Order in select list

I have a select list that is hidden and filled out via formapi. There are no entries in the DCR, formapi adds options, selects all on save and saves.

So I set the value to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 it gets saved correctly.

Open the XML and this looks fine.

However if you edit the DCR again the content gets all shuffled, now it is 3,5,7,2,9,4,8,6,1

So when I need to remove the 4th entry, it was 4, now it is 2, and I remove the incorrect entry.

Anyone ever try something like this before ? Should this work ? My formapi is not even running when it gets shuffled so I am certain that is not the issue.

I know I can figure out the value I am trying to remove instead of just the index. That is what I am going to have to do. Just curious if anyone has tried this before.

If I get some time I will post some code for a sample.

TS 6.7 on DOS

Andy

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Frederik

wow, you got TS running on DOS Smiley Wink

anyway, this sounds a lot like what I found in the release notes of a fairly recent TS6.5 patch

PatchId 1660: Patch 66443 for TeamSite 6.5.0 SP2 for Solaris
Build Date: 20060503
---------------------------------------------------------

* Bug ID 66475
TeamSite Form Publisher presents values in a select box in a different order than saved in the DCR.
Platform(s): Generic

Could be that the same issue exists in 6.7, it might even be fixed by some patch...

nipper

hmm, reading the release notes, good thought. Smiley Happy

Thanks

Migrateduser

Hi Andy

I done similar with the following. if you will sort on the item value, it can be done easily.

I create a index value in my DCT (datacapture.cfg ) like following.

IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("OnSave" , insertOrder);
Function insertOrder() {
var i=1;
var testItem;
while (testItem = IWDatacapture.getItem("/itemname[" + i + "]/ShortName")) {

IWDatacapture.getItem("/itemname[" + i + "]/Index").setValue("" + i + "");
i+=1;
}
return true;
}

and in the select list code, you can do the following.
foreach $node (@nodes
{
$indexvalue = $node->value("ndex");
$shortname = $node->value("ShortName");
$selectlist .= "$shortname\n";
}

$selectlist .= "\n"
return $selectlist ;

Hope this is what you looking for.

Thanks
Rishi Gupta

I have a select list that is hidden and filled out via formapi. There are no entries in the DCR, formapi adds options, selects all on save and saves.

So I set the value to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 it gets saved correctly.

Open the XML and this looks fine.

However if you edit the DCR again the content gets all shuffled, now it is 3,5,7,2,9,4,8,6,1

So when I need to remove the 4th entry, it was 4, now it is 2, and I remove the incorrect entry.

Anyone ever try something like this before ? Should this work ? My formapi is not even running when it gets shuffled so I am certain that is not the issue.

I know I can figure out the value I am trying to remove instead of just the index. That is what I am going to have to do. Just curious if anyone has tried this before.

If I get some time I will post some code for a sample.

TS 6.7 on DOS

Andy

nipper

wow, you got TS running on DOS

anyway, this sounds a lot like what I found in the release notes of a fairly recent TS6.5 patch

Could be that the same issue exists in 6.7, it might even be fixed by some patch...

FYI, this will not get fixed in a patch for 6.7, but is fixed in 6.7.1. I know another old customer that will not be happy about that one.

Andy