My installation involves 2 steps:
Enter count of entities (could be number between 1 and 100)
Enter some details for each entity (e.g. host, port, url, etc.)
I'm able to create form for the first entity with all the input fields including validations and store entered details in variables. But I don't know how to simply reuse existing form to collect details for the remaining entities. I don't want to copy+paste this form (and variables) hundred times and use some visibility script to show only first N forms.
Is there some built-in component that could dynamically generate form/variables for each entity (based on the entered count)? In ideal case with next/previous feature, and command line support. I cannot find any help/documentation related to this problem.
I'm using install4j 6.0.4.
You can use a screen group do iterate. Right-click on the form screen and select "Create screen group from selection" from the context menu. In the configuration of the screen group, select the "Loop" property and configure its child property to set up looping. The installer variable configured in the "Loop index variable name" property can be used in the form screen.
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I'm working with a windows application and at a certain point I should select an edit field to be filled with some text. The problem is that next to the field it's a button and next to the button it's another field that (in the UI Automation helper) has the same name as the first one. Blue Prism is throwing an error: More than one element matched the query terms. How can I select just the first field? If I can't do that, is any option to change the name of the second field?
The easiest solution would be to check the "Match" checkbox for the "Match Index" property for each of the two entries in the Application Modeler and test to see which responds to a value of 1, and which responds to a value of 2.
It's important to note that this will more often than not make your solution more sensitive to interface changes within the target application.
How do I cause APEX to refresh a chart (graph) after I change the value in a text box/select list/etc that is used as a parameter in the chart's pl/sql statement?
I'd like it to look as professional as possible and minimize the portion of the page that must be refreshed (i.e., "ajax-like", which is the standard in 2018).
Create a dynamic action on the text box/select list/etc that is changed with event "change"
Create a true action and select pl/sql and write
Begin
null;
end;
In page items to submit select your items
Create a second true action after the first and select Refresh. Then select region as affected element and select your chart. Remember that the option 'Fire on initialization' must be set to NO
See Approach B, below, for the optimal solution.
Approach A
The simplest option (that is less professional) is to modify every text box/select list/etc of interest to submit the page when the value of the text box/select list/etc changes. As an example, for the select list, go to its settings->page action on selection and change the setting to submit page.
There are two main downsides to that approach:
Most of the page will refresh, which is jarring to your user, and
If you're using a plugin, or the type of item that you're using doesn't support that approach, then you're out of luck.
Approach B
A more complex solution that yields a more professional result follows. This solution involves dynamic actions, which I will probably not fully explain here. However, the information should be enough for the user to figure it out.
Let us suppose that you have two things: (1) a select list whose value is used as a parameter in a (2) chart's sql source statement.
To get the chart to update every time you make a new choice via the select list, you need to:
Create a dynamic action for the select list of interest. You do this by clicking on the select list, going to the dynamic action tab (the lightning bolt); right-click on the item; click select dynamic action; give it a name and set the event to change and make the selection type an item and set the item to the name of the select list you're watching.
Create a true action for that dynamic action that executes pl/sql code (you can do this by modifying the show action that was created by default in 1.). Set the pl/sql code to null;. Then under items to submit, specify the name of the select list of interest.
Create a second true action that refreshes the region that contains the chart.
You'll need to make sure that the sequence assigned to 2. is a smaller number than the sequence assigned to 3.. This should happen by default, but it's an area you can get tripped up.
Inapplicable Approach C
In Apex 5.something, they added a feature called Cascading List of Values. This feature allows you to specify that one item depends on another item for its values. For example, if you have a select list that allows the user to choose a department, and then you have a second select list that allows you to choose an employee from the chosen department (which presumably obtains its values from a query involving the value chosen in the first select list), you can tell APEX to refresh the second select list whenever you update the first.
You do this by editing the second select list. Under its settings goto list of values->cascading LOV parent item(s). Add the first select list as a "reverse" dependent (aka, "parent"). This will ensure that any time the first select list is updated, the second select list is also updated.
For better or for worse, charts do not have the cascading LOV parent item(s) setting. Thus, this solution does not apply to this question.
continuing a project I have posted a few questions for already are you able to have a more precise definition of what a dropdown is populated with?
I am using FM Starting Point and have a Projects, Estimate and Task table. A project can hold multiple estimates and tasks. Estimates contain multiple lines (stored in a separate table).
When In a Project you can add a task for that project. What I want to do is replace the field that gives the task a name with a list of lines contained within the estimates related to the project i have selected to add the task from.
I have created a dropdown and using the inspector got it to display all estimate lines but somehow I need to write a function that will only select lines from estimates that are within the project and also only estimates that have a field set to "active" for example.
what I am struggling with is where I can programme such a thing? In the inspector, you are limited to displaying a value and cant programme in a statement. I have tried a script that executes OnObjectEnter or OnObjectModify but that doesn't appear to work.
Any ideas where I can enter a more complex set of rules as to what populates a dropdown?
Create a relationship with the criteria you need. Base the value list for the dropdown on this relationship.
As for display, The value list's second field can be from a calculated field with any data or several other fields stringed together if no single field is sufficient. The first field should be the ID.
I am creating a database that contains Product information (tblProductInfo), a list of test methods (tblTests), and the results that the product gets (tblResults).
I'm adding forms so that a user can enter the results of a previous or new product. This information will be added once all the testing for that product is done. So, I would like to be able to show a list of the tests from tblTests, and have the user enter the results in a text box of some sort displayed directly next to the tests. I can't figure out a way to do so, where it will then save all the results that the user entered.
I have created a form with a subform, where the subform shows the 2 columns (tests and results) and when I change it to allow DataEntry, it gets rid of all the test names. I need it to keep the test names displayed, but allow entry in the results column.
Any ideas?
Below is a screenshot of an example of what I would like, although I need the Results column to be empty.
Create a continuous subform with only the tblresults as the recordsource, and for the header or each field of results use the related test as the label is how I would do it. Set allow additions to yes, allow edits to no allow deletions to no.
I have a form, the form is bound to a query which returns only one field. On that form is one combo box, bound to the field from the query, a subform object and some other unimportant stuff. The Master-Child relationship between the Form and Subform is set to that same field. The intent is that dropping down the combo box allows me to add information on the subform pertaining to that record in the combobox (it's a list of classes in a school, for context). This is done through a form and subform as I have various different tasks that need to be done for each class - the intent is to be able to select a class on the main form and then use command buttons on it to select which subform is opened depending on which task I wish to perform.
However, the Combo box appears to be trying to update a table - I'm not sure which one as the error message isn't specific:
The changes you requested to the table were not successful because
they would create duplicate values in the index, primary key or
relationship. Change the data in the field or fields that contain
duplicate data, remove the index or redefine the index to allow
duplicate values and try again
appears if I select any value other than the first one from the combo box and then click in the first text box on the subform. However, I can click in the subform with the first entry in the combo box selected and add data successfully, I've checked and it is appearing in the underlying tables.
It seems to me, as a relative novice in Access, that the combo box is attempting to update the underlying data source when it is changed, though it has no macros. I would assume there are items in the properties of the form or the combobox that prevent that from happening but I can't find them. That is just a guess as to what's happening, though, and I could be wrong.
It's possible that this is related to this question but I could be mistaken there as well. Regardless, the Form shouldn't be able to update/edit/add records but if I set Allow Edits in its properties to "No" I am unable to actually select a value from the combobox - I have set the other "Allow" properties to "No" without a problem.
If you change anything in the main form and then click on the subform then Access will try to save the data in the main form automatically. Maybe you can try to temporally exchange the combo box with a text field for testing. That should help you to clarify the problem.