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    Using an unbound UX to duplicate records

    Hi, I just started into Alpha five a couple of weeks ago and I am currently working on functionality that allows a user to duplicate an existing record and it's child records. I'm calling a UX from a grid component, where I placed a button called Duplicate in the row which passes data via arguments to the UX dialog that I am calling as a modal-popup. The UX has fields for the parent record and a list object for the child records. I've been able to get all the data passed to the dialog, and I've also got an xbasic function that saves the data to the tables. My issue starts when I click the Submit button on the dialog. When I run a live preview from the UX dialog, it works fine and saves all the data. So I then move to the grid component that will call the dialog. I click the Duplicate button, the UX appears, all the data is filled in and ready to be edited by the user. I make some changes, and click submit. No information gets saved to the database and the dialog remains open. I can't seem to figure why I can't even get the data to save to the database, let alone get the dialog to close. I call the xbasic function from the submit button's onClick event and pass the information to it. For whatever reason I can't get it to work when called from the grid component in live preview.

    Appreciate any insight or help on this. I've been all over the forums and videos and can't seem to find an exact solution to this.

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    Re: Using an unbound UX to duplicate records

    So I narrowed my issue down a little bit. It seems that my ajax callback is failing, but only when I call the UX from the Grid component. Running a live preview from within the UX component the callback works fine, and saves data to my tables. When I do a live preview from the Grid component and click the button that opens the UX dialog and change some information and click the Finish button (my ajax callback is contained in the onClick event) it does nothing, and I get a message (that I put in the ajax failed event handler) that my callback has failed.

    Here is the code I have in my Finish button onClick event

    var lObj = {dialog.object}.getcontrol('DETAIL_LIST');
    var listData = JSON.stringify(lObj._data);
    {dialog.object}.ajaxCallback('','','SaveDuplicate','','__listData='+listData,{deviceOfflineFunction: function() { }});

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      #3
      Re: Using an unbound UX to duplicate records

      Maybe a simpler question would be...

      Can you use an ajax callback on a ux dialog? The action script help states that it has to be part of a grid, my UX is only called from a grid and gets passed information from the row the button was clicked from.

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        Re: Using an unbound UX to duplicate records

        Another edit:

        I found that if I remove/comment out the two lines

        var lObj = {dialog.object}.getcontrol('DETAIL_LIST');
        var listData = JSON.stringify(lObj._data);

        my callback does get called, putting them back in causes the callback to fail. If anybody has any idea why declaring these two variables would cause that or if there is a better way to pass the information to my xbasic function, it would be greatly appreciated!

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          Re: Using an unbound UX to duplicate records

          So I found an excellent video on how to debug javascript in the alpha anywhere application and was able to determine that I'm apparently attempting to stringify too much data which was causing the application to hang, thus never getting to the callback. If I only have 2 or 3 rows of information in my list, it works fine. More than that seems to be iffy, and will most likely fail.

          I still need to get all the information from that list into a sql table, so I'm now trying to find some other way to access that list object from the UX dialog on the xbasic side.

          Hope this helps somebody else in the future with a similar problem.

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