Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

[LukeS]

I have an action button in a grid that I am using to redirect the user to a new page and do some custom xbasic processing on the grid. The standard grid submit button is used to save the gird data as normal. The problem is that the action button I created can be clicked even if new data is entered in the grid (is dirty) thus deleting any changes the user has made at that time. I am trying to add a grid submit to the action javascript onclick event of the action button I created to force a grid update before redirecting to my custom page but am having little luck.

This is the code I am using in the inline javascript of an action javascript action but it errors out with a bunch of script errors

{Grid}.submitGridPart();

I assume I am using the wrong code to submit the grid or missing something basic here.

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

The problem is that the action button I created can be clicked even if new data is entered in the grid (is dirty) thus deleting any changes the user has made at that time.

You can use a show/hide expression like this, then the button will only show after the record has been saved: data.rowNumber > 0

I am trying to add a grid submit to the action javascript onclick event of the action button I created to force a grid update before redirecting to my custom page but am having little luck.

I don't understand what you are trying to do here?

[LukeS]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

I am trying to add a grid submit to the action javascript onclick event of the action button I created to force a grid update before redirecting to my custom page but am having little luck.

I don't understand what you are trying to do here?

I was trying to add a grid submit action to the action button i created so the user would not have to click the submit button, hopefully that makes sense.

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

If all you want to do is redirect to another page after submitting, look in the grid's properties for that action. You don't need a custom button to do that.

[LukeS]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

I do not want to always redirect after submit only to preform this one action that is only sometimes done. That is why I created a custom button for it.

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

So the custom button redirects somewhere else at the user's discretion. If that is so, try what I said in post #2.

[LukeS]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

I tired using the enable expression "grid.isDirty = FALSE" which partially works the only problem is it does not disable the control until another field is selected after a change, so a user could change one value on the grid and still be able to click the custom action button I added. This is true also with the show hide expression also.

So the custom button redirects somewhere else at the user's discretion. If that is so, try what I said in post #2.

The action button I added is used to process the contents of a grid and output them to a custom text file that is done on the A5 server side and the user does not handle the output file. This is used to interface with a really old legacy system that only accepts text files. This is only done when the user wants to update the data to the legacy system, the submit button is renamed "save for later" so the user can save the data in the grid and work on it later before submission final submission.

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

I don't mean to be repetitive, but if you want to disable a control, you can.

Have you tried: grid.rowState = 'view' in your enable or show'hide?

[LukeS]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

I don't mean to be repetitive, but if you want to disable a control, you can.

Have you tried: grid.rowState = 'view' in your enable or show'hide?

That did the trick! Thanks. I was able to find the list of show/hide expressions (below) and most are self explanatory but I do not know what a rowstate of 'view' means, is this documented somewhere?
http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/How+to...unctions+V10.5
http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/Grid+C...m+Fields+V10.5


I also was able to get my original method working so the client side hide is not needed, I had the submit code wrong. I am setting the javascript onclick action of the extra action button to submit the grid before a redirect to new page with action javascript. Here is the correct inline javascript to submit a grid

{grid.object}.submitGridPart();

[Peter.Greulich]

Re: Grid Action Button, Submit new grid data before running button code?

That did the trick! Thanks. I was able to find the list of show/hide expressions (below) and most are self explanatory but I do not know what a rowstate of 'view' means, is this documented somewhere?

It's not exactly documented, but here is where I found it...

grid_row_state.gif

Glad it's working for you!