I have a dialog workflow that creates an instance of a custom entity that is queue enabled. I then create a queue item and reference this instance but I want to set the Title of the Queue item so that it is descriptive in the default view. However when I go to set the Title field in the 'create' step, it is non-interactive. I can't click on it, edit it or do anything with it. I have made sure the title field is not read-only and I have compared all of the 'titles' field settings to another field (the queue item) and all the properties are the same between the two. Anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Because you can't modify the field. The title of a queueitem will be set through the referenced activity.
If you take a look at the queueitem metadata you will see that the attribute title is marked with
attribute | ... | IsValidForCreate | ... | IsValidForUpdate
title | ... | False | ... | False
This means that although you could technically edit and write this field, the system will not allow it and filter this information out.
So basically you would have to set the title of the referenced activity to a descriptive value.
Related
I'm new to Acumatica custom development and I'm trying to do something that I would assume is very simple. I have a Selector control (DataClass: FSServiceOrder, DataField: BranchLocationID) in the Sales Order header that allows user to set the Branch Location. Below, in an Inventory grid, I merely want to set the Warehouse field in the new row equal to the value of the above-mentioned selector. I can set Warehouse with a hard-coded value, but I have no idea how to reference the selector or get it's value, as it seems to be outside the scope of the passed PXCache object:
protected void FSSODetPart_RowSelected(PXCache cache, PXRowSelectedEventArgs e)
{
string BranchLocationID = "" // Not sure how to get this value
var row = (FSSODetPart)e.Row;
cache.SetValueExt(row, "SiteID", BranchLocationID);
}
I was hoping I could simply reference all UI controls similar to ASP.NET, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Any help is appreciated. Getting a value from the screen seems to be fundamental but I cannot find any help in the documentation. Thanks.
In Acumatica screen controls are bound to DataViews.
DataViews contains DAC records. Common practice is to get the value from the current DAC record in the bound DataView.
Use the current object of the DataView holding FSServiceOrder DAC records:
string BranchLocationID = myDataview.Current.BranchLocationID;
If you don't know the DataView name, on the WebSite hold Ctl+Alt and click on the BranchLocationID UI field. A popup will appear showing the DataView name.
Getting the current object from the DAC collections should work too but it's preferable to use the DataView:
string BranchLocationID = Base.Caches[typeof(FSServiceOrder)].Current.BranchLocationID;
Also make sure you set the CommitChanges attribute to true on BranchLocationID form field in the Aspx file. This ensures that current object will fire events in the back-end when it's value is changed.
<px:PXSelector ID="edBranchLocationID" runat="server"
DataField="BranchLocationID" CommitChanges="True" />
In orchard, I've added a boolean field called "IsDone" to the built in Content Menu Item content part via that Admin interface. I've then picked an item in Navigation and set the option to "yes" for the corresponding field i added.
In my custom theme, I've copied over MenuItem.cshtml.
How would I get the value of my custom "IsDone" field here?
I've tried something like
dynamic item = Model.ContentItem;
var myValue = item.MenuItem.IsDone.Value;
but I'm pretty sure my syntax is incorrect (because i get null binding errors at runtime).
thanks in advance!
First i suggest you use the shape alternate MenuItemLink-ContentMenuItem.cshtml instead of MenuItem.cshtml to target the content menu item directly.
Secondly, the field is attached to the ContentPart of the menu item. The following code retrieves the boolean field from this content part:
#using Orchard.ContentManagement;
#using System.Linq;
#{
Orchard.ContentManagement.ContentItem lContentItem = Model.Content.ContentItem;
var lBooleanField = lContentItem
.Parts
.Where(p => p.PartDefinition.Name == "ContentMenuItem") // *1
.SelectMany(p => p.Fields.Where(f => f.Name == "IsDone"))
.FirstOrDefault() as Orchard.Fields.Fields.BooleanField;
if (lBooleanField != null)
{
bool? v = lBooleanField.Value;
if (v.HasValue)
{
if (v.Value)
{
#("done")
}
else
{
#("not done")
}
}
else
{
#("not done")
}
}
}
*1
Sadly you cannot simply write lContentItem.As<Orchard.ContentManagement.ContentPart>() here as the first part in the part list is derived from this type, thus you would receive the wrong part.
While #ViRuSTriNiTy's answer is probably correct, it doesn't take advantage of the power of the dynamic objects that Orchard provides.
This is working for me but is a much shorter version:
#Model.Text
#{
bool? IsDone = Model.Content.ContentMenuItem.IsDone.Value;
var IsItDoneThough = (IsDone.HasValue ? IsDone.Value : false);
}
<p>Is it done? #IsItDoneThough</p>
You can see that in the first line I pull in the IsDone field using the dynamic nature of the Model.
