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kaalraa

On editing of the DCR, depending upon certain field values we need to disable the access of other fields. Also have to put some values in fields after fetching it from DB. For this we have to call a script using callserver.

What are the best possible ways of doing the same? Is there any event or pre-defined function like onLoad or onFormLoad?

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Yukka

On editing of the DCR, depending upon certain field values we need to disable the access of other fields. Also have to put some values in fields after fetching it from DB. For this we have to call a script using callserver.

What are the best possible ways of doing the same? Is there any event or pre-defined function like onLoad or onFormLoad?

onFormInit?

ISCBorisB

On editing of the DCR, depending upon certain field values we need to disable the access of other fields. Also have to put some values in fields after fetching it from DB. For this we have to call a script using callserver.

What are the best possible ways of doing the same? Is there any event or pre-defined function like onLoad or onFormLoad?

There is (undocumented) flag, parent.datacapture.isDatacaptureLoaded

Yukka

There is (undocumented) flag, parent.datacapture.isDatacaptureLoaded

What is the advantage of this flag over onFormInit?

FormAPI Developers Guide:
"To ensure that FormAPI operations (perhaps to
make a container invisible) occur after initialization is complete, FormAPI provides a form
event OnFormInit to defer execution of user script code."

kaalraa

There is (undocumented) flag, parent.datacapture.isDatacaptureLoaded

Thanks Boris. Willl make use of it, however as of now i have put a delay in between two callservers. I hope there would be no performance issue on that?

kaalraa

What is the advantage of this flag over onFormInit?
FormAPI Developers Guide:
"To ensure that FormAPI operations (perhaps to
make a container invisible) occur after initialization is complete, FormAPI provides a form
event OnFormInit to defer execution of user script code."

onFormInit would be called after the initialization of form (not loading of form).

ISCBorisB

What is the advantage of this flag over onFormInit?

Flag and Event are two different things.
You can not *catch* Flag or check Event value...

req.docx

ISCBorisB

...however as of now i have put a delay in between two callservers. I hope there would be no performance issue on that?

I always put a delay on my init. Performance impact is minimal. Granted, that may be paranoja from 5.x time, but I do not think so.
The following is the snippet from my personal *FormAPI Best practice* (and to anybody ready to start throwing tomatoes I did say
Personal, didn't I?)

//Set Global Variables
...
IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onFormInit", init);

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Init Section
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function init() {
   // Load Validation may seem a bit paranoid upon Init Event.
   // Still, "Initiated" and "Loaded" are not always synonyms in TS.
   if (parent.datacapture.isDatacaptureLoaded) {
      custom_init();
   }
   else {
      setTimeout("init()", 500);
   }
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
function custom_init() {
   // Place your "real" Init here
}

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// GUI Section
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...

kaalraa

I always put a delay on my init. Performance impact is minimal. Granted, that may be paranoja from 5.x time, but I do not think so.
The following is the snippet from my personal *FormAPI Best practice* (and to anybody ready to start throwing tomatoes I did say Personal, didn't I?)

REALLY APPRECIATED!! Smiley Happy

THANKS A MILLION.

Still i wonder, why IWOV does not adds on an extra event for onFormLoad??

Yukka

REALLY APPRECIATED!! THANKS A MILLION.

Still i wonder, why IWOV does not adds on an extra event for onFormLoad??

there is an undocumented "onFormLoad" event.


IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onFormInit", init);
top._dcWin.IWDCEventRegistry.addListener("onFormLoad", loader);

function loader(){
alert("loading");
}

function init(){
alert("init");
}

But I still do not not get the point. The onFormLoad is fired before the onFormInit and after the isDatacaptureLoaded.

Regards,
Oliver

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ISCBorisB

But I still do not not get the point...

Ok, if you insist...

Slightly oversimplifying, "onFormLoad" Event handler loads single instance of eWebEditPro Object,
finds and sets focus to the first *exposed simple* element and sets "datacapture.formLoaded" flag
to true. Upon completion it fires either onFormInit or onPageDrawn event. That's it. This is not the same
as setting "datacapture.isDatacaptureLoaded".

To the best of my knowledge there is no dedicated event which handler sets "isDatacaptureLoaded" flag.
Note that I'm not saying that such event does not exist, only that I do not know if it does.