Hide field unyil dropdown value

[Meyer]

Hi there

I have a dropdown in leads. and a field called referred by. I need the referred by field greyd out or hidden untill that dropdown value is chosen?

Any ideas?

[mikesolomon]

You can do it with javascript

In editviewdefs you can add a onchange event to the dropdown

 1 => 
          array (
            'name' => 'otype',
            'label' => 'LBL_OTYPE',
             'displayParams' => 
            array (
              'javascript' => 'onchange="other_type(this.value)"',
            ),
            'tabindex' => '11',
          ),
        ),

You also need to call this function when you edit the record so the field is set to the correct state

[Meyer]

Thanks a lot.

Sorry but i am now a programmer so bare with me please.
This is still sugar 4.5.1

my dropdown field is type. and field that needs to be hidden is reffered_by

1 =>
array (
'name' => 'reffered_by',
'label' => 'LBL_reffered_by',
'displayParams' =>
array (
'javascript' => 'onchange="type(referred)"',
),
'tabindex' => '11',
),
),


Does the above too right?
1 =>
array (
'name' => 'otype',
'label' => 'LBL_OTYPE',
'displayParams' =>
array (
'javascript' => 'onchange="other_type(this.value)"',
),
'tabindex' => '11',
),
),

[mikesolomon]

Thanks a lot.

Sorry but i am now a programmer so bare with me please.
This is still sugar 4.5.1

my dropdown field is type. and field that needs to be hidden is reffered_by

1 =>
array (
'name' => 'reffered_by',
'label' => 'LBL_reffered_by',
'displayParams' =>
array (
'javascript' => 'onchange="type(referred)"',
),
'tabindex' => '11',
),
),


Does the above too right?
1 =>
array (
'name' => 'otype',
'label' => 'LBL_OTYPE',
'displayParams' =>
array (
'javascript' => 'onchange="other_type(this.value)"',
),
'tabindex' => '11',
),
),

You need the javascript on the type field not the reffered_by field

The code I am using is in 5.2 - not sure if it will work in 4.5

I would test it by doing something like

array (
'name' => 'type',
'label' => 'LBL_TYPE',
'displayParams' =>
array (
'javascript' => 'onchange="alert(this.value)"',
),
'tabindex' => '11',
),

Then do a repair and try changing values in the dropdown - each time you change the value it should popup the field value