For some reason (I'm sure there is a good one somewhere) the BooleanField uses a bool? as its backing value. This means that if you create the new menu item and just leave the checkbox blank it will be null when you query it. After you have saved it as checked it will be true and then if you go back and uncheck it then it will have the value false.
The second line that I've provided IsItDoneThough checks if it has a value yet. If it does then it uses that, otherwise it assumes it to be false.
Shape Alternate
#ViRuSTriNiTy's other advice, to change it to use the MenuItemLink-ContentMenuItem.cshtml instead of MenuItem.cshtml is also important.
The field doesn't exist on other menu items so it will crash if you try to access it. Just rename the .cshtml file to fix this.
Dynamic Model
Just to wrap this up with a little bit of insight as to how I got there (I'm still learning this as well) the way I figured it out is as follows:
.Content is a way of casting the current content item to dynamic, so you can use the dynamic advantages with the rest of line;
When you add the field in the admin panel it looks like it should be right there on the ContentItem, however it actually creates an invisible ContentPart to contain them and calls it whatever the ContentItem's type is.
So if you had added this field to a Page content type you would have used Model.Content.Page.IsDone.Value. If you had made a new content type called banana it would be Model.Content.Banana.IsDone.Value, etc.
Once you are inside the "invisible" part which holds the fields you can finally get at IsDone. This won't give you the actual value yet though. Each Field has its own properties which you can look up in the source code. the IsDone is actually a BooleanField and it exposes its data via the Value property.
Try doing a solution-wide search for : ContentField to see the classes for each of the fields you have available.
Hopefully this will have explained things clearly but I have actually written about using fields in a blog post and as part of my getting started with modules course over on the official docs (its way down in part 3 if you're curious).
Using built-in features instead of IsDone
This seems like a strange approach to do it this way. If you have a Content Item like a Page then you can just use the "Show on a menu" setting on the page.
Go to admin > content > open the page > down near the bottom you will find "Show on a menu":
This will automatically put it into your navigation and then you can move it around to where you want:
After it "IsDone" you can just go back and untick the "Show on a menu" option.
Setting up the alternative .cshtml
To clarify your comments about how to use the alternative, you need to
Copy the file you have at Orchard.Core/Shapes/Views/MenuItem.cshtml over to your theme's view folder so its /Views/MenuItem.cshtml
Rename the copy in your theme to MenuItem-ContentMenuItem.cshtml
Delete probably everything in it and paste in my sample at the start of this post. You don't want most of the original MenuItem.cshtml code in there as it is doing some special tricks to change itself into a different shape which isn't what you want.
Reset your original Orchard.Core/Shapes/Views/MenuItem.cshtml back to the factory default, grab it from the official Orchard repository
Understanding the view names
From your comments you asked about creating more specific views (known as alternates). You can use something call the Shape Tracer to view these. The name of them follows a certain pattern which makes them more and more specific.
You can learn about the alternates on the official docs site:
Accessing and Rendering Shapes
Alternates
To figure out what shape is being used and what alternates are available you can use the shape tracing module which is documented here:
Getting Started with Shape Tracing
The title of the toolbar and also the menu item ID_VIEW_TOOLBAR remains empty. I have tried to set it within CMainFrame::OnCreate:
CString strToolbar;
strToolbar.LoadStringA(IDS_TOOLBAR_STANDARD); // IDS_TOOLBAR_STANDARD = "Standard"
m_wndToolBar.SetWindowText(strToolbar);
DockPane(&m_wndToolBar);
m_wndToolBar.EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
EnableDocking(CBRS_ALIGN_ANY);
EnablePaneMenu(TRUE, ID_ANSICHT_ANPASSEN, "Anpassen", ID_VIEW_TOOLBAR);
The menu Looks like following:
Do you know how to set it properly?
Generally speaking people do not change the display text of standard commands at runtime. At compile time you can set the ID's menu text in in the string table section of the resource editor.
If you want to change the menu text at runtime, you can add an ON_UPDATE_COMMAND_UI handler for ID_VIEW_TOOLBAR and call CCmdUI::SetText inside the handler. When the user click a top level menu to display a drop-down menu, a WM_INITMENUPOPUP is sent to the owner of the menu, in this case your CFrameWnd-derived class. CFrameWnd::OnInitMenuPopup then iterates through each menu item and calls the update command UI handlers if exists.
Reference
MFC TN021: Command and Message Routing
To solve this problem, I had create the Toolbar by explicitly specifying the ID of the Toolbar (instead of using the default argument of the function).
m_wndToolBar.CreateEx(this, TBSTYLE_FLAT, WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | CBRS_TOP |
CBRS_GRIPPER | CBRS_TOOLTIPS | CBRS_FLYBY | CBRS_SIZE_DYNAMIC,
CRect(1,1,1,1),
IDR_MAINFRAME) // <-- Custom ID
After this I could set the title of the toolbar to what I want:
m_wndToolBar.SetWindowText(_T("My Toolbar Name");
I got it working after reading this thread.
