Hi Shaun,
You are correct in that it is not possible to blank out a form in the scenario you suggested. However, after speaking with the Laserfiche Forms team we have come up with a workaround that may work for your use case. The solution is described below.

Basically in this form there are two single lines, and a third field with a helper text on top containing the value of the variable {/_current_step_name}

This third variable is used in JavaScript to control which of the two single lines gets shown.

First in CSS you hide it as such:

#q4 {

  display: none;

}

where q4 is the ID of the third field

and then for the JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {

  var name = $('#q4 .cf-helptext').text();

  //console.log(name);

  if (name == 'User Task') {

    $('#q1').show();

    $('#q2').hide();

  } else if (name == 'User Task (2)') {

    $('#q1').hide();

    $('#q2').show();

  }

});

name would be the current step name

User Task is the first one in the chain, User Task (2) is the second one.

You can keep adding more else ifs for longer chains but that is basically how it works. The one downside to this is if the second reviewer or whoever looks into the HTML they will be able to see the hidden fields. So that is a possible security issue, but if it is an internal form and the people reviewing it are not likely to look into the HTML then it shouldn’t be a problem. The other alternative is making a 3^rd form as you proposed, but it seemed like you wanted to avoid this.
Hope that helps!
Best,
Kevin

Thanks Anita. I still would like to know how to clear a fields value though. Other parts of this form allow a user to do a few things (Like send to someone, mark if it's complete or not, etc) and when it gets sent to the next person I don't want those values displayed. I could design a 3rd form and have unique fields for each new person, but my BP could loop 100 times for 100 people, so I don't want to create a secondary form for these people. 

The action history may work for getting values into another field but I would rather use SQL and if I could blank out field values upon each form load, it should all work out. 

Does anyone know how to blank them out?

Thanks Kevin, this should work for me. Creating a 3rd form wasn't really an option as it wouldn't stop there, I would have had to make 10 or so (to accommodate a loop of 10 people approving). 

I'll test this out and let you know how it goes. Thanks again, very much appreciated. 

Hey Kevin, 

So I have few questions. Where does the 'current_step_name' come from? Is it a system variable that wasn't a part of forms for users to use when building a form? 

I have tried this using your business process even, and line 1 and line 2 show regardless if i'm doing user task or user task (2). I've tried unhiding the 3rd field so I can see if it's even grabbing data and it is not. Are you on a different version of Forms or something? 

I didn't think I would have any issues implementing this but it's not working at all. 

Hi Shaun,
So I have some good news and some bad news. This solution was tested using our yet to be released Forms 10. There is nothing related to 'steps' in Forms 9.2, which is the version I am assuming you are currently on.
However, Forms 10 should be released to Laserfiche VAR's for testing in the near future. I believe it was supposed to be near the end of this month, but has been pushed back to November though that is not confirmed. The full live release should be scheduled for Empower 2016 this January.

Okay so I'm not going crazy haha. Well I'll just have to wait for the VAR release to implement this idea and then January for the customer if all goes well. 

Thanks again for your help!

Thank you Abby, this is exactly what I was after. Much appreciated!