Configure the Display Conditions Of a Panel Element

The display conditions of a panel element determine when the element is visible, read-only, or cleared.

To configure the display conditions of a panel element:

  1. In Configurator, expand Pages in the configuration tree to display the existing pages.

  2. Select the page containing the panel that you want to edit.

  3. Click Edit.

  4. On the General page, select the panel that contains the panel element that you want to edit.

  5. Click Edit.

    The panel's Properties dialog box appears.

  6. Click the Fields tab.

    The layout of the current panel elements appears.

  7. Select the panel element that you want to edit in the list.

  8. Click Edit.

    The panel element's Properties dialog box appears.

  9. Click the Conditions tab.

    The field's condition options appear.

  10. Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

    If you use a property on multiple pages, only the value from the last page shown will be saved. You may want to restrict users from editing the property on other pages by enabling the Field is read-only and cleared option for the property on the pages that should be read-only.

  11. Click OK.

Panel element display conditions
Option Description

Field is visible

Makes the element visible. Select either Always or This expression must be True, and click the Meridian Enterprise Script Editor button A small gray button that has a pen and paper on it. to build a VBScript expression that will be evaluated to determine when the element is visible.  For information on using VBScript for configuration expressions including their limitations, see Configuration Expressions.

Field is read-only and cleared

Makes the element read-only and disable user input. Select either Always or This expression must be True, and click the Meridian Enterprise Script Editor button A small gray button that has a pen and paper on it. to build a VBScript expression that will be evaluated to determine when the element is visible.  For information on using VBScript for configuration expressions including their limitations, see Configuration Expressions.

Apply to entire batch

Applies the values that users type for this element for the first document of each document type in a batch to all of the other documents of the same document type in the same batch. For this to succeed, the user must also select the Apply for all other documents of this type option in the wizard page during batch processing.

Note:

This setting is set to Always by default.

Select either Always or This expression must be True, and click the Meridian Enterprise Script Editor button A small gray button that has a pen and paper on it. to build a VBScript expression that will be evaluated to determine when the element is visible.  For information on using VBScript for configuration expressions including their limitations, see Configuration Expressions.

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