Setting Form Fields to Hidden Upon Executing Digital Signature

[Les Fiest]

I have a form that has various fields that either display data, require input, or auto-calcuate data, that is strictly for internal use, and I've set those fields to "Visible but does't print", so the form looks clean upon printing.  However, after digitally signing the form, the form is actually emailed to another agency and printed by them.  My concern is that the other agency may be initially confused by all these additional fields on the form that are meaningless to them, and I'm wondering if there's any script that can be used to make specific fields change to "Hidden" only upon executing a digital signature to the form.

[ls_rbls]

You can achieve a similar workflow with JavaScript or employ Adobe Sign in your workflow.

[Les Fiest]

Follow-up: I found another post regarding modifying field names with the same naming convention, and "." followed by the reamaining specific naming convention, and then executing the following script upon digital signature:

getField("SubAmount").display = display.hidden;

I then renamed the SubAmount fields from "SubAmount11", "SubAmount21" & "SubAmount31", to "SubAmount.11", "SubAmount.21" & "SubAmount.31"

The above worked perfect to make the fields hidden upon digitally signing the document, but now I can't seem to total these three fields in a 4th field that I need to see.  The 4th field has simplified field notation: SubAmount.11+SubAmount.21+SubAmount.31 but the result displays "0.00" rather than the actual sum of these three fields.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

Add a back-slash before the period in the Simple Field Notation formula, or still with the original naming scheme but just duplicate the line of code to hide them, adjusting the field name in each one.

[JR Boulay]

You should use a custom metadata to store this value.

Hidden fields on a signed page is not a good practise and could be seen as an attempted forgery.