https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/conditional-logic-and-hidden-fields-workaround Gravity Support Forums Topic: Conditional Logic and Hidden Fields Workaround en-US Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:59:54 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/conditional-logic-and-hidden-fields-workaround#post-41197 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:43:47 +0000 Capacitron 41197@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Excellent. Thank you much. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/conditional-logic-and-hidden-fields-workaround#post-41193 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:33:36 +0000 Carl Hancock 41193@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Why not use the drop down and not the hidden fields?</p> <p>Using the drop down you would set the label of the choice to the friendly name, then enable values and set the value of the choice to the filename. Then configure the merge tag to output the value rather than the label.</p> <p>For example, see this screenshot:</p> <p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/185347/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20Shot%202011-11-15%20at%204.32.26%20PM.png" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/185347/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20Shot%202011-11-15%20at%204.32.26%20PM.png</a></p> <p>Then for the merge tag for that drop down you would add :value to the end of it like this:</p> <p>{My Field Name:1:value}</p> <p>That would output the value of that field rather than the friendly label. In this case it would be your file name, which your user didn't see... they just saw the friendly label.</p> <p>You can find merge tag documentation here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/conditional-logic-and-hidden-fields-workaround#post-41188 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:14:29 +0000 Capacitron 41188@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>What I am attempting to do is to have users select a background image from a drop down and have the "name-of-my-pic.jpg' value get passed to a Post Body. I have it working but it is not elegant. I wanted to utilize Hidden Fields but they don't allow for conditional logic.<br /> What might be a better approach?</p> <p>See: <a href="http://awesomescreenshot.com/054oe4df0" rel="nofollow">http://awesomescreenshot.com/054oe4df0</a> (FYI: screen shot url is only good for 3 days) </p>