Basically, what I want is that the user should be able to select the dropdown and not be able to change it after making and saving the selection. So it will be a one-time entry field.
Below is a screenshot of the field I want to apply this property.
So this field has a Yes or No selection. And to make the business logic from failing I have to make it a one-time entry field only.
I looked up the form editor for possible things but couldn't find anything that would let me achieve this.
UPDATE #1
Below is my onload function:
function Form_onload() {
var formType = Xrm.Page.ui.getFormType();
var p = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("opportunityid");
--------------NEW CODE--------------------------------
if(formType ==2){ //form type 2 means the form is a saved form. form type 1 is new form.
alert(formType);
var myattribute = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("var_internal");
var myname = myattribute.getName();
if (Xrm.Page.getControl(myname) != null) {
//alert(myname);
Xrm.Page.getControl(myname).setDisabled(true);
}
}
--------------NEW CODE---------------------------
if (formType == 1 && p != null && p.getValue() != null) {
alert('Child Opportunities can only be created by clicking the Create Child Opportunity button in the Opportunity ribbon.');
window.top.close();
}
}
No code solution: I think you could use an Option set with a Yes/No option and a default of Unassigned Value. Then add that field to Field Level Security with "Allow Update" set to No.
When updating the FLS field permissions, be sure that the profile is associated with the organization "team" so that all users can see the field:
Arun already gave you an hint how to proceed, I just tried this req on one of my instance.
Create one extra field (dummy field) in my case I call it new_hasfieldbeenchanged1
This field will hold data when field is changed. Lock this field (always) and keep this field on form (but visibile =false)
Now you need 2 trigger Onload and OnSave. Below function will do your work. Let me know if this helps.
function onLoad(executionContext) {
debugger;
var formContext;
if (executionContext && executionContext.getFormContext()) {
formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
//executionContext.getEventSource()
if (formContext.getAttribute("new_hasfieldbeenchanged1") && formContext.getAttribute("new_hasfieldbeenchanged1").getValue()!=null) {
if (formContext.getControl("new_twooptionfield")) {
formContext.getControl("new_twooptionfield").setDisabled(true);
}
}
}
}
function onSave(executionContext) {
debugger;
var formContext;
if (executionContext && executionContext.getFormContext()) {
formContext = executionContext.getFormContext();
//executionContext.getEventSource()
if(formContext.getAttribute("new_hasfieldbeenchanged1") && formContext.getAttribute("new_twooptionfield") && formContext.getAttribute("new_twooptionfield").getIsDirty()){
formContext.getAttribute("new_hasfieldbeenchanged1").setValue((new Date()).toString());
if (formContext.getControl("new_twooptionfield")) {
formContext.getControl("new_twooptionfield").setDisabled(true);
}
}
}
}
Due to environment-specific settings in my DEV, I was not able to reproduce what was suggested by #Eccountable. Although, his solution worked in other environments.
#AnkUser has a good answer as well but I was looking to shorten the code and make things as simple as possible.
My solution
I was able to handle this using Javascript on client-side. using the XRM toolbox.
In the XRM toolbox, I located the javascript for the opportunity and observed field changes in formType when the Opportunity was New and when the Opportunity was Existing. This variable (formType) was =1 when the Opportunity was New and =2 when it was Existing/Saved.
Using this piece of information I was able to leverage my Javascript as follows in Form_onload()
function Form_onload() {
if (formType == 2) {
var myattribute = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("internal");
var myname = myattribute.getName();
if (Xrm.Page.getControl(myname) != null) {
Xrm.Page.getControl(myname).setDisabled(true);
}
}
}
There’s no OOB configuration for such custom requirements, but we can apply some script logic.
Assuming this is a picklist with default null and not a two-option bool field, we can use onLoad form script to check if it has value & lock it. No need to have onChange function.
If it’s a bool field, then it’s hard to achieve. You have to track the initial value & changes made to implement the logic you want. Or through some unsupported code.
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I have a Dynamics entity that has a relationship to another entity with a Main form in UX. I have a lookup control on the form to select that related entity. Doing so correctly writes the ID of that related entity record to the current record being edited. I need help grabbing the name value of that linked entity and writing it to the name value of the current record when the lookup selection changes. The form designer makes this so much more difficult than it needs to be! Is there a set of basic jscript libraries that I can add to my solution and call for such simple tasks?
