I may be wrong about this, but I was hoping for confirmation on a possible change in the way hidden controls work. I know that if a control is directly hidden, it will not pass a value into the flow, but that doesn’t seem to have been the case if the control is visible but in a hidden group. For the past year, I’ve operated with the understanding that a control itself has to be set to visible to pass a value to the flow. Today, however, I noticed that a visible control in a hidden group no longer passes the value. It was a couple years ago when I was learning Nintex that I found out about how the visible controls in a hidden field work, and so I may have not fully understood it. So, I wanted to see if something has changed in the way a control’s value is handled from inside a hidden group.
Controls in hidden groups no longer passing value in WorkflowCloud
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+13Just ran a test and this worked ok for me.
I too use this feature a lot.
For testing:
created a form variable txtTitle and set value to “newTitle”
on form design added a group and set visible to no
added a label control (visible = yes)
added form variable txtTile to the label control.
in workflow action, log to instance history and output the value of txtTile.
It logged correctly in the instance history when I submitted the form.
+4Thanks for the info,
Here’s my test…
3 groups.
In group 1, controls are visible but group is hidden.
In group 2, controls are visible and group is visible.
In group 3, controls are hidden and group is visible.
All controls have default values set to Yes or no… The name shows its default value.
The only ones that logged values are the visible controls in a visible group. All the others came out null.
+13You could try different control types in group 1, see if its an issue with the Yes/No control.
For me 95% of the time I’m only using labels to bring across the values of form variables.
Next step would be to log a support ticket for this one.
+4That’s basically the path I’ll be going. My suspicion is that it has to do with the default values. And thanks for your time and help with this. :)
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