Hiding Fields Based on a Value from Another Module

[robind2]

Hi,

My company had a 3rd party come in and do some customization for us, including creating custom modules.

Some background info: there are two types of contacts, lets call them contact1 and contact2. Contact1 and Contact2 are related to each other using a relationship table in the database that contains each of their sugar guid's.

My question is this: in the Contact1 module, I have to selectively show a few fields based on the a value set on the related contact in Contact2. So, for example, if "Field" is set to "A" on Contact2, show these special fields in the edit, detail, and list views on Contact1. If "Field" is set to "B" on Contact2, do NOT show the fields on Contact1.

Now, if the field we're checking against was in the same module, it would be an easy task to do in DevToolKit, but its not. Its on another module, for which there is a relationship to the current record in the current module to.

Is this in anyway do-able in DevToolKit? What would have to be different?

Thanks!

[eggsurplus]

One way to do this is to create a view.detail.php (and view.edti.php) and get the related module bean, check the value, and if you shouldn't show the field output some javascript to display: none on that element.