Controlling field visibility
There are many reasons you may want to control the visibility of a field or section in a form. Perhaps a given field is only applicable when a certain value is selected in another field; for example, many companies have a Close notes field, which would only be applicable when the State field is set to one of the closed values.
It is however, important to be judicious when deciding whether to create a form view with many fields, and rely on client-side logic to hide them, versus simply using different views for different situations. This is because each field, even when hidden by client-side logic, must load with the form. This increases the load on the user's network, and browser. For a few fields, this is virtually ...
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