Hiding Screen Elements 

Functions:

Description:

Restrictions:

Transaction Variants and Screen Variants

You can hide screens, menu options, table controls, subscreens, tab strip elements, and so on

May only be used with dialog transactions

Selection Variants

Hiding selection fields

May only be used with selection screens

GuiXT

Hiding fields, pushbuttons, frames, and so on

Cannot be used to hide subscreens

Parameter Transactions

The initial screen of a parameter transaction can be hidden (switched off) if all necessary entries for that screen have already been stored as parameters.

May only be used with dialog transactions

Application-Specific Field Selection

Field attributes Input, Display, Required field, Highlighted and Invisible can be enabled or disabled at runtime.

  • No assignment according to user possible
  • Field selection must be implemented by an application developer

Combinations of the Methods Listed Above

The following rule applys when combining the functions listed above:

Screen elements that have been hidden by a function remain hidden. This is also true the element is set to Display only by another function.