Issues trying to hide a component based on a value, not sure why this isn't working

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I have a tabbed container called tabbedcontainer2.

I then have a query that runs to get details on a record.

If I add a text field to the form, and add {{d365getplanalyzer.data.foxyflow_planalyzertype}} it shows 300 which is correct, as the foxyflow_planalyzer field in the database has the numeric value of 300.

I want the tabbedcontainer2 to be hidden when {{d365getplanalyzer.data.foxyflow_planalyzertype}} is NOT equal to 300 but I can't seem to get it to work.

I was using ChatGPT which is adamant it should be {{d365getplanalyzer.data.foxyflow_planalyzertype !== 300}}

But that hides it 100% of the time. Even if I remove the ! it always evaluates to true.

I'm just confused, since as mentioned if I drop {{d365getplanalyzer.data.foxyflow_planalyzertype} into a text field, it shows 300 as the value, but no matter what I do it hides the tabbedcontainer. I've even tried changing the formula to be 200, as well as changing the value in the database, but the component always remains hidden.

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The operator for not equal is !=, not !==. I agree this is not intuitive if equals is === (whew read that aloud to a non-programmer!)

And for some reason I have not bothered to dig into, sometimes {{!d365getplanalyzer.data.foxyflow_planalyzertype === 300}} works when {{d365getplanalyzer.data.foxyflow_planalyzertype != 300}} doesn't.

Edit: Actually I am not entirely right. !== does exist, but I have never seen it used.

Begs the question: Is your value 300 or "300"?

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+1 to the above and more on strict inequality (!==) here!