WebDB: A workaround for the Hidden Fields bug

Well, in case anyone else had this problem I decided to post my findings. I was trying to use hidden fields in a Form with an Unstructured Layout. We figured out that there was a bug in WebDB with Unstructured Layouts, but when I rewrote the forms from scratch and made them have Structured Layouts, everything worked correctly. Go figure. This is a great workaround as long as you don't absolutely need to have an unstructured layout.

-Sandy

Desert Dweller <noone_at_nowhere.com> wrote in message news:08YP4.22788$x4.699487_at_newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> Hi there,
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> I am pretty new to WebDB and would really appreciate some help! I can't
 get
> my hidden items on a form to really disappear, or to pass themselves as
> parameters to the procedure the form is based on.
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> I have a form based on a procedure, and the procedure requires several
> parameters. I don't want the user to see *all* of those parameters on the
> form, though -- I would like two to be hidden.
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> I am calling the form from a report. I'd like to pass the two hidden
> parameters in from the report to the form, instead of their being visible
 on
> the form for user entry/update. When the user submits the form, I would
> like it to pass ALL the parameters (both visible and hidden) to the
> underlying procedure.
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> My report passes the parameters to the form just fine, and testing with
> everything visible works great. But when I set the "Display As" field to
> "Hidden" for my 2 invisible parameters, I'm encountering two problems:
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> 1) Visual: I get a "ghost" field showing up on my form. It is an "echo"
 of
> whatever visible field is closest to the hidden ones. If I put the hidden
> ones at the bottom of the list, the bottom of my form repeats the last
> visible field (without a label). If I put them at the top of the list,
 the
> form puts a copy of the first visible field (without a label) before it at
> the top. How can I get rid of this echo field?
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> 2) Functional: When the form is submitted it does NOT pass along the
 values
> for the two hidden parameters. Argh! Is there any way to make the fields
> hidden but still have them passed along as parameters to the procedure?
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> Thanks so much for any help you can offer!
> -Sandy
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Received on Tue May 23 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST