#states and form names

Posted by lnicks on January 4, 2013 at 2:18am

Very new to working with D7, worked on D6 for years though, and I'm trying life without conditional fields.

I'm trying to change a state of two groups of check boxes in the node form, and I can't get it to work.

I have two fields:

field_organization
field_administrative_division

I want 'field_administrative_division' to appear based on one of three values selected in 'field_organization'.

This is the code base I'm using in a custom module. I've used every variant I can think of from documentation and other suggestions, and I get zero results:

<?php 		
 $form['field_administrative_division']['#states'] = array(
    'visible' => array(
      ':input[name="field_organization"]' => array('checked' => TRUE),
    ),
  );

I've read there could be some naming issues with the fields, but the field names are not quite so straightforward with things like 'field_organization[und][Administrative]' for the checkbox I'm wanting to trigger, and the field for division has similar names (field_administrative_division[und][1] for the first checkbox)

I've read all sorts of other ideas, and tried many, but nothing is working. I don't know if its syntax, something with checkboxes, or names. I am also wondering if it's just something simple like no initial condition being set.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Comments

Maybe have two solutions

Posted by gaofengzzz on January 4, 2013 at 5:03am

If i did not misunderstand.
(1)go to the field edit form (eg:admin/structure/types/manage/YOURCONTENTTYPE/fields/YOURFIELD). In the 'Allowed values list' textarea, you can input 'KEY|VALUE' for you checkboxes.
(2)if (1) did not solve your problem, maybe you can just change the 'CSS selector', use 'id' instead 'name'.(eg: ':input[id="field_organization-und-Administrative"]' => array('checked' => TRUE),).
hope can help you.
Thanks

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I'm thinking there should be

Posted by Jaypan on January 4, 2013 at 7:08am

I'm thinking there should be no colon (:) in front of 'input'. But maybe you know something I don't.

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Thank you for the

Posted by lnicks on January 4, 2013 at 7:40pm

Thank you for the suggestions, but I have tried all combinations of the above and nothing is working. The module is installed, and there's nothing else in there other than the script I posted, so I'm unsure what else it could be.

Also, I tried it with the colon and without, no results.

I fixed this with the help of

Posted by lnicks on January 4, 2013 at 9:34pm

I fixed this with the help of IRC user danielbeeke:

Turns out I was using hook_form_alter improperly.

I used devel / dsm to get the form id.

drupal_set_message($form_id);

here's the result:

function MYMODULE_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
if ($form_id == 'profile_node_form') {
$form['field_administrative_division']['#states'] = array(
    'visible' => array(
      'input[name="field_organization[und][2]"]' => array('checked' => TRUE),
    ),
  );

}

This may be common sense to most, but I'll clarify in case someone else needs:

You can just inspect the form element itself to get the name of the dependee. You'll need to use the DOM name, not simply 'field_whatever', as with the form, since you're using javascript for the actual function piece.