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    Close Dynamic Panel

    I have a mobile app that I am trying to develop, there is an onTap event on a list control that opens a UX component to edit the record. What I would like to know is, how can I close this dynamic panel either after submit or with the push of a button labeled 'close'. In searching through these forums I found {dialog.object}.destroyChildComponent('JT_MOBILE_GC_EDITOR'); but this is not doing anything?

    Also I know that this can be done if I set the panelNavigator to TabBands and select the 'user can close ux' property but that is not what I am looking to do, I am using TabButtons. Any Ideas? Thank you for your time.
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    Re: Close Dynamic Panel

    Before I have a look at this, is there a reason you prefer not to use the List control Detail View for editing a List record? Just curious.

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      #3
      Re: Close Dynamic Panel

      Thanks for the reply David,

      I was unaware this was possible, now that you have mentioned it I do see the 'has detail view' option. Im not sure how to set this up so it will take some searching/learning. Is there anything that I should know before exploring this option?

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        #4
        Re: Close Dynamic Panel

        You won't need another UX or involve a dynamic panel. You don't need to use data binding, as such, because your detail view controls are bound to your List. Turn on Detail View for the List in the List Properties and you'll see a new tab. Once in there, you map List fields to controls. Alpha will even create the detail view control for you. You can put the Detail View controls into a Panelcard. You'll set up the List so that tapping on a row in the List will set the active panelcard to the panelcard where your Detail View controls are located. There are a ton of other options in the Detail View section... stuff for synchronizing etc. And there are Defined controls you can add for Saving etc. the Detail View controls. It's a much better process than an embedded UX.

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          #5
          Re: Close Dynamic Panel

          Great! I used the genie to set it up and it is looking awesome, much smoother than what I originally had set up.

          Two questions though, When entering a new record, how do I reference an argument? Ive already set up the argument and set the text box property to default to the argument (=:arg1), but when I select New Record, the text box remains at zero. BTW, the argument is set when a record in the parent list is selected, the "New Record" button is not enabled unless the Parent List returns a value>0.

          2nd question, The genie created a 'Save' and a 'Synchronize' control, can I combine the two JS to just the 'Save' button using Action Javascript 'inline javascript' for each, and make sure to check off the 'run actions synchronously'?

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            #6
            Re: Close Dynamic Panel

            I feel like my last post is a bit confusing, let me try again.

            My mobile app has three lists, 1 parent 2 children. I want to enter a new record into a child list, so when I press the New Record button, the control should default to the ID of the Parent list, but this is not happening and I dont know why?

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              #7
              Re: Close Dynamic Panel

              In the Child List control, you can set it as having a Parent and set the Linking fields between the parent and child. Then, in this sense, you don't even need to fill in the parent id of the Child Detail View control.

              The component knows the relationship and fills it in for you when the record is saved. But... it doesn't show... so you could use the "New Record" button event to "get" and "set" the parent id value. Many times you don't even want the child id and it's parent id to show... so it doesn't really matter.

              In the Detail View property of the Child List, the synchronization policy can be set to auto sync when a record is saved to the List. Lots of options in there.

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                #8
                Re: Close Dynamic Panel

                Thank You David! This is working WAY better than when I first started, Very Smooth and responsive.

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