Show/Hide Annotations in a "Form Section" on a certain view

[veena_kvkk88]

Hi all,

This should be easy but am unable to figure out. I want show/hide annotations based on a choice field. I was able to do this using onChange() client script and by having element id's for each annotation.

function onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading, isTemplate) {
   if (isLoading) {
   return;
   }
   if(getView() == 'sample_view'){
   if (newValue == "First choice"){
   document.getElementById("anno1").parentNode.style.display="none";
   document.getElementById("anno2").parentNode.style.display="none";
   document.getElementById("anno3").parentNode.style.display="block";
   }
   else if(newValue == "Second choice"){
   document.getElementById("anno1").parentNode.style.display="block";
   document.getElementById("anno2").parentNode.style.display="block";
   document.getElementById("anno3").parentNode.style.display="none";
   }
   else if(newValue == ""){
   document.getElementById("anno1").parentNode.style.display="none";
   document.getElementById("anno2").parentNode.style.display="none";
   document.getElementById("anno3").parentNode.style.display="none";
   }
   }
}

This was working fine when I had these annotations on the main form in the "Sample View". Now I have annotations in a section on the form. When I use the same script, it is unable to locate the elements. Do I have to specify what section these are on? If so, how do I do that? Please help.

[venkatiyer1]

Hi Veena,

The general pattern for using a field name in document.getElementById would be tablename.fieldname. It should work the same way even on section unless the section is not visible.

[veena_kvkk88]

But that's the issue. I thought it should too, but it throws an error the way it does when it can't locate the annotations.

[jbdevsn]

How do you assign a field value to an annotation?

[venkatiyer1]

Hi Jack,

The wiki links below should help with setting the field value of annotation

Annotating Forms - ServiceNow Wiki

Form annotation