get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

[richard2007]

my dialog sends a templated email to a customer, i thought it would be a good idea to allow the user to make any changes to the email before it is sent.

Im sure there is a better way but so far this is what i have.

• in the dialogs OnDialogInitiliaze event, i populate a text area control with the templated text.
• the user can make any changes they want in the text area control.
• a button on the dialog runs an xBasicFunction to send an email - this button does not submit the dialog

i am trying to read the value of the control (which is not being submitted.)

pm.message = e.control.email_template

but the xBasicFunction can not find the e.contol.email_template, so how can i get access to the data on the control?

i hope this makes sense.

[-Jinx-]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

Try
e.dataSubmitted.YOURCONTROLNAME
or
e._currentRowDataNew.YOURCONTROLNAME

putting a debug(1) in your exbasic and exploring the e object helps a lot in these situations also. Seems I'm always digging around in there for stuff (alpha gold) haha.

If you are using an Ajax callback it shouldn't matter if fields are bound or updateable. It still goes into the dataSubmitted part of the e object as near as I can tell. I just tested it by unbinding and setting a field to not updateable and it still put it in there.

[richard2007]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

thanks Jinx, e._currentRowDataNew.YOURCONTROLNAME worked fine.

I had tried e.datasubmitted with no success.

[richard2007]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

ok, now i need to set the value of the control.email_template based upon the value of a field in the dialog.

how do i get access to the value in the field 'Lead_Stage'?

e.control - doesn't work
e.datasubmitted - doesn't work
e._currentrowdatanew - doesn't work

this is in the onDialogInitialise event.

thanks

[-Jinx-]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

Is "Lead_Stage" being populated from a table? If so, the table would need to be populated before you could set the value to the other control. You'll see that when you enter:
e.control.email_template = "Fred"
Into your oninitialize event it will work. If you don't have a value yet for the other field though, how can you set your email template to it?

So, if you populate in your oninitialize event It MAY work to set this in your ondialogexecute event:
e.control.email_template = e.rtc.control.lead_stage

Or you could just do it with javascript on the client side.

[richard2007]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

the field lead_stage is already populated from a table when the dialog is loaded.

I need access to this field but I keep getting a message that the sub element cant be found.

my ondialoginitialise event needs to look like

if e.control.lead_stage = "New Lead" then
e.control.email_template = "template here"
end if

[-Jinx-]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

Richard,
What I'm saying is: Isn't your populate action script in your initialize event?
If so, maybe your control doesn't exist at that point. That's why I saiad to try the code in the other event.

Otherwise, if you are calling this dialog from a grid or something and the options in the calling action are correct, what you're looking for might be in e._rtc. At least I think that's the name.

I'll look when I get to work.

[richard2007]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

Really appreciate your help.

it must be that the control I am trying to read 'Lead_Stage' isn't available when I initialize the grid, I also tried onDialogExecute. DialogValidate and AfterDialogValidate are no good for me as im not submitting the dialog at the time I need the script to run.


Anyway I think I have a solution prompted by your comments.

I had a hyperlink to show hide the control 'email_template' so I moved my script to an xBasic function and run this function with the same hyperlink as the show/hide which populates the control as expected.

one small issue with this but I can live with it, when the hyperlink is pressed it shows and then immediately hides the control, maybe this is because it is also running the xBasic function, so the use has to press the hyperlink twice.

[-Jinx-]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

With the link solution it may be a simple timing issue. You could add a timeout to make the show link part of the code wait until after the callback.

Ill still look for the .rtc variable when I get to work.

If you could attach a picture of your calling event that calls the dialog and your oninitialize event in your dialog, that would help.

[-Jinx-]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

I checked out one of my dialogs today.
If you have the button that calls the dialog action set to “Open Dialog Component to Edit the Current Record in a Grid Component or Enter a new record” your data should be under:

e.rtc._data

In the ondialoginitialize event.

So, this would "probably" work in there:

if e.rtc._data.lead_stage = "New Lead" then
e.control.email_template = "template here"
end if

This all depends on how you're calling the dialog though. If you can't do it the way I indicated above you could also pass an argument instead.

[richard2007]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

thanks, ill work on that.

the timeout worked great which I also needed for another post of mine you answered.

thanks for your help, this is a great little feature for our application, email templates are great but the users really wanted something they could amend and this gives us that.

[-Jinx-]

Re: get the value of a control in to the xbasic functions

No Problem,
I sent you a PM as well that should help you find variables in the future.