I have a MS CRM 4 form where when certain fields are changed, I need those fields to be written to an excel sheet.
So, I edited the form field onchange event to call crmform.save() which triggers a plugin to run that writes the field value to a named range (1 cell) of an excel sheet.
However, I don't know which field caused the save. Is there a way to get that information? (Not all fields on the form need to go to the excel sheet)
If I use this: DynamicEntity target = (DynamicEntity)Context.InputParameters[ParameterName.Target];
I can look at specific fields, but I have no way of knowing which ones changed.
Any suggestions?
It's my experience that only the changed fields will have value (in the DynamicEntity) when you update an entity. So let's say you have an entity with a FirstName and Lastname. If you only change the LastName and save. The LastName will have a value however FirstName with be null (unless you have som javascript code that forces the FirstName to be submitted).
If your plugin is triggered on the Pre-Event of the Update on your entity, you should be able to compare the IPluginExecutionContext.PreEntityImages to your DynamicEntity that you've fetched from the Target.
Or if your plugin is triggered on the Post-Event of the Update, you should be able to compare the IPluginExecutionContext.PreEntityImages with IPluginExecutionContext.PostEntityImages.
Looks like you are already going a different way, but another suggestion is to create a hidden field - "FieldThatChanged." In your field on-change javascript, set that field to the name of the field that changed, then access that in your plugin.
Yep, totally changed the way I approached this. I'm using jquery in an iframe to pass all the exact fields (name/value pairs) I want to a method of an ASPX file running in the ISV folder that takes the neccesary action. Thanks for the suggestions all!
I recommend using the Pre and Post Images as suggested by #Forgotten Semicolon. And in addition set the Filtering Attributes so the Plugin is triggered only on the change of the fields you care about.
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I have a form where a user enters an Id into a text field, and I then I validate said Id on the server. If the Id does not exist in the system, I display an error. I do this using async validation. If the Id does exist, however, the server will return a record from our database. I want to use those values to auto populate other fields in the form.
How would I accomplish this?
I did some searching and the closest solution I found was this other question on StackOverflow. The thing is, I want to change the value after my asycValidate logic has succeeded. I don't think I can trigger the action creator from inside asyncValidate, and I'm not aware of a way to have asyncValidate trigger a callback from inside the form component.
I was able to get it to work, by following the solutions discussed in the following thread: https://github.com/erikras/redux-form/issues/442
I am creating a new Joomla Component. I am able to create custom fields for the component backend forms - but I am not able to create Dynamic Custom Fields.
What I would like to do is have a field that is dynamical populated based on the value of a previous field. The easiest way to explain this is the simple country,state,city breakdown.
Field 1 = Country
Field 2 = State (Based on what the user selected as as Country in Field 1)
Field 3 = City (Based on what the user selected as State in Field 2)
The fields would of course need to be refreshed, reset as the user picks a different country etc.
The data to populate the fields would also all need to come from a database based on the previous fields value.
I am guessing this needs to be done via ajax or javascript or something? But wondering if there is an official way? Especially since there are database calls involved.
Please let me know if there is anything I can explain better..
David
I ended up just creating text fields but then validating the input to make sure the values added are correct.
We have a requirement to pre-populate the Contact Form with user information on load if the user is a logged in user. So that, user need not fill his information using the webform.
Is there any way to do this using webforms for marketers?
Data is coming from a service api in json format. Need to figure out a way to bind it to fields either in server side or in client side.
Sitecore Version 7.1 140117 WFFM Version "Web Forms for Marketers
2.4.0 rev. 140117"
Have a look at Sitecore - Webforms For Marketers Form - Use ReadQueryString Option. Basically, there is a checkbox, ReadQueryString, in presentation details that gives you the option to fill in the default values from the query string. If checked, you use the item names of the fields (not the display name or title) as keys and the values you want to set the fields to as the values in key-value pair in the querystring.
Create a new rule based on use default value from user profile [fieldname] field and amend it to pick up the value from your service API.
This will be your best way and simplest option in my opinion.
I use this same approach prepopulating ucommerce data from its API.
Create custom field and then you can pre-populate values as per your need.
Like if you want to populate any value in Single line text field the create custom field for this and then reflect forms dll and copy code then update code as per your need.
Please check https://sitecoretweaks.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/custom-field-type-for-sitecore-web-form-for-marketers/ blog post for more details.
I have a Master Detail form in my Oracle APEX application. When I am trying to update data in this form, I am getting below error.
Current version of data in database has changed since user initiated
update process. current row version identifier =
"26D0923D8A5144D6F483C2B9815D07D3" application row version identifier
= "1749BCD159359424E1EE00AC1C3E3FCB" (Row 1)
I have cleared browser cache and try to update. But it not worked.
How can I solve this?
I have experienced similar problem where my detail records set has timestamp fields. By default master detail wizard creates the timestamp fields as date picker type fields. If you set the date format on these, it would resolve the issue.
This blog post tries to address this issue on a Tabular Form (I know that's not what the original issue was with, but thought it might be related). It says the same as #sangam does below.
Short version: If you have an updated field that's timestamp datatype, you should set a date/time format.
http://apexbyg.blogspot.com/2015/05/tabular-form-bug.html
My tabular form has a field that's timestamp datatype, but I had already set a date format, so this didn't help me.
