Setting form element properties

Hello,

I am facing the following problem ,while setting a form element's (drop down) visibility property.

I have a replicant , which includes a text box and a drop down element. I test the content of the text box with that of the drop down element's data. It the data matched i.e. if the data in the text box exists in the drop down element's data , then I am trying to set the drop down element to be visible and its selected index to the matching data element (in the combo). and hide the text box.

The problem is, though the data matches and the elements property set as desired , the drop down element in the dcr is not visible (the text box element is hidden as desired). I need the drop down element to be visible.

This functionality is being acheived using the formAPI script and in the init() function.

Kindly advice

Thanks in advance.

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Adam Stoller

It might help if you include the TS version information (including SP/patch level), platform information, and the DCT and FormAPI code for us to look at and see if we can figure out what's happening.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Antharix

Hi ,

I am working on TS 552 on solaris.

This is the DCT items definition:

<item name="BINNumbers" >
<label>BIN Numbers</label>
<replicant required="t" min="1" max="200">

<item name="AssociateBIN">
<label>Select BIN</label>
<description>Please Associate Existing BIN to this Card</description>
<select required="f">
<inline command="get_list_for_combo.ipl"/>
</select>
</item>

<item name="BINNumber" visible="false">
<label>BIN Number</label>
<description>Please Enter BIN Number</description>
<text required="f" maxlength="8" size="25" validation-regex="^[0-9]+$"/>
</item>

</replicant>
</item>

this is the formAPI script:

var associatedbin = IWDatacapture.getItem("/BINNumbers"+"["+ i +"]"+"/AssociateBIN");
var associatedbinopt =associatedbin.getOptions();

var binnoval = binno.getValue();

if(binnoval)
{

var itemcount=0;
for (var op =1; op <associatedbinopt.length; op++)
{

if(binnoval == associatedbinopt[op].value)
{
associatedbin.setVisible(true);
associatedbin.setValue(op);
binno.setVisible(false);
binid.setVisible(false);
bintype.setValue(0);
IWDatacapture.redraw();
}

The above script is executed in the init() function.

Some functionality description:

I create a dcr with data entered into the "BINNumber" element. save and submit. This data is stored into the "x" data source.

The data in the "AssociateBIN" is fetched from "x" data source.

On opening the saved/submitted dcr, the value previously entered is available in the "AssociateBIN" and therefore I intend to Hide the "BINNumber" element and display ""AssociateBIN" element . I am trying to acheive this thru the above funtion during the init() process.

Please advice solution.

thanks

Adam Stoller

This is just a thought, based on some other posts I've read recently - specifically this one which contains the following:

If you have a call like:init();try replacing it with:IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onFormInit", init); --fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

Antharix

Thanks for all the help. I found solution by inserting a "break;" after setting combo.setVislble(true);

Thanks Again.

Ananda