APPLICATION DESIGN


Hiding fields
Use hidden fields to perform interim calculations or to store information you do not want users to see. In the IBMR LotusR Domino(TM) Designer templates, hidden fields appear at the bottom of forms, preceded by the heading "Hidden fields."

Hiding fields is not a security feature. Users can see the value of hidden fields on the Fields tab of the Document Properties box in the IBMR LotusR NotesR client. To keep the data fields safe, encrypt, rather than hide, the fields.

Hiding options

When you hide a field, you are actually hiding the paragraph on the form that contains the field. If there is text, such as a field label or graphics, in that paragraph, Designer hides them with the field. You can hide a field and any associated text or graphic all the time or only at certain times. For example, information useful only when users create or edit documents can be hidden during reading, printing, and copying; information that is used for display, such as a computed field that displays the result of an author's choice in an editable choice list field, can be hidden during editing.

The following are options for hiding fields:

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