Hide container in portal based on user record

[David Sloan]

I have a user-defined field on the sys_user table. Based on this field I would like to show/hide containers on the home page of our portal. As I understand it, you cannot OOB hide a container based on user criteria, so what is the best way to do this? Should I add a script to that portal page that checks this value and shows/hides the DOM element accordingly? As I understand it, this method is not advised. So what is advised? And if I am creating a script on the page, how do I check that value from the server?

[David Sloan]

Still in need of help here. Again, the user criteria plug-in does not allow you to hide a container. I assume I am going to have to script something. What is the best practice for this, and how do I access the user-defined field on the sys_user table to know which containers to show/hide?

[David Sloan]

I am going to use DOM manipulation to hide the container. I was trying to avoid that, but I have not yet found a better way.

[Swapnil Soni1]

Hey David,

Inspect the element by using the browser's developer options and get the 'id' attribute of the container. And then use the following JavaScript code to hide/show the container.

Code: document.getElementById("inspected id comes here").style.display = "none";

          document.getElementById("inspected id comes here").style.display = "block";

Or you can use this script-

function onLoad() {

	var Type = g_form.getValue('variables.BI_ReqType');

   alert(Type);

         if (Type !== 'Modify Report Distribution')
                try {
                      $("container_31646219dbf317405b9add0b5e9619bc").hide();
                  } catch(error) {}
	
         if (Type !== 'Create Report')
                try {
                      $("container_12f46a19dbf317405b9add0b5e96191e").hide();					   
                   } catch(error) {}
 
         if (Type !== 'Modify Report')
               try {
                       $("container_1a53aa95dbf317405b9add0b5e9619a1").hide();
                   } catch(error) {}
 
         if (Type !== 'Schedule Report')
               try {
                      $("container_fb46ee19dbf317405b9add0b5e96198d").hide();
                   } catch(error) {}
 
         if (Type !== 'Publish Report')
                try {
                       $("container_08196e99dbf317405b9add0b5e961982").hide();			   
				   } catch(error) {}

         if (Type !== 'New Data Request')
                  try {
                       $("container_5d41fe11db3717405b9add0b5e961951").hide();
                   } catch(error) {}

         if (Type !== 'Data/Report Question')
                  try {
                       $("container_0c42b611db3717405b9add0b5e96197d").hide();
                  } catch(error) {}
   }

 Please mark correct or helpful if this helps.

Thanks

Swapnil

[David Sloan]

I put similar code in a JS Include for the theme, but it is not working yet. To clarify: this is the home page of the portal where I want to show/hide containers. I want to do this based on a user-defined field in the user table. I haven't even gotten to the point yet of passing that information from the user table. Right now I am just trying to see if I can change the display setting of container elements, but so far no luck.

[David Sloan]

It appears that the containers do not have ids. I thought I could hide them by assigning them a class and using jquery to hide that class, but that doesn't work.