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Hi everybody, I'm new to SmartForms and discovering all the little quirks with it, but there's one I haven't a clue about and that is... blank space!

 

Let's say I have a table with 2 rows. The first row has a label & some entry control that are hidden unless some criteria is met.  The second row has another label and fcontrol, but these are always visible.  When you load the form, there's a blank space where the hidden label & field are.

 

How do you hide that blank space?

 

Obviously this is a simplified scenario.  In reality my form has HUGE chunks of white space. where several rows of fields are hidden.

 

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HI,

I do not see any table control rules to remove the table row or cell (blank space is cell space here) at runtime. So, I believe it's not possible if you want to hide the first row in a view. I was surprised that you cannot even have two tables in a single view as well. Smart form is definitely not flexible. Just a thought that javascript at form initialize might do a trick, not sure though.

Dear ,

 

The only way u could make smartforms ignore invisible controls is if u add all controls in the same row/cell

which means , if u put test1 label and its text box , and test2 label and its checkbox in the same row ,

then try hiding test1 label and its text box , k2 will ignore the blank spaces ,

 

Hope it helps!

Regards.

Thank you for your responses!

 

IPO - Not sure if I misunderstood you but it certainly is possible to have two (and more) tables in a single view.  It's a control that you can add just as you would any other control.  And you can hide/view them like regular controls as well in rules.

 

Ahmad - Thanks for that, it's been my workaround right now with tables as well.  But I find in some cases there is blank space regardless.  I haven't been able to determine why though.  It's odd though, that you can hide columns and tables in rules but not rows.

Hi Ahmad,

 

 

Can you please explain little bit more , on how can smartforms ignore white spaces , even though if its in a  same row.

 

Any help would be greatly appriciated ..

 

Thanks and Regards,

Ruchi

Dear CHIRU ,

 

I will explain it with a simple example ,

 

First view , i add 4x2 item view , 4 rows , 2 columns ,and added 4 labels and 4 textboxes i took each label+textbox each 2 in the same row ,

 and ill show u the design time and the run time ,

 

Design time ,

 

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The Second view , is 1x2 , 1 row 2 columns , and i added 4 labels and 4 textboxes in the same row ,

u will notice in the runtime , that the runtime screen shot ,even when u make first 3 labels+textboxes invisibile , it will not show the blank spaces and it will ignore them ,

 

Design view 

 

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Hope it helps!

Regards.

l have also noticed this. I have got around this problem by using tables inside the cells. It seems if you put you controls in a table and hide and show tables instead of the controls, it seems to hide the whitespaces much better. Give it a go and see if it works for you.

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