After literally HOURS of hunting down bits and pieces, I finally got this to work!
function updateName(){
var name = "";
var lookupField = Xrm.Page.getAttribute("lookupentityproperty");
// Verify the field does exist on the form and has a selected value
if (lookupField != null && lookupField.getValue() != null && lookupField.getValue()[0] != null) {
name = lookupField.getValue()[0].name;
}
else { name = null; }
var nameField= Xrm.Page.getAttribute("nameproperty");
nameField.setValue(name);
}
I've followed this tutorial to create a custom dynamic backend configuration with serialized data, and everything is working as expected. yay
But now I want to take another step and only show some inputs when a specific value is selected in a select box. I know that I can use when doing this with system.xml, but how can I accomplish the same thing via code with dynamics serialized tables?
I ended up doing some kind of Javascript workaround to enable/disable a certain input.
function togleSelect(element)
{
var val = element.value;
var name = element.name;
if (val == 0) // select value to be triggered
{
name = name.substr(0, name.lastIndexOf("[")) + "[name_of_my_input]";
var target = document.getElementsByName(name);
target[0].disabled = false;
}
else
{
name = name.substr(0, name.lastIndexOf("[")) + "[name_of_my_input]";
var target = document.getElementsByName(name);
target[0].disabled = true;
}
}
It's not the best solution but it's working.
Can somebody help me interpret what the heck this means from the bot framework documention:
You can also pass in LUIS entities to bind to the state. If the EntityRecommendation.Type is a path to a field in your C# class then the EntityRecommendation.Entity will be passed through the recognizer to bind to your field. Just like initial state, any step for filling in that field will be skipped.
When I call my dialog I pass in my LuisResult result Entities collection like so:
context.Call(new FormDialog<ItemSearch>( new ItemSearch(), ItemSearch.BuildForm, options: FormOptions.PromptInStart,entities:result.Entities), null);
Within those entities is at least one which maps in both name and type to a public property on my dialog however the state never gets filled. What am I missing?
TIA.
You can find an example of this in the PizzaOrderDialog. if you look at FormDialog implementation, it is using the entity.type to map the passed in entity recommendation to a step in the form. Then the detected entities will be provided as an input to that step of the form.
Here is an example of how form can skip the kind step based on the detected entities by Luis model in pizza form:
var entities = new List<EntityRecommendation>(result.Entities);
if (!entities.Any((entity) => entity.Type == "Kind"))
{
// Infer kind
foreach (var entity in result.Entities)
{
string kind = null;
switch (entity.Type)
{
case "Signature": kind = "Signature"; break;
case "GourmetDelite": kind = "Gourmet delite"; break;
case "Stuffed": kind = "stuffed"; break;
default:
if (entity.Type.StartsWith("BYO")) kind = "byo";
break;
}
if (kind != null)
{
entities.Add(new EntityRecommendation(type: "Kind") { Entity = kind });
break;
}
}
}
var pizzaForm = new FormDialog<PizzaOrder>(new PizzaOrder(), this.MakePizzaForm, FormOptions.PromptInStart, entities);
It also appears that there is an issue with passing Entities in. It seems to work if the property you are mapping to is a Enum (as per the PizzaBot sample). However if the public property is a string, it doesn't map. I'm not sure about other types.
See here https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/151
I have created a custom validator in Sitecore. It executes correctly, and I can debug it and step through it.
I extended my validator from StandardValidator, which in turn extends from BaseValidator.
In my validator, I get the item:
var item = GetItem();
GetItem is a method from BaseValidator. Based on my reading, this is the standard method to get the item to be validated.
The problem: the item I get back doesn't reflect the values that have been edited in Content Editor. Instead, it appears to simply be the item from the database (so, what it looked like when it first loaded in Content Editor, without reflecting any changes that might have been made to it).
Thus, I cannot validate. To validate the data an editor might have changed in Content Editor, I need to be able to see those changes. Seeing how the item sits in the database right now doesn't help me.
I did some extended debugging, which may or may not be helpful --
I decompiled the kernel, and walked through both StandardValidator and BaseValidator.
The GetItem method from BaseValidator does what I suspect -- it gets the item from the database. But then it runs it through a method called UpdateItem which appears be intended to overlay the inputted values from Content Editor on top of the stored values (thus returning an object that accurately reflects the data which is currently sitting in the editor). This is clearly what I want.
