Open a child replicant when parent is opened

Using the datacapture item below I want to automatically open the "page" replicant when a "Individual Pages - Chapter" replicant is added.

Individual Pages - Chapter

 <item name="title">
 <label>Sidebar Title</label>
  <text required="t" size="100"/>
 </item>     

<item name="page">
<label>Pages</label>
 <replicant default="1" max="999" hide-name="f" min="1" combination="and">
   <label>Page</label>
   <item name="url">
   <label>URL</label>
    <browser ceiling-dir="htdocs" extns=".html" size="100" required="t" />
   </item>
 </replicant> 
</item>

I can use onReplicantAdded in FormAPI but not sure how to open the "page" replicant.

Is there parameter that I can add to the definition above to cause it to open? Didn't see anything in the documentation.

Any suggestions?

We're using TeamSIte 16.3.

Thanks.

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WinstonNLM

My initial post doesn't show all to the data capture definition. Attached an image.

Thanks.

nipper

FormAPI is the only way I know:

iwitem.setCollapsed (Boolean)
Makes a replicant, container, or replicant container collapsed or expanded.
Arguments: Boolean: whether the item should be collapsed or expanded. true indicates the item should be collapsed (if possible). false indicates the item should be expanded. The return value indicates whether or not the operation can be done.
Returns: true if the collapse/expand was possible; false if it was not.

iwitem.setCollapsed(false)

nipper

I also noticed your replicant does not have a name or path ID. That is the really old form and I do not remember how that works with FormAPI

WinstonNLM

Got it to work.

for(var i=1;i<=999;i++)
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/pages[" + i + "]", "OnReplicantAdded", openChapterPage);
}

function openChapterPage(ChapterReplicant)
{
firstPage=IWDatacapture.getItem(ChapterReplicant.getName() + "/page[1]");
firstPage.setCollapsed(false);
}

Thank you.

nipper

You should be able to use size of pages instead of 999, make it faster.

That will be an array and .length is what you need.

WinstonNLM

Thanks.

WinstonNLM

How do I get the size of pages?

for(var chapter=1;chapter<=25;chapter++)
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/pages[" + chapter + "]", "OnReplicantAdded", openChapterPage);
for(var section=1;section<=25;section++)
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/pages[" + chapter + "]/section[" + section + "]", "OnReplicantAdded", openSectionPage);
for(var subsection=1;subsection<=25;subsection++)
{
IWEventRegistry.addItemHandler("/pages[" + chapter + "]/section[" + section + "]/subsection[" + subsection + "]", "OnReplicantAdded", openSubSectionPage);
}
}
}

Thanks.

nipper

It has been 5 or more years since i have done an appreciable about of FormAPI.

However you can use item.getchildren() on a parent which will return an array of items. Then use array.length to get the number of children.

array - myitem.getChildren();
num_items= array.length;

WinstonNLM

I'll give it a try.

Thanks.