Hi I am trying to use Power Automate to enter some menial data, however I am having problems with the Xpath.
The website is set up so that I must click a button in order to add an ingredient. The for loop I used keeps referring back to the original x-path in ingredient 1. I was wondering if there was someway to keep the xpath changing with the loop.
This is what I attempted:
I figured out a solution. Instead of using the x-path, I sent key strokes. So, if the field I wanted to enter was two tabs away, I would do {tab}{tab}, then again send the key strokes of the variable.
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I want to use <p:focus> in two ways:
1. Move to the input field if that field fails validation, i.e. is required
2. If on a page that has an input field that is visible when the page loads then move to that field. But if the page has a lot of introduction text and the input field is way down the page then don't move to the field as the user has to then scroll up to read the start of the page.
How can I have both cases handled? It seems that if I have <p:focus> I cannot avoid the page scrolling automatically way down the page if the first input field is there but I also want to move to the required field if a value has not been given.
Thanks
First, don't use the attribut for to select the default focused element.
Second, you only have to update your p:focus, and it will automatically select the first field where error occured.
For 1: See the answer above or http://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/misc/focus.xhtml
For 2: The only solution I know of that can achieve this is to not use the <p:focus/> and implement your own focus code (not to difficult). Detect the position of the first input and if it is far down, don't 'focus' it.
I have a question on the subject of composite attributes that I would be grateful if you could help me with.
I posted this before on other question blogs but got no response I am satisfied with.
I am writing JavaScript that will update the fields (i.e. address1_line1, address1_line2, address1_line3, address1_city, address1_stateorprovince, address1_postalcode, address1_country) in the composite (address1_composite). When the fields are updated the composite does not seem to update. I have to open the composite and close it again. Is there a way of doing this automatically in JavaScript?
I have tried the following ideas:
Idea 1:
Xrm.Page.data.entity.save();
This is recomended at http://community.dynamics.com/crm/b/magnetismsolutionscrmblog/archive/2013/10/22/working-with-dynamics-crm-2013-composite-fields-fly-out-menu.aspx
This is not any good as my customers want to view the composite before saving the page. Also I would not want to save the page for my customers as they do not want this. They would like to decide when to do this themselves.
Idea 2:
Xrm.Page.data.refresh();
This is not really what I wanted as I do not want to refresh the whole page. I just want to refresh the composite. Also it bring up a popup that warns you about not having saved the page which will be annoying for my customers.
Idea 3:
Writing the address from the address lines to the composite.
This feels like a nasty hack.
There is probably more than one way of doing this. I used the function
Xrm.Page.getAttribute("address1_composite")._attribute.setValueForCompositeField();
I do not like this for the following reasons:
This is a hack as it is not using the system functionality of the done button to write the data.
You do not get the system formatting you get with the done button although this will get done when the form is saved so it is not so bad.
In the future if customers are allowed to add their own composite fields it could cause problems as the field names could be different.
It requires me to write extra code for each form that has a composite which has fields with different schema names. E.g. I have to write different code for forms with ShipTo and BillTo addresses as the code for the account form will not work.
Another idea was to set the focus to the composite field after a change has been made to any of the fields inside the composite.
Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get("address1_composite").controls.get(0).setFocus();
This is the best idea so for but it is far from perfect. This forces the user to press the done button and hence the fields will be written. I was hoping for something more automated.
My Question:
What would be great is if there was a way to click the composite done button in JavaScript. This would give me the formatting of the done button and the automation I need.
Update - 14/04/2014
Since posting this question I have been in contact with Microsoft and they say there is no supported way of clicking the done button via a program.
If the field is locked down CRM JavaScript does not send the data back to the server for updating. Another approach would be:
perform the update using JavaScript (so the user sees the change); and
use a server side plugin on the Update event so the value is persisted.
I have used webshims for html5 form validation in a single page app with multiple pagelets(divs). The forms are not submitted but local javascript is invoked after each conversation and collected data is posted .
Next I iterate over all the fields and reset the values.
Then I take the new user back to the first pagelet having first form for the new conversation. This time even after filling the correct values the border does not turn green.
Note:
However when we select the field and click outside the field without filling it. and then after filling the correct data border turns green.
However when we tried to achieve it programmatically iterating over each field resetting it and using javascript focus method, that did not do the trick.
I am sure I must be missing some thing. would be able to point out what.
Regards
Barman
I'm not sure, what you want to achieve. I would need to see some code. If you change the value programmatically you can update the validation ui with the event refreshvalidityui on the form field. If you want to reset the ui, you can either trigger a reset event on the form or resetvalidityui on the form field
$('input').val('foo').trigger('refreshvalidityui');
or
$('input').val('foo').trigger('resetvalidityui');
or
$('form').trigger('reset');
Please let me know, if this helps.
hey all..
i want the user to enter a set of data such as "name" and "age" and correspondingly send it to the person bean. But the user can choose to enter any number of person's data at 1 go.
What control at GUI would be suitable for achieving this (keeping in mind i am developing the application in stuts2).
Thanks;!
There isn't going to be anything definitive. Just hand roll the solution with your favorite JS library. Adding struts2-json-plugin will probably help.
I had created something very much like what you are looking for... It was a two column table where you typed in a user name into one field, hit tab, then typed in the second field. There was one button at the end of the table, so hitting tab once more and enter added the current fields to the DB and added a new row to the table and positioned the input into the first field. It allowed for smooth data entry.
Is it possible to use the default ComboBox control under VB6 to make it a smart ComboBox?
We suppose that the values are already populated in the ComboBox. For example:
New Delhi
New World
New York
We need the ComboBox to respond to one of the default events, so when for example the user writes 'N' the value in the ComboBox will be the first Value starting by 'N'. In our case it's New Delhi and then the user can continue typing till they write the exact word or he writes something different.
This technique is very used in web Application (for example in Google when you put the first word you will get a droped down list containing the suggestions).
But how to do that in VB6 :-(
In case its not possible, how can we keep the ComboBox droped down, the values changes when the text in the comboBox change and the first element in the ComboBox correspond to the first word starting by the value entered by the user?
Thanks a lot.
Actually I found an easy solution :) thanks to FreeVbCode uder Forms&Contorls Tab. There is a control named AutoControl. We can use it easly for our requirement.
http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=5944
Thanks.
You might also want to look at this control from vbAccelerator.com, which supports auto-completion. The vbAccelerator code is usually high quality. Of course you're introducing quite a dependency into your code whenever you use a third-party control.