Type Specific Captions for a Custom Field
The platform was enhanced in recent years to support different display order numbers on a single custom field by Application Type. This allowed us to finally be able position a single field in different positions on different forms. It would be great if we could also support different captions for that one field by Application Type. The only way to do this today is to create multiple fields for the same purpose and then use the value storage setting to store each discrete field to a master field for reporting purposes.
Dan Eardley
shared this idea
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DavidGray93
commented
As with Roger, we've been using SS Logic of <!--@sslogic(INSERT 1st VARIABLE)-->CHOSEN TEXT
<!--@else if(INSERT 2nd VARIABLE)-->CHOSEN TEXT 2
etc
<!--@end-->Depending on your list view, this can be quite ugly, so we've moved towards using the description field as a means of searching/showing these in list views.
It would be preferable to have an equivalent of the dynamic display order with a dynamic content - it's just cleaner.
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Roger Lindenbach
commented
The way that we have been working around this is to have a generic Caption, and then use sslogic in the Instructions to provide different text based on the different situations. But that's sometimes not possible or aesthetically pleasing, so I have had to make multiple fields for the same question due to just a single word change, which is a pain.
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Cecile LaBore
commented
Use case:
An L1 form field used by 2 programs (ProgA and ProgB) collects data ("Priorities addressed") that is relevant foundation-wide, but in immediate use only for ProgA, so it would be nice to caption the field "Priorities for ProgA" (for ProgA) and "Foundation Priorities" (for ProgB).