I'm building an InfoPath form connected to a SharePoint List.
After the user has filled out a couple of fields (which can uniquely identify a record), I re-query the main data connection to see if the item already exists. This works fine and loads the remaining details of the existing record into the form.
However, if the record does not exist, all the fields on the form become disabled... how can I reset the main data connection back to its initial state to allow a new item to be submitted?
You will need to set a condition rule. So for example on the last field the do an insert on do your query, then in your rules (you may need multiple depending on how many fields) , saying if field is (whatever) then do (whatever). The disable features are set in the formatting section of your rule.
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I'm experiencing a very weird issue with "data has been changed" errors.
I use ms access as a frontend and postgresql as backend. The backend used to be in ms access and there were no issues, then it was moved to sql server and there were no issues there either. The problem started when I moved to postgresql.
I have a table called Orders and a table called Job. Each order has multiple jobs, I have 2 forms, one parent form for the Order and one Subform for the Jobs (continuous form). I put the subform in a separate tab, first tab contains general order information and the second tab has the Job information. Job is connected Orders using a foreign key called OrderID, Id of Orders is equal to OrderID in Job.
Here is my problem:
I enter some information in the first tab, customer name, dates etc, then move to the second tab, do nothing in the second tab, go back to the first one and change a date. I get "The data has been changed" error
I'm confused as to why this is happening. Now why I call this weird?
First, if I put the subform on the first tab, I can change all fields of Orders just fine. IT's only if I put it on the second tab and, add some info, change tab, then go back and change an already existing value that I get the error
Second, if I make the subform on the second tab Unbound (so no ID - OrderID) connection, I get the SAME error
Third, the "usual" id for "The data has been changed" error is Runtime Error 440. But what I get is Runtime Error: "-2147352567 (80020009)". Searching online for this error didn't help because it can mean a lot of different things, including "The value you entered isn't valid for this field" like here:
Access Run time error - '-2147352567 (80020009)': subform
or many different results for code 80020009 but none for "the data has been changed"
MS access 2016, postgresql 12.4.1
I'm guessing you are using ODBC to connect Access to Postgresql. If so do you have timestamp fields in the data you working with? I have seen the above as the Postgres timestamp can have a higher precision then Access. This means when you go to UPDATE Access uses a truncated version of the timestamp and can't find the record and you get the error. For this and other possible causes see:
https://odbc.postgresql.org/faq.html#6.4
Microsoft Applications
We are using Master Data Services as an MDM solution for our SQL Server BI environment. I have an entity containing a first name and last name and then I have created a business rule that concatenates these two fields to form a full name which is then stored in the "name" system field of the entity.
I use this as a domain based entity in another entity. Then the user can then see the full name before linking it as a attribute in the second entity.
I want to be able to restrict the users from capturing data in the first entity against the name attribute because the business rule deals with the logic to populate this attribute. I have read that there are two ways to do this:
Set the display width to zero of the attribute. This does not seem to work, the explorer version still shows a narrow version of the field in the rows and the user can still edit the field in the detail pane.
Use the security to make the attribute read only. I have tried different combinations of this but it seems that you cannot use this functionality for a name field (system field).
This seems like pretty basic functionality that I require and it seems that there is no clear cut way to do this in MDS.
Any assistance will be appreciated.
Thanks
We do exactly the same thing.
I tested it, and whether you create a new member, or edit an existing member, the business rule just overwrites the manual input value in the name attribute.
Is there a specific 'business' reason why you need to restrict data input in the name field? If it is for Ux reasons, you can change the display name of the name attribute to something like 'Don't populate' or alternatively make it a '.', then the users won't know what to input.
I'm working on a Microsoft Access homework project. My question is: how to to make a data input form like:
"a. Construct a form that will collect sales data as input, and post it to the Sales table. Try to determine how to lock the existing records in the involved tables, so that the data in those records cannot be modified in the Form. In other words, the Form is to be used only for entering new sales and reviewing existing/previous sales, but not for altering existing records."
I've searched for tutorials on how to make forms but they are all extremely basic and don't provide enough details to help me reach the requested result. Is there a template or a design trace close to the requested form?
Set property AllowEdits of the form to False.
But this is bad design. When you have saved a new record and notice a typo or something, you can't edit it.
I have a very long order form that enables saving drafts. If saved as draft, only order name is required but when actually placing an order a more thorough validation is required. I implemented this by using different validation groups. When editing the order I display two buttons: "Save draft" and "Place order". Each of them performs validation using a different validation group.
But now I would like to make a button on the list of orders which enables to change order status from 'draft' to 'placed' directly. To do so, validation must be performed without displaying edit form and submitting it. I would just like to validate the entity that is already in the database. I can use the validator service and everything is simple as long as the data is valid. But in case data isn't valid, I would like to redirect user to the edit form with fields with missing data highlighted. The idea seems to load data from database into the form and run validation as if that data were sent using a browser but execution of this doesn't seem to be trivial because Symfony2 triggers validation on form only when binding the request.
I was going through the Symfony source code and found s class called Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Validator\EventListener\ValidationListener. It seems to attach itself on the FormEvents::POST_SUBMIT event. Is there a way to trigger this event manually from the controller without request binding? Or are there any alternative approaches to my problem?
Just to point out the correct answer already given by Matjaž Drolc in the comments:
If you want to validate a form without getting the data from the request, you have to call the form->submit() function, because Symfony does not validate the fields if they are not marked as submitted, which is done by this function.
Call the function like this
$form->submit(array(), false);
With an empty array as the submitted data and not clearing the missing fields.
I am writing a search form in CakePHP 2.0, current I have set it up running with the index action and view (it also posts to the index action) with validation against the model so that if anything incorrect is entered into a search field (fields include date, price) there is a nice validation error message next to the element. Basically it is a bit like a scaffolded add form.
If validation is successful I need to actually run a query and return some data. I don't want to display this data in the index view - should I:
Run the query then render a different view (which means the URL doesn't change - not sure I want that).
Store the search parameters in a session, redirect off to another action then retrieve the search details.
Is there any other way?
Both options are ok. You must decide what you like more, to not change the url or to change it?
you may also use the named parameters to pass the info so a user can bookmark their request, though it would need to do the validations in the same page as where it shows results. I usually do this with the cakedc search plugin.
Returning to your two options, if you mean which is better in performance i would choose number one, since the second one needs to load a new model/controller etc