setReadOnly for replicants

infoForDj

Hi,

I have radio buttons say 1 and 2. I also have a container which acts as a replicant having min = 1 and max = 20. The container has 6 items in it. If radio button 1 is selected then this replicant needs to be disabled. Now, I am checking how many children of this replicant are active, running a for loop and setting their read only property to true.

But the issue is that if I do this then the program becomes so slow that it makes my computer unresponsive. I have to abort the script if the DCT has to show up.

My code is :

var subSection = IWDatacapture.getItem("/promotionRawDetail/subSectionCopy").getChildren();
var length = subSection.length * 6;

for(j=0; j<length; j+6)
{
for(i=0; i<subSection.length; i++)
{
disableChange = eval(subSection).getName()+"/subSectionTitle";
disableChange[j+1] = eval(subSection).getName()+"/details";
disableChange[j+2] = eval(subSection).getName()+"/subSectionImage[1]/imageFile";
disableChange[j+3] = eval(subSection).getName()+"/subSectionImage[1]/imageLink";
disableChange[j+4] = eval(subSection).getName()+"/subSectionImage[1]/altTag";
disableChange[j+5] = eval(subSection).getName()+"/subSectionImage[1]/imageLocation";
}
}

onCheckEnableDisable();

Where onCheckEnableDisable will run through disableChange array and set each element's readOnly property to true.

Please help me to arrive at a better solution to set read only to true for replicants.

Thanks,
Dhruv

Adam Stoller

Well - first of all you ran into the funky formatting problem on DevNet posts where gets treated as the beginning of an italicized section and also fails to show up in the post - I suggest you put spaces around the 'i' so that it looks like [ i ] or change the formatting of the post to using HTML or without Markup/HTML to avoid this problem.

Second - you failed to provide information about what version of TeamSite Templating / FormsPublisher you are using. It makes a difference because later versions of the product include additional functionality - especially in the case of TS6.5 which provides better interfaces for dealing with replicants (check out the recent webcast). Although now that I'm looking at your post again, it sounds like you're using 6.x because you say you have a container with min/max values - so then the question is are you using 6.0, 6.1, 6.1SP1, or 6.5?

In 5.x I believe one was able to disable entire containers (but not replicants) - I'm not sure how it works in 6.x, but have you tried just disabling the container itself rather than recursing through it to disable each element within the replicated container? Assuming you want to disable the entire container and not just certain fields within each instance of it - this might be far more efficient.

--fish
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