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Condition Visiblity of fields based on a value of picklist (not based on a users profile)
Is there a way to control if fields are visible in a page layout which is based on the value of a PickList selection (this is different than visibility of fields based on a RecordType which is controlled by the Role of the user)?
if the user selects a picklist VehicleType = 'Car' on a tab then the sections with Car related fields is displayed. If the user selects VehicleType = "Bike" on a tab then the section with Bike related fields are displayed. Thus you put all the fields for all vehicles: bike, car, boat, airplane etc in one object and the visibility of the fields will driven by the value of VehicleType selected by the user.
[This is different than hiding values in picklist based on RecordType, since the user is going to select the VehichleType once he begins editting the record and selects the VehicleType and the appropriate fields related to that choice will be visible , and the fields that are not related to that VehicleType will be invisible]
My understanding is that the user's profile and various RecordTypes determines the page layout that the end user will see, is this correct?
However what I am asking is something a little different. Will RecordTypes handle the situation in which fields become visible if he selects a particular Picklist item. This issue is that the visible fields are not determined by the users Profile but based on the selection that he makes once he selects the Picklist item
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is there a property on the fields such as if(Picklist.VehicleType = "Car" ) then CarMake.visible ='true' else CarMake.Visible = 'false'
They don't even need to edit the Record Type. Once you setup 2 Record Types, as soon as the user creates a new record, they will be prompted with a page to select which Record Type (shown here).
Once the user makes their selection, they will see the related page layout. If they want to change, they can always change the Record Type and switch to the other layout.
Hope that helps,
Sati
Was there something special that you did to get this "New Test" Record Type selector to show up which then chooses the correct page layout? I have multiple record types and I have not been able to get this first screen with the pulldown list of the Record Type.
Do you find any solution for this? I've to implement same functionality without changing the record type