Dialog For Editing Grid Items: Using same dialog for updates and inserts

[dionmccormick]

I am having an issue with using the Dialog component to both edit and insert values into a grid.

I have a grid called gridContacts.
I have a dialog called dialogContact.

In the dialog called dialogContact, I have added the ExecuteServerSideAction with Action Scripting to save the data. I have selected the option "Edit Record Just Submitted". (Image 1)

I have placed a button on the grid row to "edit" the contact using the contact dialog. I use the Action Javascript command "Open Dialog for Current..." with the mode "EditExistingRecord". Everything works fine with the dialog in this edit mode. The dialog shows the current record and when you click submit, it saves the changes and updates the grid. (Image 2)

Now, on the same grid, I have placed an Action Button that uses the Action Javascript "Open Dialog For Current...". (Image 3)

When I click the submit button after I have added the new information, the dialog window stays open. It has inserted the record properly into the database.

I have noticed that the following javascript error is occuring during the save process for a "New Record"

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GTB7.2; EasyBits GO v1.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3; Tablet PC 2.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Timestamp: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:47:55 UTC


Message: Expected ')'
Line: 186
Char: 49
Code: 0
URI: http://localhost:8080/LivePreview/ja...a5-23253851.js

[dionmccormick]

Re: Javascript Error: Add New Item To Grid with Dialog

I updated to the latest build Jan 16 and still getting the error. I also changed the behavior on the server side script to "Enter another record" to see if that made a difference and I am getting the same javascript error.

[Selwyn Rabins]

Re: Javascript Error: Add New Item To Grid with Dialog

this question can't be answered by looking at screenshots.

can you send an example that allows us to duplicate the issue on our own computers?

the error indicates that the javascript that was send back from the server has an error in it. the most like cause for this would be some part of the response was not js_escaped, so there is a single quote in the javascript rather than an escaped single quote character.

if you can't send the component, then second best would be to go to firebug in firefox and look at the response that was send to the browser when you click the save button. then send us that response. hopefully, it will show where the js error is.

since we know that the server side action to save data is working in general, it points to something specific about your data, and as mentioned above, the most likely reason is that some part of the response that should have been escaped, has not been. you would only run into the issue if some piece of data in the response needed to be escaped, which does not really happen very often for users in the US who are not working with international characters.

[dionmccormick]

Re: Dialog For Editing Grid Items: Using same dialog for updates and inserts

Thanks Selwyn. I will first install the firebug and do some more research. I will check all of the data elements. Will keep you posted.