These four commands are essential in presenting user friendly and user-proof dialogs in HotDocs. When designing systems, it is generally best practice to show only those variables that require (or may require) an answer and HIDE or GRAY those that are irrelevant. HotDocs provides a rudimentary manner to handle this automatically, but if you are designing complex systems, you may need to use these four commands.
All of these instructions are used in dialog scripts only.
A very brief HotDocs tip today - the CONCEAL and OMIT instruction models. These two commands make working with HotDocs dialogs as answer sources a little cleaner and easier for users to work with.
When working with Dialog Elements, particularly Horizontal Lines, you may wish to add a line (or vertical space) before the dialog element. You COULD add a separate dialog element for the spacing. But that adds to your scripting and dialog management. Instead, you should add a <.pm> Code before and after the Prompt for the Dialog Element.
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