I want to design an infopath form in which there is a repeating table. This table gets data loaded into it on form load using a web service (to receive data). the thing is that user must be able to modify this data and send it back to the server on form submit using another web service (to submit data).
Now I need something like multiple bindings so that the control is bound to to the web service data source to receive data, and also to the form data source in order for the other web service (submit) to send the form data to the server.
I tried to do this with a single value control (not repeating value) and I managed to do that by binding the control to a form data source field and setting the default value of the field to my web service (receive) field. But I can not do that for a repeating table because each time the form loads, I get a table with one row (no matter how many rows the web service returns), filled with the data of the first row returned by the web service, and clicking add row button would result in another row with the same data of the first row.
please help me. thanks.
I found the solution myself. I have to put a repeating table on the form and bind it to a form field. With the web service data source to pull data, I add some code behind to the form load event to set value of the field (which is bound to repeating table) with the data I pulled from web service data source. The code is pretty simple and you can find a lot of threads demonstrating that.
In my case, it was a sharepoint site which I wanted to deploy the form to. There are difficulties to deploy an infopath form with code behind to a sharepoint site. "Nader" has a really useful post with an step by step procedure for doing this:
http://nader.elshehabi.com/2011/08/how-to-really-deploy-infopath-2010-forms-with-code-behind-as-a-feature/
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Here's what I'd like to do but not sure how to. I have a form that's like a typical doctor/school form, where the form has 2 sections: [1] Section 1 at the top is for user (with standard fields like First Name, Last Name etc.), and [2] Section 2 at the bottom is for Admin/Office use only (with fields like Reviewed by, Approved/Not Approved etc.)
what I was able to do is to process Section 1 where I got ALL users' submission and display all their data on a webpage using a RepeaterWithCustomQuery. That's pretty basic. But in order to do what described above, I guess that I'll need to pull the submitted data and populate them back to Section 1 of the form (maybe as readonly data at this time) and then the Office/Admin staff can fill in Section 2.
I hope I made sense and hope that someone can point me to the right direction. I only use Portal Engine, no access to file system or backend.
I think I understand your issue you want to have some sort of an editor for biz form data. Similar to what you have in the admin. And the problem is that you don't have access to backend. :( Such thing is available for custom table data (there is web part), but not for biz form data. There is no ready to use web part. Here is old topic on that https://devnet.kentico.com/questions/how-to-edit-the-information-of-a-record-using-the-bizform-layout.
you want to have something like the admin page for editing form records:
/CMSModules/BizForms/Tools/BizForm_Edit_EditRecord.aspx?formID=7&formRecordID=1
but customized :(. I'd say without back end access the only options I see:
Create a new role "Biz Form Editor" (or use existing) that has rights only to edit biz
form data. So all your people who do "validation" part must have a
Kentico account with role "Biz Form Editor".
Add link above to your repeater with appropriate record id.
P.S. There are special code names for alternative forms (https://docs.kentico.com/k8/configuring-kentico/creating-alternative-forms/code-names-of-automatically-used-alternative-forms). If you create an alternative form with special name update the system will automatically load it when you edit the record.
Not sure that I understood correctly your question. But what you need is to use alternative forms. So the idea is that one form is for "registration" and the 2nd one for "validation".
So in your registration form you show only firstName, lastName etc and you don't show "validation" fields. In the validation form you show firstName, lastname etc as label and show textboxes for validation fields.
I want to be able to get the data and sort it in-memory. I am able to get JSON data using dojox.data.JsonRestStore. Now my question is how do I store it in memory and do in-memry sorting when I click on Dojo Datagrid headers. From what I have searched so far, it is not possible to sort the datagrid in-memory/client-side as it will request the sorted data from my Rest Service. As it is custom rest service, I am not able to sort the data on server side (or is it possible?).
Thanks in advance.
Arun
Outside of XPages, you should be able to set an attribute of the grid to do this -- clientSort: true
However, this doesn't seem to take effect within XPages. I tried the following, with no success:
Adding a clientSort attribute with a value of true to the grid control (via the Dojo tab). The attribute showed up in the right place in the page source, but had no effect. (Programmatically checking the property returned a value of undefined.