Here's another possibility, which I discovered was the case in my application.
That would be if the data the original checksum was calculated on is truly different than the pre-update checksum calculation, due to a design-flaw in your query!
In my application, the source for one of the updateable fields was COALESCE(name_calced, name_preferred). In the source table, the person's name could already be loaded in the record by an external process and we save it to one field - name_calced. But the end-user can enter a preferred name, which we wanted to save to the name_preferred field. We wanted to initially populate the displayed, updateable tabular form field with name_calced, if one existed, or name_preferred if the user had already provided a preferred name. Then they could change that value and save it back to the database.
I finally discovered that the Save action threw the error message if name_calced was non-null, but name_preferred was null. I realized that the initial checksum was calculated based on name_calced, but the pre-update checksum was based on name_preferred, so the application thought someone had changed the value in the background and showed the error message.
What I don't understand is how this problem didn't show up in the past 3 years the application has been running in production!
My solution is to make the field source only on name_preferred, which immediately solved this problem. I also think the back-end process will also get changed to pre-populate that table field from name_calced, so the user always sees the base value, if there is one.
I just had this issue myself. Now, I realize that tabular forms are deprecated at this time, but I have an application that was developed beforehand and still uses them. This issue occurred and I had to get one of our big guns at Oracle to help me out. I do a lot of DB work and a decent amount of Apex development but I'm more of a Java, WebLogic, etc guy, and I really couldn't figure this one out.
In my case, it turned out to be really simple. One of the columns in my tabular form was a hidden field, generated via a sub query. Being hidden, this column is not editable by the user and should not be part of the MRU update. I had the field set to "Hidden Column (saves states)" and setting its type to "Hidden Column" fixed the issue. So, this leads to sub queries being executed in such a way as to change the checksum for the overall query before hitting submit (save), causing the error.
For those who are continuing to troubleshoot this, look at your query for every field that you have specified and note which columns are editable in the tabular form. All other fields should be set in a way that makes them not save state so that they are not part of the update.
I had this error when I had two update processes processing on submit.
My solution was to add a condition to both processing steps. I had forgotten to do this when I made an additional process for Button A, but I never updated Button B to limit it's behaviors.
Navigation:
Processing -> Processes -> [Your Process Name] -> Server-side Condition -> When Button Pressed = [Your button Name]
In my case I had a column from a secondary table that was not set as Query Only and was being updated! The error would occur trying to save a column not in the table being updated. It took me half a day to figure it out (the column names were the same).
Set your Link column hidden to display only in the form.
Set "Send On Page Submit" to 'No' or disable the link column that is your primary key ( Rownum/rowid/id etc).
Hope it will work for you.
I have noticed this error comes when I was working Tabular Form and has disabled one of the form operations i.e. by setting server-side condition to "Never" for add, apply changes (submit) buttons
When I have restored back to its original state, it worked as expected.
In case you have to hide Add/Update button, use some other option.
https://compknowledgebase.blogspot.com/2018/12/oracle-apex-error-current-version-of.html
I have a custom entity in Microsoft CRM (4.0). The user has to input records however usually they have a batch of 20+ records that are almost the same apart from 2 or 3 fields which need changing. I know I need to write some custom code to enable this functionally. However can anyone recommend any methods to do this.
Ideally there should be a button that will save and create a copy as a new entity.
My Current way of thinking is to pass all the details as part of the URL and use javascript to strip them out on the page load event. Any ideas welcome.
Thanks
Luke
I found the answer here:
http://mscrm4ever.blogspot.com/2008/06/cloning-entity-using-javascript.html
I've used it and it appears to work well.
Since there are numerous fields, but only certain fields values are different, then i am thinking to set the default value to all the fields, so that users just need to alter those values when needed.
In my approach, i will hook a javascript function on load of the form data entry screen and use XmlHttp approach/Ajax approach to hook to the custom web service to pull/retrieve the default values of each fields. Or you can set those values at the javascript function itself, but the drawback of this, it's difficult to customize later. So i will choose the approach to hook to the custom web service and retrieve those value from some application parameter entity.
Your idea of providing a "clone" button is also a great idea, which means that it will duplicate all the attributes of the previous record, into a new record, so that it will save time for data entry person to customize the different value
EDIT
Since you would enter records in batch mode, how about customizing .ASPX screen to enter records. By customizing through .ASPX screen, you can use a tab , so that users can browse through tabs, to customize the value/attribute of each record.
There will be a "save" button as well as "clone" button to clone some common attribute or value.
I would create a custom web service that would accept the entity type and the ID of the record I'm cloning. Your "Save and Clone" button would call the service, and the service would handle the details of retrieving the current record and deciding which fields to set on the new record. The service creates the record, and sends the Guid of the record back to your button, which then opens up the newly created record.
This way, you avoid the messiness of setting/getting values in JavaScript and tying which fields to set/retrieve directly to your OnLoads, as well as avoiding the possibility of query string that's too long.
The service could easily be sufficiently generalized so that all you'd have to do is add your button to any entity, and it would work, assuming you'd set up your service to handle that particular entity.
One possible downside is that since the clone record button would actually create the record, the user would be forced to delete the cloned record if they decided they didn't want to clone the record after all.