ

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    Amitosh_Tripathy
    Ideator I
    7 years ago

    I could change the field to HTML, 

    <img src="../customer/ChangePending.png" style="width: 36px; height: 36px;" name="has_change_pending"></img>

    And wrote a method on onFormPopulate to decide to show the image or not

    if(top.aras.getItemProperty(document.item, "has_change_pending", "") != "1")
    {
      hideChangePendingImage(true);
      return;
    }

    hideChangePendingImage(false);

    function hideChangePendingImage(hide)
    {

      var image = document.getElementsByName("has_change_pending")[0];
      if(hide)
      {
        image.style.display = "none";
      }
    }