Values from Grid to Dialog2

[Charles Hoens]

I've been searching the board today along with re-watching videos, but I still can't seem to find the answer for this.

I have a simple grid. On it I placed a button which, when pressed, brings up a Dialog2 component with a template for sending out an email.

All of this is working. Problem is, that I am stumped as to how to populate the email fields i.e. the "To", "From" and "Subject" fields. To and From are contained in the grid, while Subject could be hard coded in.

I've tried arguments and JS, but either I'm not putting them in the proper place or something else is going on. I also tried setting the fields to session variables, but I couldn't get that to work either.

Given the fact that email is so often used it would have been nice to have this as it's own component.

Thanks for any pointers.

[agillbb]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

Hey,

Try placing this type of js in your onRenderComplete event:

var po = {dialog.Object}.getParentObject();
if(po) {
  {dialog.Object}.setValue('MYTEXT', po.getValue('MYPARENTTEXT'));
}

[Charles Hoens]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

Thanks. I'm assuming that you are assuming that I know what I am doing....which I do not.

How does this get my value (email address) in the grid over to the dialog2?

Thanks!

[agillbb]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

Ha ha. Good one.
Replace MYTEXT with the name of your Dialog's e-mail field.
Replace MYPARENTTEXT with the name of your parent grid's e-mail field.
All uppercase.

[Charles Hoens]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

Well, I tried it. I put the JS in the onRenderComplete of the dialog2. The name of the variable in the parent is "Email". The name of the variable in the dialog2 is called "to". So this is what I have:

var po = {dialog.Object}.getParentObject();
if(po) {
  {dialog.Object}.setValue('TO', po.getValue('EMAIL'));
}

What I am getting is the load of the dialog2, then a blank pop-up window which I have to close. The field does not get populated.

[GGandhi]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

you can do this in two different ways:
1> dialog pulling information from the parent grid - using parent_object syntax
2> parent grid sending information to child dialog - using window object to carry information
here is the screencast showing both ways, take your pick.
I will add the code at the end of this post.

http://screencast.com/t/JhQDxQkdgsV

http://screencast.com/t/mVjkZgq3

//child dialog pulling information
var po = {dialog.Object}.getParentObject();
if (po) { 
var rn = po._selectedRow;
var from = po.getValue('G','NAME',rn);
var to = po.getValue('G','NAME2',rn);
{dialog.Object}.setValue('NAME1',from );
{dialog.Object}.setValue('NAME2',to );
}

//parent grid sending information
if (window['name1']){
{dialog.Object}.setValue('NAME1',window['name1']);
 }
 if (window['name2']){
{dialog.Object}.setValue('NAME2',window['name2']);
 }

one word of caution if I may,
in the pop up that comes to fill in the information to open the dialog, scroll down to the bottom and uncheck the property "warn if the component is dirty" if you miss that you will get pesky warning sign "you must save or close " something like that and you will never where it is coming from.

[agillbb]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

Hey,
Yes, sorry about leaving out the bit about the selected row...I had hastily copy and pasted the snippet from a file that copied from dialog to dialog without checking the details.

Similar to how Govindan showed above, your code would be this:

var po = {dialog.Object}.getParentObject();
if(po) {
var rn = po._selectedRow;
{dialog.Object}.setValue('TO', po.getValue('G', 'EMAIL', rn));
}

[porjoe]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

Mr Hoens... let us know how you come out with this. Did what Andy and Gandhi show work for you? I did mine with all built in capabilities of V11 and no added code.

If interested, drop me a pm and I'll provide you with a link to a test site where you can judge if what I did would apply to you.

[R19bync]

Values from Grid to Di

No problem. In testing the getTwo code in the Chrome DevTools console, I see the same output as the book.What browser are you using in which you see just function for getTwo?

[Charles Hoens]

Re: Values from Grid to Dialog2

This was great! I was away on a military exercise and couldn't respond earlier.

I got back last night and saw the message and tried it out. It worked perfectly and the video was over and above! Can't thank you enough for your effort on this. I'm sure it will help many others!!!

Charlie