NewForm

This is in regards to Newform:

I have a link called "Create" which opens up a new form. This works.

My question is:

In that form i need to set an item with the value passed while creating, so when the user clicks on the link, the form should open up with that field filled up and set as readonly.

Right now i am passing the value for that field as query string in the create link.

How will my datacapture.cfg recognise this query string?

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jbonifaci

As far as I know, there is no supported way to do this. You might be able to hack something to get it to work, but it won't be supported and could likely break in the future. What are you trying to accomplish? Could you prepopulate the field a different way? Say, from an inline or formapi?

~Jeff

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Nissan

Hi Jeff,

Appreciate your response.

I need to set one of the field in the datacapture form to the value selected in the workflow. So, how do i pass this to the form?

That field in the form is already a prepopulated drop down field which would have all the names but in the workflow, the user would select the name and then create the form.

So, now when the form opens the user again has to go and pick the same name from the form drop down which i want to avoid. I want that field to be filled with the name that the user picked up from the workflow.

So, what struck me was to pass the variable to the datacapture form as query string and using formapi to set that as the field value.

Is there any other option???? any suggestions????

am i clear? please let me know.

JonathonG

One option (which I'm surprised ghoti hasn't suggested yet) is to programmatically pre-create the DCR with that one value set. Then, instead of using the url for a new DCR, use the edit DCR link, opening the one you programmatically created. This may require you asking a couple more questions in the workflow to determine save name, etc.

Jonathon
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Allstate, Inc.

Adam Stoller

I'm surprised I didn't say it too ;-)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
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jbonifaci

Hmmm, I must have gotten distracted before hitting post. I actually remember typing up a reply to suggest exactly that. I, too, was surprised that Adam hadn't chimed in with that response then as well.

~Jeff

Lee

Hi Jeff,

Appreciate your response.

I need to set one of the field in the datacapture form to the value selected in the workflow. So, how do i pass this to the form?

If possible remove the data from the dcr and hold it as metadata. The worfkflow can handle setting/getting metadata etc. The tpl can get hold of the files metadata as well.

HTH

Lee C

Migrateduser

I have done this. You pass a parameter to the form and use FormAPI to get that param and use it to populate the field. I haven't tried it with a read-only attribute, but you may be able to use form-api to set the field to read only.

Example url - (documentType=SalesTrainingClass) is what I have appended to the url
- - - --

http://nt16/iw-cc/command/iw.ccstd.create_form?done_page=/iw-cc/command/iw.base.portal%5fshow%5fportalpage?portal%5fpage%5fid=iw.ccstd.home.portal-page&amp;full_redirect=true&amp;iw_tdt=Service_DCTs/Training&amp;vpath=//nt16/default/main/Partnerpage/WORKAREA/Service&amp;documentType=SalesTrainingClass

Then I use the FormAPI to get that url using javascript and do some work.


//get documentType value URL parameter
var documentTypeParamValue = getParameter("documentType");
var isItem = documentTypeParamValue.match(/SalesTrainingClass/g);

var nullval ="";
if(documentTypeParamValue != nullval){
IWDatacapture.getItem("/documentType").setValue("Sales Training Class");
IWDatacapture.getItem("/documentType").setReadOnly(true);
}

// get's the prameter value of the parameter name passed to the function
function getParameter(paramx) {
        var valx = "";
        var qsx = parent.window.location.search;
        var startx = qsx.indexOf(paramx);        

        if (startx != -1) {
                startx += paramx.length + 1;
                var endx = qsx.indexOf("&", startx);
                if (endx == -1) {
                        endx = qsx.length
                }
                valx = qsx.substring(startx,endx);
        }
        return valx;
}

cchalfant

Taalgaard & DevNet Community,

Have you experienced the "loss" of URL Querystring/GET variables when the user uses such a link with variables tacked on to the query string but is not logged in to Teamsite? Once directed to the login screen the variables are stored as hidden variables in the form (if you view the source) and then posted to iw-cc/newform. Without being able to access POST variables through Javascript, have you found a creative way to access those variables? I haven't tried anything yet myself and was looking to see if there is a best practice in the community.

Here are some ideas that I have been considering:

-try to access the POST variable through an IWPERL call in the DCR itself
-possibly something in the FormAPI can access POST variables, or my specifically something server side exposes the POST variables to FormAPI (haven’t seen anything in the documentation)

Let me know if you have any suggestions or experience with this.

Thank you,
cchalfant