conditional rule based visibility of form field  
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marco.r





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Process Templates, conditional rule based visibility of form field Top

Hi all,

I've set up my TFS and I'm quite satisfied with it. One thing I'm missing is the possibilty to display fields in the form depending on the selected value of another fields. I know that I can toggle the different values with the conditinal rules but I miss the possibility to change whether the field in the form is visible depending on the previous value chosen.

Any suggestions

Marco



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Naren Datha - MSFT





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Process Templates, conditional rule based visibility of form field Top

Marco,

Visibility of fields in work item form cannot be controlled by conditional rules in V1. Displayed fields do not appear and disappear as the rules change. One option is to clear out a field and make it readonly if there isn't any applicable value for a field. Could you explain the scenario if above suggestion won't meet your needs If there is big need for this, we could consider this feature for future.



 
 
marco.r





PostPosted: Team Foundation Server - Process Templates, conditional rule based visibility of form field Top

Hello Naren,

thank you for you help ! We have already experimented with the read-only tag and for the time being this will work for us. The main reason why we would like to make form-fields disappear dynamic is that based on the selection of a certain software-area for a bug work item we need to collect more detailed information. The problem here is that it is rather disturbing if you are shown those detail-fields although you are in an area where they make absolutely no sense.

Quick (bad) example:

SoftwareArea: GUI
ExtraField1: Graphics adapter
ExtraField2: Resolution
ExtraField3: ColorDepth
etc...
SoftwareArea: BusinessLogic
No or other ExtraFields needed but the GUI fields are shown.

It would be very useful if one could also control the visibility on a user/group basis.

Marco