Hide-when options for all applications

About this task

Domino® Designer lets you hide many of the design elements and components of an application according to the context you specify. You can hide design elements from certain types of users to help you tailor an application for use by Notes®, Web, or Mobile clients. You can also hide individual design elements according to a particular context you specify. If hide options are available, the Hide-When tab appears on the properties box for that element.

You can hide elements, including their text, graphics, and fields, in any of these situations:

  • When users read, hide information that is useful only when users create or edit documents.
  • When users edit, print, and copy, hide information that is useful when users read documents.
Parent topic: Planning an application
Related concepts:
Planning a traditional Notes and Web application

Related information

"Revealing the hidden secrets of hide-when" on the Developer Domain

To set hide-when options on one or more elements according to client type

Procedure

  1. Select a design element in the design pane. To select multiple elements, hold down the shift key while you click to select multiple elements.
  2. Choose Design - Design Properties.
  3. On the Design tab, choose one or more hide options in the "Hide design element from" section.

To set hide-when options on individual elements according to context

Procedure

  1. Select the element you want to hide in the work pane and open the Properties box.
  2. Click the Hide tab.
  3. For basic options, select all situations in the "Hide paragraph when document is:" section where components should be hidden from users. Consider the options in the following table.
  4. For programming options, select "Hide paragraph if formula is true" and write a formula in the design pane to describe the situations in which users don't need to see the layout region.

    If an element is hidden when

    Then

    Previewed for reading

    The hidden information isn't visible when users read documents in the document preview pane.

    Previewed for editing

    The hidden information isn't visible when users work on documents in Edit mode in the document preview pane.

    Opened for reading

    The hidden information isn't visible when users open documents in Read mode. A layout region that can't be read can't be printed either.

    Opened for editing

    The hidden information isn't visible when users work on documents in Edit mode.

    Printed

    The hidden information isn't visible on printed documents.

    Copied to the clipboard

    Hides the contents of the component when users copy a document. Note that this setting does not affect documents copied at the view level.

    Note: If you create or save a document from a form that contains a field with "Hide when copied to the clipboard" checked and then copy the contents of the document somewhere else, the contents of that field will not be pasted.

    Embedded

    The element isn't visible when users access a document in which you have used the embedded editor to embed the element.

    Hide paragraph if formula is true

    A formula determines the circumstances in which information is hidden.