Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

[simeatan]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

Thanks David - works like a charm! I was hoping to avoid using the Event (onItemDraw in this case) and do the changes in the template. Which, of course, was not possible since the item draw changes is on the individual level, not global for the whole list. On the flip side, when I think of the way it's done, a great things that Alpha provides the granularity to control and use those different events, in js/xbasic direct code or functions.
PS if I was up-to-date with the Alpha versions, the Kanban layout would provide more functionality for what I needed. I was watching a webinar about that, really cool stuff about moving records from one to another group.

[simeatan]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

Gregg,
in my case the client side conditional style won't work, since I can't hardcode the conditions. From the pictures: I don't know what file extensions would come up in a dynamic setting.
That's where I could define a workaround condition by a certain field of the table, but the one that I needed ( {<LogicalRowNumber>} ) did not work.
Thanks for the note!
Sime

[madtowng]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

Hi Sime,

Sorry my solution doesn't help for your particular situation, but it was meant to be a solution for
the original issue of this thread, which was not being able to set a client-side conditional style for
a cell on a list control. My pictures show where to set that condition, as well as the results.

Gregg

[simeatan]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

I got it Gregg. That was new to me, as I don't use A5 frequently.
Thanks to you, David and the other good people helping at this board. And Alpha for quickly fixing and upgrading different parts of the software.

[Davidk]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

Hi David,

I usually miss the part about list control but I think I'm about to nail it this time.
The first image show where to do it, the 2nd image shows the results.

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That's good if you have 3 or a few more conditions. In this case it's possible that there are 26... so I'd take a different approach. Once I see a duplication of code more than 2 or 3 times it's a clear indication that there is something else that can be done.

[madtowng]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

Hi David,

As I said earlier, my solution was strictly meant to solve the issue that started this thread.
Knowing how simple copy and paste is, I would not be afraid to use this method.

[Davidk]

Re: Client Side Conditional Style on a list control field missing

Thanks David - works like a charm! I was hoping to avoid using the Event (onItemDraw in this case) and do the changes in the template. Which, of course, was not possible since the item draw changes is on the individual level, not global for the whole list. On the flip side, when I think of the way it's done, a great things that Alpha provides the granularity to control and use those different events, in js/xbasic direct code or functions.
PS if I was up-to-date with the Alpha versions, the Kanban layout would provide more functionality for what I needed. I was watching a webinar about that, really cool stuff about moving records from one to another group.

Agreed. That's one of Alpha's strengths... that you can get things done a few different ways... that you can use 26 conditional statements... or a bit of Javascript... to get needed results.

[cozzitech]

I'd like to jump into this thread a year later with a question. I think my situation is very similar, but I'm stuck with having it compare dates. I'm trying to have a field (row even better) show yellow if we are within 2 months of today and red if expired. I tried the field conditional with data.enddate < Date() and that didn't work. Then I tried the List Control onItemDraw.

var today = new Date();
if(data.enddate < today) {
e = {listElement:endDate};
e.style.backgroundcolor = 'red';

It will work for me if I compare anything else. Ex. 1=1 or data.enddate == data.enddate, but I cannot get it to compare to today, or even better to do if data.enddate - today < 30. Suggestions? Thanks in advance.