Conditional visible Multi-Row Variable Set

Hi there,

While working with the Multi-Row Variable Set on Catalog Items, a while ago I stumbled on making the Multi-Row Variable Set conditional visible. Conditional visible like having a Multi-Row Variable Set appear upon checking a Checkbox variable. While working on this I came across several Community topics which used Catalog Client Scripts to achieve this. I thought, can't this be done easier? Maybe already through a Catalog UI Policy? Similar to making a Multi-Row Variable Set mandatory?

Default behavior

When setting up a Multi-Row Variable Set, and adding this to a Catalog Item or Record Producer, the default behavior looks something like:

Conditional visible

On the Multi-Row Variable Set record itself, notice there's no visible flag for example.

Though available options which are helpful are:
1) Catalog Client Scripts
2) Catalog UI Policies

Catalog UI Policy

When adding a Catalog UI Policy and the Catalog UI Policy Actions on the Catalog Item level (not on the Multi-Row Variable Set level!), notice the available Variables on the Catalog UI Policy Action:

The Variable name field will list all Variables and all Multi-Row Variable Sets! Knowing this, is the actual gem of this whole story 🙂 Simply select the Multi-Row Variable Set within the Variable name field, set the Visible field to false, and check the Clear the field value field.
On the Catalog UI Policy, set up your condition. Because we've chosen to apply Clear the field value and Visible false, your condition on the Catalog UI Policy should evaluate to false. Read about this in one of my previous articles: Clear the field value / Clear the variable value.

Result

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And that's it actually. Hope you like it. If any questions or remarks, let me know!

Kind regards,
Mark

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