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Has anyone else had the experience of upgrading to 4.2 and then finding that custom fields are passing labels rather than values to Views (they were values before the upgrade)?

I'm not sure if this is an upgrade error or if this is me forgetting to set something properly.

I need to conditionally hide a lot of fields and I do it with 0s.

I would love any suggestions about:

1) how to pass values instead of labels

or

2) how to conditionally hide fields based on a label (it's a binary variable, so not complicated, but I'm struggling to find another solution).

Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
-tiffani

Thanks Hershel.

I am trying to create a page that shows students' names and the skills they need to work on.  If they get a skill right on a test, I don't want to show the name of the skill.  If they get a skill wrong, I want the name of the skill to show up.

I have the test results in a Civicrm custom fields, and I'm pulling the data into a View.

I have "correct" answers coded to 0 and "incorrect" answers coded to 2, so, before, I had the View hide empty fields and defined 0 as empty, so correct answers disappeared.

However, now, Views is reading "Correct" and "Incorrect" rather than 0 and 2.  So, nothing gets hidden.

I use the UI to create my views. Do you know if I can put jQuery code in the "rewrite" box?

I would have to figure out how to use jQuery, but knowing that I could use it there would be a good start.

Thanks!
-tiffani

Hi Hershel,

Yes, Lobo confirmed that the functionality that I was using (based on values rather than labels) was actually a bug that's been fixed in 4.2.  So, I was making use of a problem. 

It's funny -- I have a background in statistical analysis -- and of course in that case, values are critical and labels are helpful but never used for analysis, so I was just applying the wrong logic to the "bug v function" issue.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction(s)!  As ever, I need to improve all of my coding skills.
-tiffani