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I tried the step-by-step from Training videos, but this error prompts whenever I press F5.
Specifying Country ...
error spc0052: Attribute CityId must be present on the screen or assigned by a rule. (Transaction 'Country', Details)
error spc0104: Grids are mandatory for all levels but the first one. (Transaction 'Country', Details)
warning spc0043: CityId is not instantiated. (Transaction 'Country', Details)
Processing inferred calls...
Failed: Specification
Failed: Run Developer Menu

It seems that you are having problems with transaction structure and its form (screen layout).
About SPC0052 error
Attribute CityId seems to be part of the transaction key. I assume you have a structure similar to:
CountryId*
CountryName
(CityId*
CityName)
Every key attribute (CountryId and CityId in this example) must be present on the screen or assigned in the transaction rule. Otherwise, how will it have a value? (remember that Key attributes cannot be “null”)
Further information: https://wiki.genexus.com/commwiki/servlet/wiki?6432,Specification+Codes+from+spc0050+to+spc0099
About SPC0104 error
It seems that you defined a grid for the first level (countryId) and this is not allowed.
For the above sample structure, the form should be “plain” for the first level and “grid” for the second level
Further information: https://wiki.genexus.com/commwiki/servlet/wiki?6433,Specification+Codes+from+spc0100+to+spc0149
How to fix them?
It depends on the structure and form that you have defined. Perhaps the easiest way is to apply default form (positioned at transaction form, option edit/Apply Default (Web Layout)

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How to retrieve addresses using the odata endpoint

I'm trying to retrieve an address on a standard entity.
the request is the following :
https://mycrm.api.crm4.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/contacts(guid)
In this example, I get all fields, but the ones that is of interest to me is address1_addressid, which seems to be a Guid, referencing some of record, but I cannot find it in the "Many to One" relationship list I retrieved using the following command :
https://mycrm.api.crm4.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/EntityDefinitions(LogicalName='contact')?$select=LogicalName&$expand=ManyToOneRelationships($select=ReferencingAttribute,ReferencedEntity)
I would like to retrieve those addresses in a generic manner, as I'm working on a generic NetStandard 2.0 library. I won't be able to know on which entity I'll be working, and thus won't be able to hard-code a list of addresses field names.
Here's one way to find the Contact to Address relationship:
https://myOrg.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/EntityDefinitions(LogicalName='customeraddress')?$select=LogicalName&$expand=ManyToOneRelationships($select=ReferencingAttribute,ReferencedEntity)
I got an error with https://myOrg.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/contacts(guid)?$expand=address1_addressid.
I looked into the MetaData and discovered that address1_addressid has a type of Primary Key:
While a normal lookup field has a type of Lookup:
Considering the error message that appears when attempting to expand address1_addressid, I think the issue is address1_addressid's data type.
Property 'address1_addressid' on type 'Microsoft.Dynamics.CRM.contact'
is not a navigation property or complex property. Only navigation
properties can be expanded.
It would seem that rather than using $expand to get the address details, you'd have to make a separate call for it:
https://myOrg.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/customeraddresses(guid)
UPDATE
By reviewing the full Contact-Address relationship, via this query: https://myOrg.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/EntityDefinitions(LogicalName='customeraddress')?$select=LogicalName&$expand=ManyToOneRelationships.
I discovered the ReferencedEntityNavigationPropertyName was set to Contact_CustomerAddress.
The error message before talked about the Navigation property so I gave it a shot. Using that property named allowed me to expand the Address info from the Contact:
https://myOrg.api.crm.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.1/contacts(guid)?$expand=Contact_CustomerAddress
Interestingly, expanding that navigation property returns all 3 customer addresses:

Replacing multiple feedback messages with one message in a Form with a ListView in wicket

I have a webpage which picks up questions from a database and ask users to give an Yes/No questions and sometimes based on the question they have to select a dropdown list or a text to enter.
I need to mark the fields which are missing or invalid data is entered. All the fields are mandatory so I am using setRequired(true); and using Abstract behaviour class, I am adding a border to highlight the formcomponent ( Check Box or Dropdownlist) if it has any errors. If any fields are missing or invalid , I am displaying a generic error message - Invalid or missing data! Please review the fields marked in red colour.
I cannot display error messages next to the fields as I have less space around the component on the page.
I have achieved it by using a feedbackfilter for the Form and overriding the onError() method of the Form. Since the feedback messages of formcomponents are not rendered on a feedbackpanel, I am getting the following warning in the console.
WARN WebSession : Component-targetted feedback message was left unrendered. This could be because you are missing a FeedbackPanel on the page. Message: [FeedbackMessage message = "Field 'L2' is required.", reporter = L2, level = ERROR]
Is there a way we can get rid of the messages and still retain the formcomponent as invalid ( FormComponent.isVallid() ) and a clean log files ?
I have tried clearing the feedback messages from session but it has an impact on the FormComponent Valid status.
I am on Wicket 1.5
Make the feedback panel persistent invisible - there can be any messages and it still should not appear ...