Setting [grid].clientSort = true on the onClientLoad event of the page. When checked programmatically, the property would show that it is now set to true, but it had no effect.
I even tried adding it to a grid created programmatically (without the Dojo Data Grid control) and it had no effect.
It appears that either XPages is wiping out the attribute or that it just doesn't work within XPages with a remote data source. (My first two attempts used a REST service. My third attempt used a remote XML data source.)
I still think it's worth attempting to see whether it works with a local data source (like a read-write item store), but I have not had a chance to try that yet.
Trying out a Dojo DataGrid control on an alternate XPage (so as not to impact production) for an existing View, which utilizes Readers fields in the documents. I've got the REST service implemented (xe:viewItemFileService) and connected to the Dojo DataGrid just fine (from 8.5.3 UP1 controls).
I have two scenarios of user visibility (via Roles in the Readers field, assigned by NAB Group definition):
All documents visible (user A). User A can see all documents, everything works perfectly fine for this one.
User B can see some documents. ViewPanel control works fine, but once it's in the Dojo DataGrid, it only has values for the documents User B should see, the remaining X (difference between correctly visible and total document count) rows are populated with "..." (non-values).
Inspecting the REST service's output via the pathInfo yields only the correct documents for User B; which I take as a good sign and makes me think the Dojo DataGrid is what's misbehaving.
Actual Question:
How can I suppress the generation of the unnecessary rows?
I've tried to implement Marky Roden's approach, but got lost on the manipulation of how I can control what the DataGrid is looking at to generate row count (he's talking programmatic store definitions when I'm using the xe:djxDataGrid control). The attribute of rowsPerPage doesn't seem right, and I can't find one for the xe:restService that would make sense to me for what I'm looking for.
Anyone know how to do this? Would love to get this work. Been loving the series by Brad Balassaitis and what XPages can do for us.
Setup:
Domino Server 8.5.3 UP1
NSF signed as Server ID
The grid gets the hint for the number of rows from ?readViewEntriews which tells the actual number, not just the number of documents user B can see. Anyway just romping through reader protected views without designing for access speed has huge performance ramifications. If you can categorize the view by the combined reader/author fields and limit to that category both performance and empty rows will go away.
If you have multiple possible hits (username, role, group membership), you might want to use a rest service that returns data using some SSJS using a viewNavigator
I am using Microsoft coded-ui testing (CUIT) in VS 2010 Ultimate to test an ASP.Net 4.0 site.
I have the source code to the ASP.Net site, so I can modify it as needed.
I've got record/playback working.
I can write simple assert statements in the test methods to check properties of the UITestControl descendents (HTML links, tables, etc.) and compare them to expected values.
I want to add properties to user controls (ASCX's) and pages in my site, to pass back useful values to the testing code.
For example, I have a user control that implements a menu which displays different sets of menu items depending on the role of the current user.
Rather than having the test script click at the various menu items to check whether or not they're present, I want to add a property to the user control. This property will return info to the caller, listing the menus and menu items present.
I've found info on the Net on how to do this in WinForms, but this code relies on accessability, which I believe is only useful for CUIT with WinForms. Likewise, I've found info on how to do it with WPF/SL.
The answer may be related to getting the UITestControl.NativeElement property, then calling a method that overrides GetProperty(), but I haven't been able to get this approach to work.
Can anyone provide a short code sample showing how to add a property to an ASCX or ASPX page, where that property can be written in C# code-behind, and read by Microsoft Coded UI Testing (CUIT) code?
Thanks!
Adam Leffert
http://www.leffert.com
I haven't found an answer to this question, but I have written some code to solve the underlying problem.
I realized that adding properties to user controls would keep the validation data together with the control under test, but only for the case where the section of UI was implemented as a user control.
There are at least two other cases I need to cover:
1) Third-party controls added to the page, for example ASPxGridView, ASPxTreeView, etc.
2) Items that are not visible in the UI, for example the user profile data for the current user.
