Hi,

there are a couple of ways to achieve this, depending on how much control you want and how much effort you're willing to invest:

1) Model / configuration approach

On the backend side you can:

• Create separate subclasses / document classes that use different choice lists for the "document type" property,

• or define different choice lists in BAW and bind only the relevant one to the entry template.

That way the entry template only exposes the reduced list, because the underlying class/property is already restricted to the allowed values.

2) ICN plugin – filter the choice list in a response filter

If you need more dynamic control (e.g. depending on user/role/context), you can use an ICN PluginResponseFilter and modify the returned choice list before it is rendered.

You register a response filter for the relevant service (for example openContentClass / the entry template–related services) and then filter the choiceList.choices array – only leaving the values you want:

"criterias": [
  {
    "...": "...",
    "description": "Type du document",
    "choiceList": {
      "choices": [
        { "displayName": "neededEntry", "value": "neededValue" }
        // keep only the entries you want to expose
      ]
    }
  }
]

In the PluginResponseFilter you:

• inspect the response JSON,

• find the criteria/property for your "document type",

• remove all unwanted entries from choiceList.choices.

3) Simple & pragmatic: one entry template per document type

If you want to keep it really simple, you can also:

• create one entry template per document type,

• pre-fill the document type value,

• and make that property read-only in the entry template.

Then the user never even sees a drop-down – they pick the right entry template, and the document type is fixed and protected.

All three approaches work –

• #3 is the easiest to implement,

• #1 is clean from a modelling perspective,

• #2 gives you the most flexibility at runtime.

Original Message:
Sent: Thu November 20, 2025 05:03 AM
From: Mansour SOW
Subject: Hide certain items in a drop-down list

Hello

 

I use Entry template to display a drop-down list of document types (a drop-down list declared in BAW).

 

I want to hide some of them and display others.

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Mansour SOW
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