Ravelling/Unravelling a section

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Damian Fawkner - 23 Mar 2007 05:08 GMT

Hi,

I have a repeating section on a form. Now the contents of each instance of
the repeated section has the potential to be quite long. I would like to
allow ravelling and unravelling of a repeated section. Similar to a tree
view control (click on the +/-) in explorer.

Ideally I'd like to do this with a minimal of coding underneath.

To illustrate what I'm after - Let's say the section normally contains
Name
Description (a section inside this section)
Other elements

Now when I 'ravel' this section, I want to hide the Description section and
any other elements in this section and just show the 'Name' component.

I.e. If a ravel up all the sections, I'd like to see
+ Name 1
+ Name 2
+ etc...

When I unravel them, then I want to see something like:
- Name1
Description section for Name 1
Other elements for this Name
- Name 2
Description section for Name 2
Other elements for this Name
etc...

Is this possible. And if so, how?

Regards
Damian

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JerryTh [MSFT] - 28 Mar 2007 01:51 GMT

No coding required!
You will need to rework you data just a little.

Add 2 buttons and a field and a section to the Repeating section.
The added field ("Hide") does not need to be on the form.
When the user clicks the [+] button, have it set the "Hide" = False (using
Rules).
On the nested section, add Conditional Formatting to hide the control when
"Hide" = True, and not hide when "Hide" = False.
Also add this conditional formatting to the buttons so that only 1 is showing.
(You don't have to add the section, but that is easier than adding the
formatting to every field, and remembering to add it when you add new fields!)

------------------------------ Repeating Section---------------------
[+][-] Name: _______________

---------------------Section----------------------
| Other data, description, etc
----------------------------------------------------
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Damian Fawkner - 29 Mar 2007 12:02 GMT

Hi,

Thanks very much for the response.

Regards
Damian

> No coding required!
> You will need to rework you data just a little.
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