I have a call queue that is set up like Demonstration #14. When someone initially fills out the form, a question event fires to show a hidden field based on a user's choice in a combo box. This works on the initial fill, but if the user has selected the choice that unhides the box, fills in the previoiusly hidden box, then submits the form and reopens it for editing from the list by clicking the edit pencil, the combo box choice is still the choice that was saved, but the event doesn't fire and the previously hidden field is hidden again. The only way to bring it back is to select a different choice from the combo box, then selecting the choice that unhides again to get the event to fire. I want this field to stay unhidden even on editing, without having to choose twice from the combo to uhide it again. Any help would be appreciated.

I created a field called HiddenStatus, made it hidden, set it sort order=1, and I'm giving it the same value as Status (the field where the initiation response is coming from for the event) on bind. I created three events for the three choice that should un-hide the hidden field. When I revisit the form, the hidden field still doesn't show. I un-hid the new field HiddenStatus and it is pulling in the correct choice for the combo. I'm not sure if I didn't do something correctly or what.

One thing that I didn't do is remove the events on the un-hidden Status field. I figured that if I did, the hidden field that I want to show wouldn't show while the formis being filled out initially, since the HiddenStatus field would not have the correct value until returning to the form for editing.

Thanks, richard, for your help. If you have any suggestions that will fix the problem that I'm having now, please let me know.

Thanks -ToddJ

I did not notice the Hidden Field type befoer I saw it mentioned today in AB's post about the same problem (sorry for posting a second topic on this, I did not find AB's until last Tuesday). I had been using a combo for the type of my HiddenStatus field. I tried changing the question to that type, but didn't remember to remove the rule to hide until forced visible, which I had checked. I unchecked this and now my field is showing on load when it needs to!

Thanks Chad, Richard, AB and everyone else who gave me a clue that finally came together as the solution! I'm going to update the other topic in the hopes that it will help. -ToddJ