Field and Region Display Control
You can use Configure Fields and Regions to control field and region display and default field values.
Configure Fields and Regions enables you to:
- Maintain valid data and ensure data quality by reducing errors.
- Build more efficient processes that end users can trust by offering a simple user experience, without having to understand the complexity of policies.
- Make work faster, easier, and more manageable by showing only the relevant, most appropriate content that in turn drives engagement and productivity.
Here's a recap of what you can control at the field and region levels.
| Capability | Field | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Optional or required |
|
For processes such as Promote and Change Position |
| Hide or show |
|
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| Editable or read-only |
|
Not Applicable |
| Default field values |
|
Not Applicable |
Business rules offers a user-friendly extensibility tool, enabling professionals and administrators to make changes without the need for extensive programming skills.
Using Conditions, Simple Expression, Advanced Expression and JavaScript (JS)
You can build simple rules using the condition builder to define when to trigger the defaulting or validation rules.
Use simple expressions to default a value with another field value, or to transform data before assigning the value to a field.
Use advanced expressions in conditions, if:
- The available operators aren't sufficient to write the rule logic.
- You need to transform data. Note that the use of JS in advanced expression is strictly limited to data transformation like substring, day of, and so on.
Let’s learn how to do these actions conditionally:
- Hide or show a region
- Hide or show a field
- Make a field read-only
- Hide or show a developer flexfield (DDF) segment
- Hide or show an extensible flexfield (EFF) context