What are you talking about?
When you are automating a certain process or site in SharePoint, sometimes you want to hide some fields. Let me give you an example:
I have a list to keep track of a process, say an RFP.
I can enter a new RFP, but when I create a new one, I don’t know the opening date, closing date or final date. Those fields are filled in via a workflow.
So if I don’t need to fill to them, why show them ? It would be better to hide those fields on my newform.aspx.
So how does this work ?
You add a new Content Editor webpart on your page and insert the script in the html source.
Link the script source to your Jquery script (that you have uploaded somewhere in a document library)
Now just fill in the field titles of the fields you want to hide.
The script
<script src="LINK TO YOUR JQUERY SCRIPT" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('nobr:contains("field1")').closest('tr').hide();
$('nobr:contains("field2")').closest('tr').hide();
$('nobr:contains("field3")').closest('tr').hide();
});
</script>
You say, "Link the script source to your Jquery script (that you have uploaded somewhere in a document library)" I'm not sure what this means and it's preventing us from being able to implement this tip. Thanks for the great info on your site.
Hi Ben,
I guess I was thinking that everyone used jquery nowadays.
To help you further I wrote a little post on how to start with jquery:
http://marijnsomers.blogspot.com/2011/06/getting-started-with-jquery-for.html
The source I am referencing to can be found at http://jquery.com
and has to look like this:
<script src="http://yourlocation/jquery.min.js"></script>
Dear Marjin,
I can’t get the field to hide. I have applied the following code:
$(document).ready(function() {
$(‘nobr:contains(“ProcessedPO”)’).closest(‘tr’).hide();
});
and if I check in IE Developer Tools, the following shows:
Indicating that the table should be hidden, and that the jQuery have run.
What is wrong? 🙂
Check if your code gets loaded after the webpart is loaded.(by putting the code in a webpart after the webpart with the fields).
Also: are you on a new or edit page ?
Is the field name correct ? (check in the source of the page if there actually is a nobr with the “ProcessendPO” text in it.)
hi Marjin
How can we add a condition to this script. Onlt hide hide fields when a value of another field is equal to some specific value
Thanks in advance
Hi Julia,
You can add a condition is not hard, but has some quirks: the solution is different depending on the fieldtype (text, choice, yes/no, …) that you want to check on.
Say you have a textfield called “Total Cost” and you only want to show a field when the value is “100” then the code would be something like this:
$(document).ready(function() {
var txtcost = $(‘h3:contains(“Total Cost”)’).closest(‘td’).next(‘td’).text();
if(txtcost == “100”){
$(‘nobr:contains(“field1”)’).closest(‘tr’).hide();
}
}
You can get more info on this blogpost here: http://www.balestra.be/2011/09/get-the-field-value-from-dispform-aspx-in-sharepoint-via-jquery.html