Ravi, Check this use-when="statusId.equals("MARK")" I think this will resolve your problem .
The problem seems to me in your statement (use-when="${statusId!='MARK'}") is first it resolves statusId=='MARK' to true/false and then ${true/false} tries to get the value of true/false from context. Let me know what happened after this. Thanks and Regards -- Chirag Manocha Emforium Software Pvt. Ltd. | ALL-IN Software +91-98735-47457 | +91-98263-19099 Please don't print this Email unless you really need to - this will preserve trees on planet earth. From: "Ravindra Mandre" <raviof...@gmail.com> To: "user" <user@ofbiz.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 7:11:56 PM Subject: Not getting right behavior of use-when when using in multi (form type) form Hi , I am facing problem while using the use-when tag inside the multi form, I have to following form <form name="CommonForm" type="multi" list-name="displayList" use-row-submit="true" separate-columns="true" target="updateSomething" odd-row-style="alternate-row" default-table-style="basic-table hover-bar"> <field name="customTimePeriodId"><display/></field> <field name="statusId"><display/></field> <field name="attrValue" use-when="${statusId!='MARK'}"><text size="5"/></field> <field name="attrValue" use-when="${statusId=='MARK'}"><display/></field> <field name="field3" ><display/></field> <field name="field4" ><display/></field> <field name="updateButton" title="Submit"><submit button-type="button"/></field> <field name="_rowSubmit" title="${uiLabelMap.CommonRowSubmit}"><hidden value="Y"/></field> </form> as expected it should display or text , field depending upon the passed condition but when i am using the use-when tag then the attrValue's display row gets shifted toward the right-side of the form and inserts two extra <td> , which makes forms look very ugly, I am struggling with this from a long time, or some can suggest of other way of using the "use-when " tag, the purpose of doing this is i want to use same form for display and update. Regards Ravindra Mandre