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You can use this rule to change the state of a step in a form. A step can be in one of four states: shown, hidden, enabled, and disabled. New steps are shown and enabled by default; this can be changed in the Flow designer. Any changes you make to a step’s status in the business rule override the default state set in the flow definition. Hide/show step rule configuration

Title

The first part of the business rule lets you define a title for your rule and select the event on which it operates. The default title is the standard FlowForma rule name; change it by deleting the text and entering your own. In the event field you determine when the rule is executed. For a flow this can occur when the form is loaded, started, or completed. For a step this can occur when the step is started, saved, or completed. For questions it can occur when the question is updated.

Rule condition(s)

The second part of the business rule lets you set conditions. These are not required, but if entered they control when the rule is executed in relation to other items in the form.

Rule actions

  • Step: the drop-down lists all the steps in the current flow. Select the step you want to apply a rule to.
  • Action: show, hide, enable, or disable the step.
  • Click [+] to add additional steps or actions.
  • Enable automatic rule reversal: checked by default; automatically triggers the opposite rule conditions. For example, if your original rule is “show sales employee bonus question if position equal to sales”, the opposite rule is “hide sales employee bonus question if position not equal to sales”. In the reversal, each condition operator is replaced by its opposite (equal to → not equal to, greater than → less than, etc.), “or” becomes “and” and vice versa, and the action is reversed (hide → show, enable → disable).
  • Stop execution: if stop execution is enabled and this rule is executed, no other rules are executed.
  • Enabled: rules aren’t saved to a list like questions and steps are, so if you want to stop a rule executing without deleting it, toggle this option to enable or disable the rule.
  • Enable audit: if checked, a record is added to the audit trail when this rule is executed. This option is available when the Compliance feature pack is activated.