setVisible works, but setDisplay doesn't

[petercawdron]

I'm looking to show/hide form content based on changes on a form (including show/hide of related lists) and would like to use setDisplay (because it reclaims white space on a form), but only setVisible seems to work (which leaves white space), setDisplay fails.

g_form.setVisible('short_description', false); //works

g_form.setDisplay('short_description', false); //doesn't work

Any ideas?

[Abhinay Erra]

I think you are setting the display of field to false from a different application scope

[petercawdron]

Yes... it's strange how the setVisible works from a different application scope, but not the setDisplay.

Is there any way to override this behavior?

[Abhinay Erra]

Peter,

  Try changing your application access settings

[Abhinay Erra]

Go thru this link. Allow access from all the application scopes

Application Access Settings - ServiceNow Wiki

[rakesh90]

You can take the id of short description and document.getElementById("I'd").display:None;

it may works for your code.