diff --git a/language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_articles_category.ini b/language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_articles_category.ini
index bdcce35170e3d..018eb4e2219bb 100644
--- a/language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_articles_category.ini
+++ b/language/en-GB/en-GB.mod_articles_category.ini
@@ -35,11 +35,12 @@ MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFIELDFORMAT_DESC="Please enter in a valid date f
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFIELDFORMAT_LABEL="Date Format"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFILTERING_DESC="Select Date Filtering Type."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFILTERING_LABEL="Date Filtering"
-MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_ENDDATE_DESC="If Date Range is selected above, please enter an End Date."
+MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_ENDDATE_DESC="Please enter an End Date."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_ENDDATE_LABEL="To Date"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_EXCLUDEDARTICLES_DESC="Please enter each Article ID on a new line."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_EXCLUDEDARTICLES_LABEL="Article IDs to Exclude"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_GROUP_DISPLAY_LABEL="Display Options"
+; The following string is deprecated and will be removed with 4.0
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_GROUP_DYNAMIC_LABEL="Dynamic Mode Options"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_GROUP_FILTERING_LABEL="Filtering Options"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_GROUP_GROUPING_LABEL="Grouping Options"
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MODE_DESC="Please select the mode you would like to
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MODE_LABEL="Mode"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MONTHYEARFORMAT_DESC="Please enter in a valid date format. See: http://php.net/date for formatting information."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MONTHYEARFORMAT_LABEL="Month and Year Display Format"
-MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_RELATIVEDATE_DESC="If Relative Date is selected above, please enter in a numeric day value. Results will be retrieved relative to the current date and the value you enter."
+MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_RELATIVEDATE_DESC="Please enter a numeric value. Results will be retrieved relative to the current date and the value you enter."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_RELATIVEDATE_LABEL="Relative Date"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_SHOWAUTHOR_DESC="Select Show if you would like the author (or author alias instead, if available) to be displayed."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_SHOWCATEGORY_DESC="Select Show if you would like the category name displayed."
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_SHOWINTROTEXT_DESC="Select Show if you would like th
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_SHOWINTROTEXT_LABEL="Introtext"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_SHOWONARTICLEPAGE_DESC="Select to Show or hide Article List from Article Pages. This means that the module will only display itself dynamically on Category Pages."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_SHOWONARTICLEPAGE_LABEL="Show on Article Page"
-MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_STARTDATE_DESC="If Date Range is selected above, please enter a Starting Date."
+MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_STARTDATE_DESC="Please enter a Starting Date."
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_STARTDATE_LABEL="Start Date Range"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_ASCENDING_VALUE="Ascending"
 MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_CREATED_VALUE="Created Date"
diff --git a/modules/mod_articles_category/mod_articles_category.xml b/modules/mod_articles_category/mod_articles_category.xml
index 7b702044ca9ec..14d32c0851df9 100644
--- a/modules/mod_articles_category/mod_articles_category.xml
+++ b/modules/mod_articles_category/mod_articles_category.xml
@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@
 					<option value="normal">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_NORMAL_VALUE</option>
 					<option value="dynamic">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_DYNAMIC_VALUE</option>
 				</field>
-			</fieldset>
-
-			<fieldset
-				name="dynamic"
-				label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_GROUP_DYNAMIC_LABEL"
-			>
 
 				<field
 					name="show_on_article_page"
@@ -47,6 +41,7 @@
 					class="btn-group btn-group-yesno"
 					default="1"
 					filter="integer"
+					showon="mode:dynamic"
 					>
 					<option value="1">JSHOW</option>
 					<option value="0">JHIDE</option>
@@ -129,6 +124,7 @@
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_CATDEPTH_DESC"
 					default="1"
 					filter="integer"
+					showon="show_child_category_articles:1"
 				/>
 
 				<field
@@ -247,6 +243,7 @@
 					label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATERANGEFIELD_LABEL"
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATERANGEFIELD_DESC"
 					default="a.created"
+					showon="date_filtering!:off"
 					>
 					<option value="a.created">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_CREATED_VALUE</option>
 					<option value="a.modified">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_MODIFIED_VALUE</option>
@@ -262,6 +259,7 @@
 					showtime="true"
 					size="22"
 					filter="user_utc"
+					showon="date_filtering:range"
 				/>
 
 				<field
@@ -273,6 +271,7 @@
 					showtime="true"
 					size="22"
 					filter="user_utc"
+					showon="date_filtering:range"
 				/>
 
 				<field
@@ -282,6 +281,7 @@
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_RELATIVEDATE_DESC"
 					default="30"
 					filter="integer"
+					showon="date_filtering:relative"
 				/>
 
 			</fieldset>
@@ -344,24 +344,27 @@
 					<option value="category_title">JCATEGORY</option>
 				</field>
 
+				<field
+					name="month_year_format"
+					type="text"
+					label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MONTHYEARFORMAT_LABEL"
+					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MONTHYEARFORMAT_DESC"
+					default="F Y"
+					showon="article_grouping:year,month_year"
+				/>
+
 				<field
 					name="article_grouping_direction"
 					type="list"
 					label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_ARTICLEGROUPINGDIR_LABEL"
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_ARTICLEGROUPINGDIR_DESC"
 					default="ksort"
+					showon="article_grouping!:none"
 					>
 					<option value="krsort">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_DESCENDING_VALUE</option>
 					<option value="ksort">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_ASCENDING_VALUE</option>
 				</field>
 
-				<field
-					name="month_year_format"
-					type="text"
-					label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MONTHYEARFORMAT_LABEL"
-					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_MONTHYEARFORMAT_DESC"
-					default="F Y"
-				/>
 			</fieldset>
 
 			<fieldset
@@ -401,6 +404,7 @@
 					label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFIELD_LABEL"
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFIELD_DESC"
 					default="created"
+					showon="show_date:1"
 					>
 					<option value="created">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_CREATED_VALUE</option>
 					<option value="modified">MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_OPTION_MODIFIED_VALUE</option>
@@ -413,6 +417,7 @@
 					label="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFIELDFORMAT_LABEL"
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_DATEFIELDFORMAT_DESC"
 					default="Y-m-d H:i:s"
+					showon="show_date:1"
 				/>
 
 				<field
@@ -474,6 +479,7 @@
 					description="MOD_ARTICLES_CATEGORY_FIELD_INTROTEXTLIMIT_DESC"
 					default="100"
 					filter="integer"
+					showon="show_introtext:1"
 				/>
 
 				<field
@@ -497,6 +503,7 @@
 					default="1"
 					filter="integer"
 					class="btn-group btn-group-yesno"
+					showon="show_readmore:1"
 					>
 					<option value="1">JSHOW</option>
 					<option value="0">JHIDE</option>
@@ -509,6 +516,7 @@
 					description="JGLOBAL_SHOW_READMORE_LIMIT_DESC"
 					default="15"
 					filter="integer"
+					showon="show_readmore:1[AND]show_readmore_title:1"
 				/>
 
 			</fieldset>