ESS Personal Information Address- hiding of custom fields not working

[Former Member]

In the personal address of ESS we had added four extra fields for communication.

We need to hide the fields when value is zero.

The coding is written in wdDoModifyView of Reviewview in VcPerAddressUSReview

we will get the value of Communication fields like below.Com01 is the context name for communication

String com1 = wdThis.wdGetContext().currentSelectedInfotypeElement().getCom01();

After that if com1 is zero we are trying to hide the fields in that line

by creating a Context node Fcom01 of type com.sap.ide.webdynpro.uielementdefinitions.Visibility and setting Fcom01 to NONE as below.

WDVisibility vsble = wdContext.currentFlagsElement().getFcom01() ;

wdContext.currentFlagsElement().setFcom01(vsble.NONE);

and Fcom01 is linked in the prpoerty of visible condition of comm fields

No error is showing but when we run it is showing a Null pointer exception

in portal for the Review page.

Thanks and regards,

Safeer.I

[ChrisPaine · Accepted solution]

Hello,

are you checking that com1 is actually populated

do a check like:

if (com1 == null || com1.equalsString("0") )
{

blah
}

Sorry - syntax is unlikely to be correct - but hopefully you get the idea - just because you retrieve a value from the context does not mean that it is non-null.

Cheers,

Chris

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply but my problem is that even if IF condition is commented and direclty tried to hide

the comm fields using the code

wdcontext.currentFlagsElement.setFcom01(wdvisibility.none)

But it is not hiding the fields dyanamicllay .

Any other property need to be set for the flags Fcom01 as the code is not changing the visibility condition of the fields.

Thanks and regards,

Safeer.I

[ChrisPaine · Accepted solution]

Hi Safeer,

have you checked to see what the visibilty of the UI Element is bound to - I don't think it is bound to the context attribute Fcom01 - that's the value of the field I think...

You may need to define a new attribute in your context and then in the layout assign this attribute to the visiblity of the UI element that you want to hide.

Then in your code, assign the visibility (or not) of this attribute - not the field value.

Cheers,

Chris

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply.

Visibility property of UI element is already bound with the context element.

After that also it is not hiding the fileds.

Finally I solved it by calling the IWD elements with their names and hide it directly

and it is working fine for me.

But still I dont know why the hidingof fields not working with visibilty condition flag setting method.

[Former Member]

I am closing the thread

Safeer.I