Show/hide conditional field

[dominikkrulak]

I have two conditional fields backgroundColor and backgroundGradientDirection (both dropdown fields).
The background color field has as the title suggests background colors and background gradient colors which depend on background gradient direction.

So for example when I select poppy gradient color the conditional field backgroundGradientDirection shows up to choose directions from. When both fields are saved all work as expected.

But than when I edit the background color field and change it to some plain color like blue the field background gradient direction hides and than I save them the value from backgroundGradientDirection is intact and available on front end.

I'd like to ask if this is expected behavior.

[thupsi]

I think this is expected behavior. The conditions only affect the visibility of fields in the edit entry screen. Front end logic should be handled in your templates.

[dominikkrulak]

Yes that's what it says and I get it. But it isn't logical to me. I rather see the hidden value resetted back to default value (if set by default) or null or "" empty string. Depends on data type.

That would make much less noise on front end.

[thupsi]

Clearing the value when a field is hidden could introduce issues for authors when they switch a field on and off to try things out. I get what you're saying though and maybe there's an elegant way to solve this.