Why are some of my conditional settings not rendering properly?

  • odnd
    Asked on April 21, 2017 at 6:18 PM

    I have built 5 sections to my form — all identical, except for their section numbers. They all have the same conditional logic, but that logic is working only on the 1st section, not the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th. What might I be missing or misunderstanding....?

    The first example: When "Cash" is selected from the "#1 Income Type" dropdown menu, the "Cash" field shows and the "Check" and "In-Kind" fields are hidden. This is good. I'd like that same condition to work for all five sections, but it doesn't.

    Many thanks for any help you can offer.

  • liyam
    Replied on April 22, 2017 at 2:10 AM

    Hello,

    I have been studying your form and found that upon the selection that you wish to add another entry, you decided there to show everything. This then overrules the condition which is supposed to be just for the Source, resulting to a conflict in conditions.

    Here is a sample screenshot where one condition is overruled by the other:

    Why are some of my conditional settings not rendering properly? Image 1 Screenshot 30

    If we are to personify the conditions, it's like this:

    Condition 1: Yes, show a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h.
    Condition 2: Selection in c should show d and e.
    Condition 1: No you can't tell them that. I have already ordered to show d and e. 

    The same applies with your condition on selecting Cash, Check, In-Kind. Your conditions here all use the "SHOW" command. On the ruling condition on the screenshot above, you have selected elements to show already. So they are no longer following the command for showing under Cash, Check, or In-kind. 

    You can fix this by removing the elements under the 1st ruling condition on showing everything under #2, #3, #4, and #5. So this somewhat gives an impression of a chain in command to something like this:

    Condition 1: Yes show a, b, c
    Condition 2: Selection in C should show d and e.

    Why are some of my conditional settings not rendering properly? Image 2 Screenshot 41

    Hope this makes sense. But if you are still having difficulty understanding this please let us know.

     

  • odnd
    Replied on April 22, 2017 at 2:43 AM
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