However, UpdateItem only appears to overlay anything if a property called ControlToValidate has a value...and it never does. I've tried this validator as both a Field Validator and an Item Validator. I've initiated it by both saving an item and by tabbing off a field. I put a breakpoint in Visual Studio and a watch on ControlToValidate. One time (inexplicably) it had a value of FIELD165901047 (which corresponded to a field ID in content editor), but in all other cases, it's been null.
What this means is that UpdateItem effectively does nothing, and the item is simply returned as it currently sits in a database, which doesn't help -- I'm trying to validator values entered in Content Editor before saving to the database.
Regardless of my investigation (I think I understand UpdateItem, but I concede that I might be misinterpeting it, and I'm not accounting for potential decompilation errors), I still have this basic problem:
var item = GetItem();
That never seems to return the values from Content Editor. It returns the item directly from the database, which doesn't help me.
In my validator (a field type validator) I've used
var field = this.GetField();
to get new value of the field to validate. The same should work for a field validator. It's probably a bit different for an item validator but I've never written an item validator.
It's also a method of the BaseValidator and returns a value of the type Field. You can assign this directly to the type of the target field you want, e.g. HtmlField (Sitecore has implemented the casting operators so you can do this):
HtmlField htmlField = field;
I managed to create a work-around for this, and it seems to be working for me. I'm not that happy that I don't know why controlToValidate never has a value, but my workaround manages to get the new value that hasn't yet been saved.
Basically, I've overridden the code that runs GetItem(), and I find the new value in the page's SaveArgs as shown below. The magic happens on the line that has:
field.Value = ((((SaveArgs) ((ClientPage) page)?.CurrentPipelineArgs)?.Items[0].Fields) ?? Array.Empty<SaveArgs.SaveField>()).FirstOrDefault(x => x.ID == field.ID)?.Value ?? field.Value;
protected override Item GetItem()
{
var obj = base.GetItem();
if (obj == null || obj.Versions.Count == 0)
return null;
UpdateItem(obj);
return obj;
}
private void UpdateItem(Item item)
{
Assert.ArgumentNotNull(item, nameof(item));
using (new SecurityDisabler())
item.Editing.BeginEdit();
var page = (Page)null;
var current = HttpContext.Current;
if (current != null)
page = current.Handler as Page;
foreach (Field field in item.Fields)
{
var controlToValidate = ControlToValidate;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(controlToValidate) || field.ID != FieldID)
{
field.Value = ((((SaveArgs) ((ClientPage) page)?
.CurrentPipelineArgs)?.Items[0].Fields) ?? Array.Empty<SaveArgs.SaveField>()).FirstOrDefault(x => x.ID == field.ID)
?.Value ?? field.Value;
}
else
{
var str = current != null ? RuntimeValidationValues.Current[controlToValidate] : null;
if (page != null && str != null)
{
var control = page.FindControl(controlToValidate);
if (control != null)
{
if (control is IContentField contentField)
str = contentField.GetValue();
else if (ReflectionUtil.GetAttribute(control, typeof(ValidationPropertyAttribute)) is ValidationPropertyAttribute attribute)
str = ReflectionUtil.GetProperty(control, attribute.Name) as string;
}
}
if (str == null && current != null)
str = current.Request.Form[controlToValidate];
if (str != null && str != "__#!$No value$!#__")
field.Value = str;
}
}
}
How i can enable certain fields on add mode and disable on edit mode. I have add the following code but i unable to enable the description field on add mode. Please advise how I can achieve this?. Thank you
model.fields(p=> p.Description).Editable(false);
I want to enable description on add mode and disable on edit mode. THe following code is not working. Please advise if anything wrong with the code and if any other way to do it. THank you
function onEdit(e) {
var indexCell = e.container.context.cellIndex;
var grid = $('#BTSession').data('kendoGrid');
if (!e.model.isNew()) { // when Editing
if (indexCell != 'undefined' && grid.columns[indexCell].Title == "Description") {
$('#BTSession').data("kendoGrid").closeCell();
}
}
}
There are two problems:
The title is lowercase. The check should be: grid.columns[indexCell].title
isNew() is always false. Alternatively you might check for id being undefined when you add a new record.
Something like:
function onEdit(e) {
var indexCell = e.container.context.cellIndex;
var grid = $('#BTSession').data('kendoGrid');
if (e.model.id) { // when Editing the id is defined
if (indexCell != 'undefined' && grid.columns[indexCell].title == "Description") {
grid.closeCell();
}
}
}
NOTE: If in your model the id column is not called id (lets say myId) use the correct name.
EDIT: See a running example here