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    Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

    I have a typical UX with submit and reset buttons, what I would like to do is create a "SaveAsNew" button

    The idea being that I open a current record edit it and then "Save As New" meaning I save it as a new record.

    Can anyone give me some direction on accomplishing this?

    As always, thanks for your ideas!
    NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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    Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

    oh just to add a twist - there are two repeating sections as well. so this UX is editing 3 tables. One Parent table with 2 linking tables.
    Its an Invoice, with items in one table and payments in the other.
    NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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      #3
      Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

      I'm curious if someone has a better idea, but one thought that comes to mind is to delete the keys object before submitting.

      The UX keeps track of the existing record in an object of the UX: {dialog.Object}.stateInfo.keys

      I haven't tried this, but if your Save as New button would delete this object then submit, I bet it would save it as a new record.

      If you want to try it, do something like this in the onClick event of your Save as New button:
      delete {dialog.Object}.stateInfo.keys;
      {dialog.Object}.submit();

      If you have any of the record ID fields on the UX (both header and repeating sections), you need to clear those as well, so it doesn't generate a "duplicate ID" error.
      - Dan Hooley
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        #4
        Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

        Hi
        I had a similar case, what I did I duplicate the row and did the edit and save as a new record.
        Not sure if this what you want
        Do a search in the video finder search video: D33

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          #5
          Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

          Thanks for the input guys, I am still trying to find "the" solution, but this is interesting conversation for sure. Anyone with another idea on how to get it done?
          NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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            #6
            Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

            You're probably asking for a world of hurt trying to find a shortcut for this. You have the keys to all your tables... fire off an Xbasic function which grabs the data from each table and performs an insert.

            Doing this safeguards your function from any changes the UX may go through.

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              #7
              Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

              David, I have no idea how to do that! I have learned so much in the last couple of years, but I have never seen an example (that I can relate) of this to even begin to know what to do. Ghandi, was on the verge of showing me some xbasic to grab the form data and fire off an email - but I went another route using reports. There is so much to learn! Between Twin Peaks, the Alpha videos, this forum and a couple of E-books you would think I would know this by now but there are only so many hours in the day and I am burning the candle at both ends!

              I wish Alpha would include a "Save as New" button in the UX offering under Defined Controls. It seems like an easy button to code if you knew what you were doing!
              NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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                #8
                Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                So -

                Curious.

                You can clone a record with {dialog.object}.newRecord():
                Code:
                //Create a new record that is a copy of the existing record, but do not copy the INVOICE_NUMBER and CUSTOMER_ID fields.
                {dialog.object}.newRecord({cloneExisting: true, fieldsToNotCopy: ['INVOICE_NUMBER','CUSTOMER_ID']});
                This doesn't save it immediately. But there are ways to add that.
                Alpha Anywhere latest pre-release

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                  Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                  Learn something new everyday ...I have an entire xbasic routine that I use to duplicate records and now it appears I could have done the same thing with a few lines a JS code.
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                    #10
                    Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                    One line, even...

                    Code:
                    {dialog.object}.newRecord({cloneExisting: true});
                    Alpha Anywhere latest pre-release

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                      #11
                      Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                      I am curious too, Charles.
                      Its an Invoice, with items in one table and payments in the other
                      normally in an invoice you will have items, that is understandable. but why do you have payments too? I am sure you have your reasoning, as I said I am curious.
                      for me I have an invoice which will include all customer_id ( giving access to other info) and items charged, and payments will have customer_id ( giving access to other info) and payments information total of three table, including customer table. is it not the way you have?
                      thanks for reading

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                        Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                        I do have a customers table, an invoice table, a line items(think products), and finally a payments table.
                        The invoice UX is simply the Invoice table, line items and another repeating section for payments. In our industry an invoice might (or might not) contain ongoing charges and payments. For example a company might charge 50$ per animal caught, and might receive multiple payments on a single invoice, it might be a deposit on a job or an agreed on percentage per milestone, etc.

                        What I was trying to accomplish here is an invoice (minus payments of course) that would contain basically an identical customer, and line items - but need to be on separate invoices - so once the first invoice is created you may want to pull up the exact same invoice and "save as new" kind of like a recurring charge.

                        It seems I have peaked a few folks interest so I can't be the only one! I was curious what the use case was for Mike Browns xbasic routine.
                        Sarahs idea is pretty cool and I might try that the next time i run into this again. I am not necessarily hell bent on finding a solution as it isn't all that important but it does seem like a pretty cool button that could be added easily by Alpha if there were a need and of course they felt it was worth spending time on.
                        My guess is Selwyn could whip this up in his sleep tonight, lol
                        NWCOPRO: Nuisance Wildlife Control Software My Application: http://www.nwcopro.com "Without forgetting, we would have no memory at all...now what was I saying?"

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                          #13
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                          i see
                          thats how its work..!

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                            Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                            Originally posted by CharlesParker View Post
                            I do have a customers table, an invoice table, a line items(think products), and finally a payments table.
                            The invoice UX is simply the Invoice table, line items and another repeating section for payments. In our industry an invoice might (or might not) contain ongoing charges and payments. For example a company might charge 50$ per animal caught, and might receive multiple payments on a single invoice, it might be a deposit on a job or an agreed on percentage per milestone, etc.

                            What I was trying to accomplish here is an invoice (minus payments of course) that would contain basically an identical customer, and line items - but need to be on separate invoices - so once the first invoice is created you may want to pull up the exact same invoice and "save as new" kind of like a recurring charge.

                            It seems I have peaked a few folks interest so I can't be the only one! I was curious what the use case was for Mike Browns xbasic routine.
                            Sarahs idea is pretty cool and I might try that the next time i run into this again. I am not necessarily hell bent on finding a solution as it isn't all that important but it does seem like a pretty cool button that could be added easily by Alpha if there were a need and of course they felt it was worth spending time on.
                            My guess is Selwyn could whip this up in his sleep tonight, lol
                            see I told you, you will have your reasoning to do what you want to do. I do not want to dwell on this distraction too long away from your original question of duplicating the ux. generally speaking there is charge and people will charge the same thing over and over again saying the 'usual'. same with the payments they pay the same amount every time, the 'usual'. that is what I thought you wanted to do. it is my mistake to assume.

                            duplicating any dialog is not easy to do, hopefully sarah's suggestion will work good. a while back jinx, I am sure, posted lengthy code to duplicate an invoice. if I find it I will post the link.
                            thanks for clarifying.

                            edit: this is one of the threads:
                            http://www.alphasoftware.com/alphafo...plicate+record
                            and I will see where the code was.
                            Last edited by GGandhi; 04-03-2015, 06:33 AM.
                            thanks for reading

                            gandhi

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                              Re: Submit New - or Rather Saveas New

                              I do have a question, however.
                              when you have some charges to a customer you add them via the ux and it get submitted to the backend. same with payments. so when you create a new invoice you copy the old invoice and add few more ongoing charges, few more payments then submit. what happens to the items that were copied from the old invoice do they get submitted too making duplicate charge and payments or you have some mechanism to throw those away and save only the new one?
                              thanks for reading

                              gandhi

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