Customize Conditional Formatting of a Field

It is possible to display a section on a form based on what you chose in an option selection or checkbox field by using conditional settings. This can be done on your Situation, Personnel, Roles, Status Board, Task Board and Form templates. 

Conditional Settings on an Option Selection Field

1. Go to the Admin Area
2. Access Templates
3. Click on the Situation template
4. Hover your mouse over the field you will use to trigger a section to appear ('Incident Type' in this example)
5. Click on ⋮ more options menu and copy the Field ID, you can also click on the double paper icon to copy

6. Go to the section that you want to trigger to appear on your form if 'Storm' is selected as the incident type
7. Hover your mouse over the Section title bar and click on ⋮ more options menu
8. Then select Show based on a condition...

9. Type the following into the expression box (example):
   1. thisDocument.data.incident_type === 'storm'

10. Click OK
11. Once finished click Save
12. Select Ok to confirm change, or select Cancel to revert the change

Conditional Settings on Built-In Channel Status field

1. Go to the Admin Area
2. If you haven't already done so, Configure your Channel Statuses
3. Locate your channel status ID from the URL (see image)

4. Access Templates
5. Click on the Situation template
6. Go to the section that you want to trigger to appear on your form if 'Level 1 Incident' is selected as the channel status
7. Hover your mouse over the Section title bar and click on ⋮ more options menu
8. Then select Show based on a condition...
9. Type the following into the expression box (example):
   1. thisDocument.channelStatus === 'channel_status_tpl~level_1_incident'
10. Click OK
11. Once finished click Save
12. Select Ok to confirm change, or select Cancel to revert the change

Conditional settings on a Checkbox field

1. Go to the Admin Area
2. Access Templates
3. Click on the Situation template
4. Hover your mouse over the field you will use to trigger a section to appear ('City Impact' in this example). Click on More Options [⋮] and copy the Field ID (city_impact), you can also click on the double paper icon to copy
5. You will also need the field label of the option that is checked off in the field. We will use High Impact in this example
6. Type the following into the expression box (example):
   1. thisDocument.data.city_impact.high_impact === true
7. Click OK
8. Once finished click Save
9. Select Ok to confirm change, or select Cancel to revert the change