Drupal Commerce Order object extra data

How might it be possible to get Commerce-Product-Display information in a Commerce-Order object?
The issue is I need to publish a Commerce-Product-Display node when a user has made a payment to publish the node. I am using Rules to detect the payment and attempt to publish the node.
My problem is, because the Completing the checkout process Rules event only has data for a Commerce-Order, and the Commerce-Order does not have information for the Product nor the Product display, I am unable to publish the node.
OK, so here's my new answer based on the new info you provided in your question
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So this is probably a little more complicated than you expected, but not impossible! Two things are important:
the line-items that are attached to your order will contain your products and
you will need to use a rule component, in order to be able to have an additional 'condition-action' combo inside your rule action
Here is how to do it:
In your rule that is triggered upon 'Completing the checkout process', add a loop in your 'Actions' section. You should see 'Add loop' right next to 'Add action'. We'll use this loop to iterate through all the commerce-line-items in your order: that's where the products are hiding
When configuring the loop, tell it to iterate through 'commerce-order:commerce-line-items' and either rename, or remember what it's going to call each line item as it goes through it.
Now - as it's going through each of your order's line items, we'll want to call an entire new rule with its own set of 'condition' and 'action'. The condition we need is to check that the line item contains the product you expect, and the action can be whatever you want - publish a node based on a certain field or whatever. In my case, the action will just be sending an email to prove I found a product. When we need condition-action sets within a rule, we need to create a rule component!!
Go to /admin/config/workflow/rules/components to create a new rule component to run for each of the above items. Click the 'Add new component' link at the top of the page
Select 'Rule' from the drop-down options, since this will be a component that contains both a condition and an action
Name the rule, and in the 'Variables' section, we have to let it know we're going to pass it a parameter to work with. In our case, it will be the commerce line item that is currently being iterated through.
Add two conditions to your component (or whatever checks you think are necessary). I added 'Entity is of type' => Commerce Line item and 'Entity has field' => commerce_product. So this runs for all my products at the moment.
The condition I set on my component is to send an email, and I filled in the following for the body of the email: [line-item:commerce_product], and it prints out the product's name beautifully in the email each time I've tested checking out!
But first - how do I call this component for each of my line item types after I save it?? Read on:
After the component is saved, Add an action to your loop:
From now on, at the very bottom of your actions, you'll see a brand new 'Components' section, and in your case, you should only have one now. Select it to call it for each item:
Last step will be to fill in the parameter to pass to this component, which is obviously the list_item you're currently on, or whatever the computer name of the current item was if you changed it.
Save and test!
Whew! It's a little complicated, but I hope it puts you in the right direction!
The way rules work in Drupal is that not all fields are shown for your entity by default in the actions. What you need to do is prompt Rules to recognize your object as a certain type of node in order for the Rule to add all of its appropriate fields.
You can do this either by
using the 'Content is of type' under the Node section check (and select your Commerce Display node type or
directly using the 'Entity has field' check under the Entities section to check for a specific field you want to use.
Either of those should prompt Rules to recognize the type of entity you're working with and populate the Actions with the necessary fields.
Let us know if this works!

should a validation function access the repository directly?