When you're running CUIT validation code with a Web app, the data you have available is DOM data, i.e. a tree that represents the contents of the Document Object Model of the contents of the browser window. There is no Request object, .Net Page object, etc. This DOM data is accessible through the UIMap object.
I don't want to wrap the third-party controls in user controls, because doing so would disturb the application under test, causing me to re-write the application code that touches properties and events of the grid, tree view, etc. Too intrusive for testing code.
So I created a code interface (ITestable) that contains a dictionary of string values, and a list of ITestable children.
In the LoadComplete event handler of the master page, I create an ITestable for the master page and fill the list with child ITestable objects for the child page, which can themselves contain lists of children.
I serialize this object into JSON, then store it in a hidden field on the master page.
I added the hidden field to the UIMap.
The test validation code deserializes the ITestable, then looks through it for values that need validation.
The controls create their own ITestable objects, so they can easily fill the objects with values that may be needed for validation, rather than forcing the test code to manipulate the UI trying to read validation values.
For example, a tree view could return its contents without the testing code having to click on each node and try to read the value displayed there. Additional properties (visible, enabled, etc.) can be stored in the values dictionary for each ITestable object.
CUIT has some very powerful features. I would very much appreciate it if Microsoft would document some best practices for solving these non-trivial validation problems. I've read through the Microsoft documentation but haven't found much on this topic for Web apps.
We have a list with 1000+ phone numbers in it. This list is sorted in a specific order by due dates and other criteria. This order is very important and needs to be maintained in the solution.
We have a group of callers (roughly 4) that will be calling the numbers in this list in the order they are sorted by. These callers are to be presented with one list item at a time, via an InfoPath form, and once they make the call they will update the list item and be presented with the next list item dictated by the sort order.
Here's the problem: This would be very easy with 1 caller but with 4 callers we don't want them calling the same people more than once. So they need grab the next list item off the top of the pile that isn't already taken by another caller.
Is there a way to build a webpart (remember without Visual Studio unfortunately) that as soon as it loads would find the first list item that is unassigned and assign it to the current user?
We could accomplish this whole thing manually of course by having an admin assign all the calls each day with a large copy/paste in Datasheet View but automatic would be soooo much better.
I will mention that I DO NOT have Visual Studio so I don't have that as an option here. But I do have SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Designer 2010, and InfoPath 2010.
I hope this makes sense and any ideas, thoughts, approaches would be greatly appreciated since I've run out! Thanks!!!!!
You can develop SharePoint web parts using Visual Studio Express, but its a bit harder as you miss some of the tools that make your life easier like WSPBuilder etc.
SO - Building webparts with Visual Studio 2010 Express
Another alternative would be to use javascript client side to access SharePoints Web Services via SPService - then nothing more than notepad is required.
You're really using a wrench as a hammer with either of these approaches though, so I've got to say - how much do you value your time at? ;)
I can offer a very bodgy alternative; presuming all the items are added piecemeal (not in the same second). You could add a calculated column to assign each item at random on addition, using the following formula:
CHOOSE(MOD(SECOND([Created]),4)+1,"Operator1","Operator2","Operator3","Operator4")
I suggest a workflow that is assigned to listItem's edit; that when a caller edits its extra field like "Operating(bool)" after the calling workflow completes; the item is disabled somehow.
Only overhead of this is a caller needs to edit the item every time.
But the easy part is a listviewer webpart (oob) can be used just with a default view setting like "Operating" field is "false" only.
This is simple. On form load, instruct the form to update a status field to (let's say 'assigned') and automatically resubmit the form back. Your infopath list that pulls in the next number to call would need to exclude any that are in the assigned status. You'd also need to re-query your data connection to refresh the list each time before a call is made to grab the next available. Once the caller is finished, they can click a button that submits the form, clears the status field and closes the form.
Yo can also pull in the active items into an infopath form using a secondary data connection. There is a way to use the insert hyperlink into the form field, and make any of your fields a URL hyperlink directly to the individual item. Although you'd have to have the URL epsaved in a field in the form the item was created in. That's easy to do, you can just con at the URL with the form name.