How to conditionally display a choice list

[Paul Coste]

How might one go about conditionally displaying (or NOT displaying) a choice list on a field of type String, and then dynamically populating the choice list?

Scenario:

I have a field called "Value" that is defined as type String.  When I am creating or updating the record, I want the Value field either to display as a Choice list (with dynamic choices specified by a Choice Script) OR to display as a standard Text field.  I know how to do the Choice Script on a field to show dynamic choices, but I am not sure if there is a way to override the functionality.  Ideally I would like to do this in a Client Script, rather than modify the Dictionary Entry for that field.

[Weird]

Is there a reason for wanting to use one specific field for this?
Sounds like you would have a lot less work with two fields. One that is a choice list and one that is a regular string field. You'd then only need to use UI Policies to handle the visibility.

[nitish]

Hi,

Agree with Joni's reply that you should create two separate fields with string and choice type. As per business logic show /hide those fields.

Regards

[Paul Coste]

Agree with both replies -- this would be the most straightforward way to achieve that functionality.  The reason for my question as stated is that I am looking to do this on an out of box component and I am looking to minimize my customization footprint, ideally not having to modify the table or dictionary entries at all.  I was hoping that I could do this entirely from a UI script on an existing text field.  From what I can find there does not seem to be a way to do this, so yes I will most likely either create a custom field or rethink my approach entirely.