I have a Check box group, whose values are computed by using the selected values of another Check box group. So when I do
var check6:com.ibm.xsp.component.xp.XspSelectManyCheckbox = getComponent("check6");
ArrSelected = check6.getSelectedValues();
to get the selected values, the following exception occurs:
Error calling method 'getSelectedValues()' on java class 'com.ibm.xsp.component.xp.XspSelectManyCheckbox'
java.util.ArrayList incompatible with [Ljava.lang.Object;
Check6 gets its values from a session scope variable that is computed on beforePageLoad event and I have also set the default value.
Note that this does not happen onload of the page, but when the first partial refresh happens. Does anyone know what this exception indicates?
Thanks a lot!
Bind the value of the selectItems for the second check box group to precisely the same expression the first checkbox group's value attribute is bound to.
This article provides a lengthy description of the reason why, but here's a very quick summary: if you ask a component what its value is, it has to ask the data it's bound to. So skip the component, and ask the data yourself.
So, if your first group looks like this:
<xp:checkBoxGroup value="#{currentDocument.FirstField}">...
Then your second group should look like this:
<xp:checkBoxGroup value="#{currentDocument.SecondField}">
<xp:selectItems value="#{currentDocument.FirstField}">
</xp:checkBoxGroup>
When the user's selection in the first group is posted to the data source, the second group will reflect the changes because they're linked to the same property on that data source. Slight caveat: if your page includes any required fields, you may need to skip validation on the onchange event that triggers the second group to recalculate.
the reason is simple, this class has no method getSelectedValues() (as far as I can see it, look here for more info: http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/lotus/Domino-Designer/JavaDocs/XPagesExtAPI/8.5.2/index.html?overview-summary.html)
Maybe you could bind the control to a scoped variable and then access this variable to compute your other values?
I have created a custom field type as it is there in sharepoint OOTB, the difference is only that the end user does not need to check the name i.e I have replaced it with DropDownList. The dropdownlist suggest the no. of users available in the web site for that I have created a FieldClass which inherits from SPFieldUser and a FieldControlClass which inherits from UserField. It is working fine in all conditions i.e when I create a List or Document Libarary it shows me the DropDownList
with respective users after saying OK it creates an item for me. I have overriden a Value property in FieldControlClass as follows,
public override object Value
{
get
{
SPUserCollection userscollection = rootWeb.SiteUsers;
//ddlInfoBox is a DropDownList to which I have Binded the collection of users in the form of string
SPUser user = userscollection.Web.EnsureUser(this.ddlInfoBox.SelectedValue);
SPFieldUserValue userval = new SPFieldUserValue(user.ParentWeb, user.ID, user.LoginName);
return userval;
}
set
{
SPFieldUserValue userval = (SPFieldUserValue) this.ItemFieldValue;
this.ddlInfoBox.SelectedValue = userval.Lookupvalue; //Here look up value is nothing but a Login name e.g In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap
}
}
Due to above property the Custom Field's Value for this current ListItem will be stored as SPFieldUserValue e.g 27#;In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap.
The main problem is here, when this particular ListItem is shown in the list page views e.g on AllItems.aspx or the custom view pages associated with it, it shows the
number as 27 as a FieldValue insted of HyperLink with text as "In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap" and PostBackURL as "/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=27".
When I edit this Item it makes the respective value selected in the dropdownlist, also while viewing this item i.e on DispForm.aspx it also shows the hyperlink. I have
acheived it by writting a custom logic in createchildcontrol() method i.e by using ControlMode if it is New or Edit then fill the dropdown list, if it is Display then get the ItemFieldValue Type Cast it into SPFieldUserValue and get corresponding lookupid and value for making the URL and showing Text of the HyperLink.
I have spent a lot of time on searching and bringing the HyperLink as the user name with navigation insted of UserID (27) as a string on the list view pages e.g AllItem.aspx but to no avail, then after a lot of research I found that there might be a way of achieving such kind of functionality by using field type definition xml file where there is a provision to define a DisplayPatteren as you wish by specifying the html code. But here is a problem How can I get the UserID (27) with respective UserName e.g In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap inorder to make an anchor tag like In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap which will solve my problem. I have hard coded this anchor tag within the Default case statement of a switch under DisplayPatteren but it shows me the field value on AllItems.aspx as
In-Wai-Svr2\tjagtap27 i.e the value defined in xml file is concatenating with the string value (27).
Please help me to resolve the above mentioned 2 issue. I am really in need of solving this problem ASAP.
Thanks & Regards,
Tejas Jagtap
Have u tried to override the GetFieldValueAsHtml() method in the the custom field class or maybe the RenderFieldForDisplay() method in the custom field control class.
Can you use the DisplayPattern CAML from the User field type?