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I have a custom entity called Projects and it has an administrative section on the form. My plan was to use a field I created on the Contacts object called "Group" to use JavaScript to hide/show the administrative section on my Projects form. The form is opened from an entity list and can be read-only or edited and I have the buttons setup on the entity list for this.

My first attempt was to create a hidden input with the "Group" value on the current contact populated using liquid. Then I planned on using custom JavaScript on the form to check that hidden input and hide/show the administrative section properly on the edit form. This doesn't work because the form's JavaScript seems to be encapsulated so that it can only work inside the form and not on the page as a whole. Attempts to retrieve the hidden input by ID result in a null reference with vanilla JavaScript and a length of 0 with JQuery.

It would be nice if I could inject liquid into the form, but I can find no way to do that. Is there any other way of sharing this data to the form?

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justinburch Microsoft Employee on at

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Hi @QuantumRemedy,
The path you attempted is correct, just move your hidden input to the Web Template. E.g.
Page Template: Full Page
Web Template = Projects Template
Web Template: Projects Template (this is your choice - add to existing template, copy & alter, or add the input and use "include" tag to make the existing template below it)

{% extends 'Layout 1 Column' %} {% block main %} <input type="hidden" id="contact_group" val="{{ user.new_contactgroup | default: 'unknown' }}"> {% if page.entityform %} {% entityform id:page.entityform.id %} {% endif %} {% endblock %}

EntityForm "Custom JavaScript"

$(function() { var userGroup = $("#contact_group").val(); // .. show/hide logic ... });

EDIT: I just realized you might be saying the EntityForm is a modal - if that's the case, you'll need to use window.parent (possibly multiple levels of .parent) to access the content in the page with the list & hidden input. Try adding a debugger line in the Entity Form JS and use the dev console to find the right path

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OOlashyn 3,498 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @QuantumRemedy ,

If you only have access to javascript of the form you can use liquid directly there and omit of using hidden fields whatsoever. It will look like this:

$(function() { // crete variable directly instead of input var userGroup = "{{user.new_contactgroup | default: 'unknown'}}"; // .. show/hide logic ... });

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QuantumRemedy 22 on at

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Yes, it is a modal form, I should have stated that is the issue! I think your solution might work but as I was trying it, @OOlashyn posted a solution that entails using liquid inline in the JavaScript and it worked right off. This seems to be a more elegant solution but thank you for your answer as I may need to try what you suggested for other purposes inside modal forms in the future.

Thanks!

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QuantumRemedy 22 on at

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Thanks @OOlashyn! This was exactly what I needed. I didn't know that liquid worked when put in the custom JavaScript, but I'm not sure why I didn't try it before. This is perfect!

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