Show/hide a paragraph of text based on Confiform field

[Tamara Blake]

I am working on a Confiform where there is a dropdown selection for state (CA, AZ NC etc.) Depending which state is selected I need a block of text to show up with detailed instructions - 100+ words.

Any suggestions how to do this?

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_ · Accepted solution]

Hi

Do you have separate instructions for each option (state)?

How do you plan to manage those instructions? Knowing this could help me to give a better advise on the data and form design...

Alex

[Tamara Blake]

Yes - there are separate instructions for each option or group of options.

ie:

Option 1 - Instructions on how to proceed ...

Option 2: - A different type of instruction ...

Option 3, Option 4 - A completely different instruction ...

As far as managing them - as long as I can format them in a normal way it doesn't matter how they are contained on the page, Div, Span etc -  not a pdf though

I understand using Rules and the IFTTT field just don't know the best way to do this.

[Alex Medved _ConfiForms_]

You can have them on the FormView, in some containers, identifiable by an ID for example. DIV macro is a good example of a container from Content Formatting plugin - https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/247/content-formatting-macros-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview (can have other macros inside)

And then have the Field Definition Rules with Show/Hide Container rule(s) - showing/hiding these DIVs based on the conditions / selections made by the user (you just specify a CSS selector, basically #ID_OF_A_DIV you set)

For simple containers you can use our user macro (no need for any other 3rd partu plugin) - https://wiki.vertuna.com/display/VERTUNA/Div+container (due to the bugs in user macros rendering (by Confluence) it will not work for some HTML markup (we know that textarea is problematic, for example))

[Tamara Blake]

Thanks Alex - I'll try it out and let you know if I have any other questions. Thanks for the quick response too!

[Tamara Blake]

Thank you Alex! Using the DIV macro and the Hide/Show Container rule worked! Had to play with it a bit on a few of the settings but got it done. This will really make the maintenance of this form so much easier too.

You are the best!