Turn off writing system views in a field

[Hugh Paterson]

Greetings, 

For several reasons we have multiple writing systems. This means that for some fields we have writing systems we will never use.  We want to not display these writing systems on a per field basis.  Is this possible?

all the best,
- Hugh Paterson III

[Beth-docs Bryson]

Hugh, did you get an answer to this?

Check out the blue arrow that appears to the left of a field when your cursor is in that field.  For most fields, there is a “Writing Systems” option that gives you this kind of control.  Experiment with it, and see what kinds of options it gives you for hiding and bringing back WSs for a specific field.  Also, for many fields, you can also get to that menu by right-clicking on the field name.

Note that there are several different places in FLEx to hide writing systems, and some of these places have different behavior.   For many of these controls, what they really mean is “hide this writing system when it has no contents”.  It doesn’t hide that slice altogether. I believe that is the behavior for the WS controls in the blue arrow (the per-field ones).  However, try it yourself and see what you find, and double check in the Helps.

-Beth

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[Hugh Paterson]

Thank you. Yes andreas wrote off list but i failed to notice that in my response. 

all the best,
- Hugh Paterson III

On Aug 3, 2017 2:31 PM, "Beth-docs Bryson" <beth-doc...@sil.org> wrote:

Hugh, did you get an answer to this?

Check out the blue arrow that appears to the left of a field when your cursor is in that field.  For most fields, there is a “Writing Systems” option that gives you this kind of control.  Experiment with it, and see what kinds of options it gives you for hiding and bringing back WSs for a specific field.  Also, for many fields, you can also get to that menu by right-clicking on the field name.

Note that there are several different places in FLEx to hide writing systems, and some of these places have different behavior.   For many of these controls, what they really mean is “hide this writing system when it has no contents”.  It doesn’t hide that slice altogether. I believe that is the behavior for the WS controls in the blue arrow (the per-field ones).  However, try it yourself and see what you find, and double check in the Helps.

-Beth

On Jul 31, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Hugh Paterson <hugh_p...@sil.org> wrote:

Greetings, 

For several reasons we have multiple writing systems. This means that for some fields we have writing systems we will never use.  We want to not display these writing systems on a per field basis.  Is this possible?

all the best,
- Hugh Paterson III

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