problems disabling a button on a grid

[acceptthis]

I have a button on the row of a grid. I want to disable all the buttons except the current one (the row the user is currently on). I wrote this function to get the current row:

function getRow(){
var rowNum = {grid.Object}.getSelectedRow();
return rowNum;
}​

Then, in the button's property at the enable expression property, I entered this code:

data.rowNumber = getRow()

It worked great upon loading, but when I moved to a different row in the grid, I thought the button on the old row would become disabled, but it remains enabled.

What am I missing? Is it a bug, or do I misunderstand the enable property? Do I have to disable it at the onRowBlur event?

[acceptthis]

If anyone has a minute, check to see if it does the same thing to you...

I used northwind, so you would have to change the query to match your file location.

[Ted Giles]

Well as no one joined in, FWIW my experience of enabling buttons specific to a record row in Desk Top is that have to disable the button when the row changes.
If the button is specific to the row data/key field/record #, then you need a way of letting it know whether it is required or not.
If the button is a generic one, and appears when the row has focus, that is easier to handle than a button on each row.
Then you can just show the button(s) required at the row level.
Not sure how you have configured the form/.grid/ view. Send us a pic.

[acceptthis]

Hey Ted,

Thanks for the reply. It's a generic button. I just want it to show when the row has focus, no other requirements.

What took me down this rabbit hole is a problem with the button performing calculations on the old row if I immediately select a different row's button. For example, if I'm on row.Number three, and I click on the button of row.Number two, the button performs calculations from the fields in row three (the old row). If I select the row first and then click the button, it works fine. That's why I thought my simple solution would be to disable the button until the row is selected, but that's proving to be just as complicated. If the button is still enabled after I move to another row, I have the chance that the button can be clicked, and I have my old problem again.

Can and how do I disable the button once it loses focus? Is there a javascript command I can have run on the onBlur event? Or, do I have a way of ensuring that the button selected is

[Ted Giles]

Can't you change the button immediately after the calculations are completed?
As in, set it to its original state when it works.

[madtowng]

depending on how current your build is, you might need to adjust your rowNum function to return either true or false

[acceptthis]

Ted,
Changing the status immediately, makes sense, but what method is there for disabling a field or button on a grid? This method

buttonListObj.setDisabled(value, disable);

is for a button on a UX, but is there something like this for a field/button on a grid? I can't find anything.

Madtowng,
I'm using an older build.

[Ted Giles]

https://documentation.alphasoftware....a%20Button.xml

That's all got.
If it's too difficult, change the design.

Can we see the layout of the panel/page/grid?

[acceptthis]

Thanks for the direction, but i don't think that will work. That is the documentation for a button on a UX. This is in a grid.
Here's a picture.
I might have to change the design or figure out another way. I don't feel like changing the whole thing, but maybe that's what I need to do. I didn't think this was going to be so difficult.

[Ted Giles]

Thanks. That explains it a bit better.
Any reason why all the calcs are not run anyway?

[Ted Giles]

Hang on!
You have a button for Deleting a record, so can you replicate the code to carry out the recalculation?
That is unless that doesn't work as expected either.

[madtowng]

Let's hold that thought.
Brad, now that I see what you're working on, how manual is your payroll system (are you using paper-based cards/sheets, or something electronic)?
With a little background information, we can absolutely automate.
Just to explain, for the companies I work for, the pay-week starts on Saturday, ends the following Friday. We hold back one check, and distribute compensation
the Monday of a new payroll period. Way more work than I want to waste my time on week after week.
My payday calculator lets you click on a day, then presents payday information about that day.

We can easily talk more about this. Just this year, I wrote a project that takes the information downloaded from a digital time-clock, calculates the hours,
checks for vacation/pto hours, and other payroll adjustments (corrections from previous payroll, loans, etc..), then puts the information into a spreadsheet
prefilled with employee information that I then send back to our payroll company.

[acceptthis]

Ted,
I post other things with the calc button besides just math. Maybe I could put all the commands in a function of the "Calculated field expression" property of the hours field. I don't think it would hurt anything to have it post each time it also calculates.
The button has also given me control over things while debugging. I recently moved the button commands from the button to the onFocus event of hours, so each time you move to the hours field, it will re-calculate and post. I still have a problem with disabling/enabling the hours field that I have with a button, but it is less likely that a user would click on the hours field.
As for the delete button, that's not a button in the picture but the built in part of the grid that give you the ability to delete several rows at a time. I don't know how to access that code for that column.

[acceptthis]

Gregg,

It is a payroll entry system, but very basic and manual entry. The employees either text us each night or manually fill in their hours on a card. We then enter the data manually before running payroll, and then enter the totals in Quickbooks. We've never had more than 10 employees, so it hasn't been that time consuming for us. As for vacation, pto, loans, etc., all that stuff is done through Quickbooks. I mostly enter it in this form first because it's linked to my jobs and customers, which gives me the ability to track the time per job and match it with my estimates.

Is the digital time clock something you created? Is it something on the server that the employee uses to enter? We are a small landscape company, so all our guys are out working and wouldn't have access to my server here, and I just use the developmental server and don't have/use a server license.

[Ted Giles]

Ooh! Lanscaping!
Search Andy Sturgeon in the UK
I worked on this stuff as admin/costing/ design.
My web toolset doesn't include Alpha as I have a different one.
What you are after is interesting.
If your workforce can access 3g or 4g, it should be a breeze on a phone and in SQL on a server so you could grab it.

Sorry Gregg. ( another one off the list)