How to Retrieve the value of item in replicants

LIWoven

Hi All,

I am new to Teamsite and i have created one Form which has nested containers like

container name="discipline" combination="and" min="1" max="499"
item name="disc_code" pathid="disc_code"

container name="coursecode" combination="and" min="1" max="499"
item name="course" pathid="coursecode"

container name="subheader" combination="and" min="0" max="499"
item name="subheader_name" pathid="subheader_name"
container name="title" combination="and" min="1" max="499"
item name="ISBN" pathid="ISBN"
item name="copyrightyear" pathid="copyrightyear"

There are two problems
1) I am not able to retrieve the value of ISBN item onSave event using
IWDatacapture.getItem("disciplines/discipline/coursecode/subheader/title/isbn").getValue();

I am able to retrieve its value using onItemChange event but not using IWDatacapture.getItem in save event.

2) As discipline container can get replicated i want to validate onSave that two discipline Item do not have same disc_code,that means every discipline disc_code should be unique.

I am using xml format output generation.
I am not able to find a way to solve them Please guide me if anyone knows how to do that.

Thanks
Monika

Adam Stoller

Please spend some quality time reading the FormsPublisher and FormAPI Developer's Guides - especially the latter in this case.

When dealing with a replicated item - you need to provide the address (xpath, path, name, whatever you want to call it) to a particular index of the list of items within the replicated instance. This works for event handler functions because the event handler takes care of sending the address of the specific instance of the item which caused the trigger to be activated. You could do it with getItem() if you wanted to - but usually (in the case of replicants) it would be done within a loop formed by getChildren -- which you might want to search for in the forums, as there's been a fair amount of posts (some with code) on that topic.