How to hide text field on initial page load

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Hello,

I have a form with a Yes/No toggle that is defaulted to No. When you switch to Yes it will load a hidden text field.

The functionality works fine. However, when the page initially loads the text field is visible. Switching the toggle to Yes and back to No will hide the text field.

Text field Visible is set to: If(DataCardValue13.Value = true, true)

How do I hide the text field on the initial page load?

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rebeccas 2,591 on at

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Most likely you just need a reset on your toggle. Just making it be "true" does not reset it. On the screens on visible put =UpdateContext({ResetTgl:!ResetTgl}) and then on the Reset of the toggle put =ResetTgl

If that does not fix it working as you would like you can do a local variable instead. Let me know if you need that and I will give you the steps for it.
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Hi @rebeccas...thanks for the quick reply. I tried as you asked but unfortunately it did not change. Text field is still visible on initial load.
rebeccas 2,591 on at

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Try this instead:

Screen:

OnVisible=UpdateContext({showValue:false})

Toggle:

OnCheck=UpdateContext({showValue:true})

OnUncheck=UpdateContext({showValue:false})

This says when you get to the screen don't show this (showValue is a name I put, you can use whatever means something to you) and when they toggle is changed to show true show it and when it is changed to show false hide it.

The only time this method will need a few extra steps is if you have the toggle in an edit form and sometimes the value will open as true and sometimes as false. You can still do it for that but a little different steps.

Let me know if this works better for your case or not.
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This didn't work either. I figured it has something to do with changing the status of the toggle but just not sure how to go about it.
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Sorry...I think I forgot this part...

Change the label you want to show and hide visible property to showValue
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It works!! Shame on me, I should have caught that. Thank you @rebeccas so much for your quick response and help.