I have the following in my application:
Action Orm entity (From telerik open access)
Repository(Of Action)
AppService(Holds an instance of the repository)
when I need to save an instance, I send the instance to the AppService. the AppService then calls a validator to validate the instance to save. the validator is based on http://codeinsanity.com/archive/2008/12/02/a-framework-for-validation-and-business-rules.aspx
(full code on https://github.com/riteshrao/ncommon)
so basically my save function in the AppService looks like this
Public Sub AddAction(ByVal Item As Data.Model.Action)
Contract.Requires(Of ArgumentNullException)(Item IsNot Nothing, "Item is nothing.")
Dim validateResult As Rules.ValidationResult = _ActionValidator.Validate(Item)
If Not validateResult.IsValid Then
Throw New Validation.ValidationException(validateResult)
End If
Try
_ActionRepository.Add(Item)
_unitOfWork.SaveChanges()
Catch ex As Exception
_unitOfWork.ClearChanges()
Throw New DataServiceException(ex.Message, ex)
End Try
End Sub
for checking properties of the Action item the sample code works great. my question begins when i need to make sure that the same action is not added twice to the DB for the same customer (ie. id is difference, name is the same and customer is the same)
as I see it I have a few options:
option 1: check for a duplicate action using something like
function(validatedItem) item.Customer.Actions.Any(function(item) item.id<>validatedItem.id andalso item.name=validatedItem.name))
basically I go from the action being saved back to the customer and then back to all his actions and check if any action exists with a different id and same name
the down sides are:
a. for this to work, when accessing the customer property of the item, the entire customer object is read from DB which is redundant in this case
b. the Any function is being evaluated on the client as item.Customer.Actions returns IList(Of Action)
Option 2: let the validation class have access to the action repository. then i could simply do something like
'assume I already have validatedItem
repository.Any(function(item) item.id<>validatedItem.id and item.customerid=validatedItem.customerid and item.name=validatedItem.name)
this will result in an Exists query being sent to the DB but the downside(?) is that the validation framework should not access the repository directly (as far as I have seen in the very few examples i could find that do use validation and ORM)
Option 3: let the validation class have access to the AppService and use the AppService to check for existence of a duplicate.
problems:
a. I create a circular reference (AppService->Validation Class->AppService)
b. I need to create a lot of useless functions in the AppService for loading items based on criteria that is only relevant for the validation
Any ideas what is the best course here?
The simplest is not to check duplicates in the database from your domain.
When a collection of entities is part of you aggregate then it is a non-issue since you would not permit the duplicate to be added to the collection. Since the aggregate is stored as a whole you would never run into the problem.
For scenarios where you do not want a duplicate, say, e-mail address and no collection of the entities is represented by an aggregate (such as the Users in a system) you can just let the database enforce the uniqueness. Simply pick up the exception and report back. In many instances your validation would not be able to enforce the uniqueness simply because it doesn't have/implement the required locks that a database system would have.
So I'd simply leave that up to the database.

How to show feedback/error messages in a backbone application

I'm working on a simple CRUD proof of concept with Rails/Backbone/JST templating. I've been able to find a lot of examples up to this point. But after much searching and reading, I've yet to find a good example of how to handle these scenarios:
info message: new item successfully added to list (shown on list screen)
info message: item successfully deleted from list
error message: problem with field(s) entry
field level error message: problem with entry
The Backbone objects are:
Collection (of "post" Models) -> Model ("post" object) -> List/Edit/New Views (and a JST template for each of these views)
So, I'm looking for a high level description of how I should organize my code and templates to achieve the level of messaging desired. I already have a handle on how to perform my validation routine on the form inputs whenever they change. But not sure what do with the error messages now that I have them.
Here is the approach I'm considering. Not sure if it's a good one:
Create a "Message" Model, which maps to a "View", which is a sub-view (if that's possible) on my existing views. This view/model can display page level messages and errors in the first three scenarios I mention above. Not sure if it's feasible to have a "sub-view" and how to handle the templating for that. But if it's possible, the parent templates could include the "message" sub-template. The message view could show/hide the sub-template based on the state of the message model. Feasible? Stupid?
For the fourth scenario, the model validation will return an error object with specific messages per each erroneous field each time a "model.set" is called by form field changes. I don't want to interrupt the "model.set" but I do want to display the error message(s) next to each field. I want to know how to factor my edit/new template and Post model/view in such a way that I don't violate the MVC pattern. I.e. I don't want to put references to DOM elements in the wrong plage.
Sorry if this is vague. If you're inclined to help, let me know what code snippets could be helpful (or other details) and I'll provide them.
You create a global eventbus. When ever an error appears trigger an event. Your view that should show the message listen to the events on this eventbus. Doing so, your error message view dont needs to know all of your collection and vice versa. The eventbus is simple:
var eventBus = _.extend({}, Backbone.Events);
Add it to your collection and trigger it when ever add was called:
var myCollection = Backbone.Collection.extend({
initialize: function([],eventbus){
this.bind('add', function(obj){eventbus.trigger('added', obj)}
}
})
Take also a look at the article: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2011/07/19/references-routing-and-the-event-aggregator-coordinating-views-in-backbone-js/

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