How to include own code for ADD,EDIT & DELETE

[Jon Lau]

HI,

Where can I incl my code if after the user click 'ADD', 'EDIT' or 'DELETE' button? Eg. Default the username to the login ID after user add a new record. Or maybe log the system time when the user edit the record.

Actually, alpha should document those embed points that we code our own source. It would be easy to control the web app.

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: How to include own code for ADD,EDIT & DEL

Reportedly the next version of the grid components will have an afterSubmit event that you can program.
The dialog component already has an AfterValidate event, and you can use that event, if you're using a dialog.
In the meantime--assuming you are using a grid--you can program your own afterSubmit event by inserting code in the top of your A5W page that looks something like this:

if eval_valid("myComponentName_Button_Submit") then
   ' your own processing goes here
end if
Delete Tmplt
Dim Tmpl as P
etc.

Each component's Submit button is named as myComponentName_Button_Submit.

Another way of doing what you want is to put hidden input variables on your page. For example, if the user's name is in session.user_name, then you can modify the A5w script that generates the page to include the lines

html=

" name="user"> %str%
? html 
%>

Then when the form is submitted, you will have created a variable, request.variable.user (of course, you already have a variable session.user_name, so this is a little superfluous in this example!).

[Peter.Wayne]

RE: How to include own code for ADD,EDIT & DEL

Sorry, the html ate up my code. Trying again:

Reportedly the next version of the grid components will have an afterSubmit event that you can program.
The dialog component already has an AfterValidate event, and you can use that event, if you're using a dialog.
In the meantime--assuming you are using a grid--you can program your own afterSubmit event by inserting code in the top of your A5W page that looks something like this:

"%A5
if eval_valid("myComponentName_Button_Submit") then
' your own processing goes here
end if
Delete Tmplt
Dim Tmpl as P
etc.


Each component's Submit button is named as myComponentName_Button_Submit.

Another way of doing what you want is to put hidden input variables on your page. For example, if the user's name is in session.user_name, then you can modify the A5w script that generates the page to include the lines

"%a5
html=""%str%
"input type=hidden value="%str% + session.user_name+ ""%str%
" name="user"" %str%
? html
%"


Then when the form is submitted, you will have created a variable, request.variable.user (of course, you already have a variable session.user_name, so this is a little superfluous in this example!).

[Jon Lau]

RE: How to include own code for ADD,EDIT & DEL

Peter,

Thank you so much! I will try it out.