I'm building an installer where a given page is asking for a directory. Unfortunately I'm not allowed (by the customer) to force an initial value into the entry (it must be blank), so using PathEdit is out--I have to use a raw Edit control. I've added a Browse button that invokes the BrowseDlg, but the question is: how to show the value entered in the browse dialog?
I've seen recommendations of duplicating the original page, since I can't update the original textbox on the initial page. While that seems workable, how can I get to the 2nd copy of the page? The button to open the Browse dialog invokes SpawnDialog. Doing it as a NewDialog looks really cheesy, and doesn't match the use of Browse dialog for the installation location, where it just pops up. But when the SpawnDialog returns, it just stays on the same page. There's no condition I could come up with that would allow me to add a NewDialog to go to the 2nd page, or to any other page for that matter.
Any ideas on how to proceed, so I can show the entered Browse value?
I suggest using a custom action and an edit box similar to this post. You can use a FolderBrowserDialog instead of the OpenFileDialog. It works for me, but upon a second install the field will be populated with the previous value.
http://community.saasgrid.com/developers/b/team/archive/2011/02/17/wix-managed-custom-actions-openfiledialog-example.aspx
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I've got an issue due to a timing issue with react-admin, that i'm looking for a little help on.
The situation is where user A creates a resource, and user B, on a different PC, then goes to list and edit that resource.
For user B, the list page loads the full dataset of 10 resources, then the edit page re-loads the single resource that is being edited.
However, the specific process on the edit page seems to be:
Render page
Render resource cached from the list page
Request the single resource from the API
Populate the edit form with the updated values from the API
Set the form to dirty
That last point is critical, since I have an action button that is only enabled if the form is pristine, so the user has to save any changes before triggering the action.
But in this case, the list view and the edit view seem to return the same data for the resource, so I'm not sure why the form is being set to dirty.
Any thoughts?
Regards,
Andy
This isn't a complete answer, but I hope it helps you save some time. I recently upgraded React Admin version from 3.5.3 to 3.6.0. I noticed that the Save button is now sometimes disabled unexpectedly, and inconsistently. For example, I may navigate to the edit view of a resource by clicking a link and the Save button is enabled, but if I refresh the page, the Save button is disabled. Apparently, the Save button is supposed to be disabled when the form is pristine. So between 3.5.3 and 3.6.0, it seems that some changes were made to either the pristine handling or the Save button's reaction to pristine, and it is not working consistently.
I see there is a new issue opened three days ago regarding overriding the Save button behavior, wrt pristine. https://github.com/marmelab/react-admin/issues/4913 . So, it seems the dust hasn't settled on this behavior. Perhaps a bug will be found.
When deleting records within the platform, this action is not reversible via the front end. Is there a way to allow users to remove a record from their view without actually deleting the record?
You can simulate recycle bin functionality within Archer GRC by adding a record permission field that grants read access to "Everyone". If read access is no longer required then an editor of the record can go in and change "Everyone" to a group called "Recycle Bin."
Please note that if there are other record permission fields in the application, users or groups may still have access if they are selected in those fields. Perhaps You can set up a dropdown status field for the user to select "Recycle Bin" and use this condition for automatic record permissions to revoke permission to the record depending on the requirements or workflow of the application.
Solution shared by Igritte might be somewhat confusing for end users.
End user will see greyed out "Delete" button in the top toolbar, but he has to select "Recycle Bin" in the form. This solution was not accepted by my business owner at some point.
As a work around for "Soft delete", I wrote a custom object overriding "Delete" button functionality.
1. User doesn't have delete access to the record, so JavaScript code will make "Delete" button look like active and available.
2. Once the button is clicked, custom object will populate value in the
hidden value list and simulate the click on the "Save" button.
Update: Note that Custom object needs to hide the value list first once the page is loaded. Here you will need to use a JavaScript and do the following: [a] locate the value list DOM object and [b] set display attribute to none. I used jQuery library to do both. This way your value list is not displayed, but you still can use it to control data driven events.
3. With hidden value populated and submitted, record permission will hide this record from the end user.
Note that custom object hides one value list on the layout as well.
If for some reason JavaScript doesn't load properly, user simply will not be able to click on the grayed out "Delete" button.
Update: Hidden value list can be populated by custom object using JavaScript code as well. You need to identify the form tag "input" in HTML code of the page and set attribute "value" to the desired state. I used jQuery library to do this as well.
I have this solution in production working fine with IE11, FF and Chrome.
I can't share the code, but with WC3Schools JavaScript guides and 4 hours you can write and test it yourself with very little JavaScript skills.
Sometimes you have to use custom objects when you want to get a user-friendly solution of not available functionality.
Good luck!
In one of my custom application user wants to keep EditForm.aspx open once list item is created and he can keep saving the same record without redirecting user to DisplayForm.aspx page.So what I'm doing after list item creation I'm loading EditForm.aspx again.
Now the problem is when form is opened in Edit mode and if existing field is modified that doesn't gets updated in the list item but if something new added to the field then it gets saved to the list. I believe it's postback issue but not sure how to pass latest form data upon save.
If this was my task, I would create a new application page that replaces the edit page on that list.
(You can use powershell / object model to set the url of the new / edit / display pages)
Ignoring the ribbon, the edit page is actually pretty simple. It shouldn't be too difficult to create a custom one, that has the submittal behavior you are interested in. Indeed, since you are keeping the exact same field names and input types, you may be able to simply inherit the default form in yours, and simply override the post call.
I suppose it might be possible instead for you to write some javascript to hijack the submit post of the default edit page, but this seems messy to me, and I probably wouldn't go that route.
If you don't need to complete this task today, I've been meaning to push to github some code I wrote a few months ago. That code is a custom aspx edit/new/display page that is extremely easy to customize / implement. I could forward you the link tonight when I get out of work.
I'm running with an 8.5.3 UP1 server and I have a need to have many dialog boxes (for confirmation purposes) for a whole bunch of "action buttons" on an xpage. The code for these dialog boxes is almost exactly the same with the exception of the confirmation message being different and the client-side JS function they are calling if the Yes button is selected.
Since I really hate repeating code over and over, I was wondering if it is at all possible to put a xe:dialog control within a repeat control and specify the message and function call from an array of values? I know I can't compute the ID of the dialog control and without that I'm not sure how I would reference the dialog to open and close it.
Any ideas? Thanks
Yes, this is possible.
Make sure that you specify that the dialog box's property for keepComponents is set to False. You don;t have to do anything special for opening or closing the dialog box, just use whatever ID you give the dialog box in you client-side action to open the dialog box in the repeat such as XSP.openDialog('#{id:myDialog}')
The XPages renderer will automatically calculate the correct ID names for you.
I have a collection of example documents in PDF forms that are viewed by clients, They all include a "Example" watermark prominently displayed but I have had some issues with clients trying to fill in the example forms and submitting as Official forms, normally followed by a support phone call from the client. I am looking for a way to pop up a message in the pdf if the client trys to type or click in the example document, I know how to pop up a message if they click in a form field but some of my documents do not have any form fields so I am looking for a way to show a message if a client trys to type or click anywhere in the actual document. I am using Acrobat X Pro.
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
Thanks in advance for any advice!!
Plop a big invisible button (not hidden, invisible) over the entire page, with a click action that pops up a message dialog with whatever warning you wish.