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    UX List Auto Suggest / Edit Combo Location or Adding New Record to List at top instead of bottom

    Hoping someone has a workaround for an issue I have been fighting.

    List control, where user can do a lookup in a column / field on a row. Ie PurchaseOrder... they start typing and I invoke the autosuggest lookup when 4 characters are typed. Works great. Except the list of available choices is being rendered off screen at bottom. Scroll bar on screen is all the way to bottom. Have tried putting the UX in an A5W page instead of straight into a tab in the tabbedUI to no avail.
    A second way I thought to deal with it was possibly a setting in the List properties that possibly I could indicate new rows be added to top, instead of at bottom, guaranteeing space on screen. I do not see a way to do that either.
    My workaround to users until I solve it is to tell them to use the + sign in the inplaceditingicon and choose a row well up on the screen.

    Tried changing to another theme, thinking it was CSS. That did not seem to change behavior. The behavior I was expecting was for the autosuggest or edit combo list to render above the row since it was at bottom of screen.
    Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
    Images below

    Thanks

    Wayne

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    Last edited by WayneH; 12-18-2022, 11:55 PM.

    #2
    Ate some dinner and cleared my head a bit. Not solved, but realized the javascript function I call from a controlbar button to add a row, I can just force the new record at top always and give room for the autosuggest dropdown to have screen real estate. Until I figure out why the lookup flows off screen and you cannot scroll to it, I will take away the + inplaceediting icon so that I do not have to explain to users to not add records towards bottom, as they inevitably will.

    {Dialog.object}.f_NewLine = function() {

    var listObj = {dialog.object}.getControl('LEDGERLIST')
    var count = listObj._data.length;
    //add a new row at bottom of list
    //listObj.editInplaceAddRow(count);
    listObj.editInplaceAddRow(-1);
    //bush fix to add row at top and until I figure out why autosuggest shows up half offscreen, took away the inplaceediting icon or add row

    }​
    Last edited by WayneH; 12-19-2022, 02:06 AM.

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      #3
      What's behind the Window Body Style you high lighted - I haven't used List Controls for some years now - But I see you also talk about a ControlBars and also use in-place editing - the real thing your should be asking - I have these tables and when it displays and I tap on a column I want .... to happen how - how should I be going about it. Its very easy for your code to disappear up itself when it buried all over the place. Also why is their an auto suggest when you already know the PO# - is it the items in the PO?
      So in plain speak - what do you want to do.

      Pete
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      Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
      Albert Einstein, (attributed)
      US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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        #4
        Thanks Pete. I will take a look at the body style. So far my inserting the row at the top was a hit with users.
        I will give some workflow thought as you suggest. The purpose of the page is for accounts payable folks to track incoming invoices, replacing a longstanding excel sheet which is not very secure.
        While they know the purchase order number associated with the invoice, a lookup is necessary to ensure that the supplier has indicated the correct one and the lookup also has the benefit of showing if that PO is already closed/billed against, which would allow the clerk to flag the invoice in one go.
        Side benefit is it then autofills pertinent info on the line, saving data entry.
        I will put some thought into doing some type validation against the PO number without a lookup, then do a call of some sort to fill in the fields that match. Possibly indicate in a column if the PO is closed (its status).
        Your earlier advice pushed me towards controlbars, which have been fantastic. I need to do some serious learning time on Viewboxes and see where those take me. My initial playing with them is very powerful, but I will need to get a handle on some basic hmtl styling to get them to look how I want.
        Again thanks for your reply. Much appreciated.

        Wayne

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          #5
          but I will need to get a handle on some basic hmtl styling to get them to look how I want.
          Nice job Wayne, - re above - remember controlbars can exist anywhere in a UX they don't need to be exclusively in headers or footers. Also you can just paste your existing html into the controlbar layout by selecting edit line, then change line type default to custom. you can do the same thing in an items html text.

          Well done.

          Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
          Albert Einstein, (attributed)
          US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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            #6
            I wrote something like what you are doing some years ago - all viewbox - millions of records. This is a first cut video of the method - the end result was mind blowing.

            https://www.screencast.com/t/SY0RJDK4X

            Pete
            Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
            Albert Einstein, (attributed)
            US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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              #7
              Pete that is incredible.

              #lifegoals

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                #8
                Thanks I sent a better demo of the final to you as a private message. - was very cool and fun to do.
                Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
                Albert Einstein, (attributed)
                US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

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