Show and hide multiple text boxes and form fields depending on dropdown form selection or any other posible button selection.

[NikoGR]

Hello everyone,
Attached is a "small" topic that I'm trying to solve and need help.

Description:
Show and hide multiple text boxes and form fields depending on dropdown form or any other posible button selection.
If I may formulate it in Excel manners.
If "Niko" is in the drop down, only the fields intended for Niko should appear.

But if "Maria" is selected, only the fields intended for Maria should be displayed.

If "Niko & Maria" is selected, all fields should appear.

How can I do this?

A suggested solution with step-by-step instructions would be very nice .

Working with Adobe Acrobat Pro 2020 (2020.005.30441)

Thanks in advance.

[AsifChowdhury · Accepted solution]

Hello @NikoGR 

Here I am giving the idea of how you can achieve it with a dropdown selector.
Your requirement is not supported by AEM OTB. So you need to create a clientlib and do some custom code for this. To achieve this you need to write a clientlib for the author dialog.

Step 1: Add your clientlib by "extraClientlibs" in your dialog.
Step 2: You can choose the "select" component which supports multiple values to select with "granite:data" => 'cq-dialog-dropdown-showhide-target=".target-item-show-hide"'

<type
    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
    sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/form/select"
    granite:class="cq-dialog-dropdown-showhide"
    fieldLabel="Type"
    multiple="{Boolean}true"
    name="./type">
<granite:data
        jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
        cq-dialog-dropdown-showhide-target=".target-item-show-hide"/>
    <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
        <option
                jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
                text="Targeted Item"
                value="targetedItem"/>
    </items>
</type>

Step 3: Add "granite:data" => 'showhidetargetvalue="targetedItem"' in the targeted component and 'granite:class="hide target-item-show-hide"'

<targetedItem
    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
    sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/container"
    granite:class="hide target-item-show-hide">
<granite:data
    jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
    showhidetargetvalue="targetedItem"/>

Step 3: You can grab the selected items from this "select" component in the associated clientlib js as an array/list

let selectedItemList = $('.cq-dialog-dropdown-showhide').values;

Step 4: You can also grab all targeted item

let targetedItemClass = $(element).data("cqDialogDropdownShowhideTarget"); // targetedItem class which is provided in "granite:data" in select component
let targetedItemList = $(targetedItemClass);

Step 5: Then you can loop through the targeted item list and check if any item's "showhidetargetvalue" exist on the selected item list and filter out these items

var filteredItem = [];
targetedItemList.each((idx, targetedItem) => {
    let targetedItemValue = $(targetedItem).data('showhidetargetvalue');
    if(selectedItemList.includes(targetedItemValue)){
        filteredElement.push($(targetedItem));
    }
})

Step 6: Now you can show/hide those filtered items.

filteredElement.forEach(element => element.removeClass('hide'));

[NikoGR]

Thank you very much this is one of the best step by step descriptions

I have seen in this forum so far!

Before I have any additional questions that I would certainly like to ask later if I could .

Will try it out later this week and give feedback.

thx again.

[AsifChowdhury]

Sure, and most welcome.

[NikoGR]

Every beginning always has these strange questions... so do I .

Are we talking that I can do this with Adobe 2020?
So is this step by step description for Adobe 2020?
If yes, how do I accomplish steps 1 & 2?
what about "Add your clientlib by "extraClientlibs" in your dialog." wint? where is this in adobe 2020?

I know that I'm annoying with basic things, but at the same time I try to understand everything.

Thank you for your patience and understanding in advance.

[AsifChowdhury]

Hello @NikoGR 

for this custom plugin, you may be made a clientlib for author in your component

For every AEM Component, we have a structure

- exampleComponent
  - _cq_dialog
    - .content.xml
  - clientlib
    - main.js
    - js.txt
    - .content.xml
  - clientlib-author
    - authorClientlib.js
    - js.txt
    - .content.xml
  - exampleComponent.html
  - .content.xml

here in clientlib-author's xml file we have the category of this clientlib

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0" xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0"
          jcr:primaryType="cq:ClientLibraryFolder"
          allowProxy="{Boolean}true"
          categories="[your.author.clientlib.category]"/>

component dialog xml looks like

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jcr:root xmlns:sling="http://sling.apache.org/jcr/sling/1.0" xmlns:cq="http://www.day.com/jcr/cq/1.0"
          xmlns:jcr="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/1.0" xmlns:nt="http://www.jcp.org/jcr/nt/1.0" xmlns:granite="http://www.adobe.com/jcr/granite/1.0"
          jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
          jcr:title="Example Component"
          sling:resourceType="cq/gui/components/authoring/dialog"
          extraClientlibs="[your.author.clientlib.category]">
<content jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured"
         sling:resourceType="granite/ui/components/coral/foundation/fixedcolumns">
    <items jcr:primaryType="nt:unstructured">
    </items>
</content>
</jcr:root>

we can add the category of the author-clientlib in the component with extraClientlibs in this way

[NikoGR]

It's not about an XML file, it's about a PDF form that I want to create in Adobe 2020.
Better said, combine 3 separate forms into one (which has already been done)

and at the same time call up the respective form with a selection/dropdown field and hide the others.

Thank you for your patience and time.