How to check if a field on the form is visible in Client Script?

[Ashish70]

I have a field on a form which I want to verify as being hidden/ empty. The field would be hidden if it is empty as that part is already built in. I want to find out if the field is visible or if the field is empty on the form in a client script. Please help. Thanks.

[BryanS413339635]

This community post may help: check visibility of variable

[Willem]

On a form in the back-end you can use

g_form.isVisible("fieldName");

It will return true if the field is visible.

[JayGervais · Accepted solution]

You could do a check like this.

if (g_form.isVisible('field') || g_form.getValue('field') != '') {

  // check if the field is visible or has a value

}

[pawel_staszewsk]

I am not sure why, but for me it works only when I do:

var priElement = g_form.getGlideUIElement('priority');
var priControl = g_form.getControl('priority');
if (g_form.isVisible(priElement, priControl)) 
   g_form.setMandatory('priority', true);