First let me warn readers not to pass me off to any links in isomorphic because it is highly probable I have read it and I have scoured the smartgwt showcase running locally here as I ask this question. What I ask is not documented and if it is, I am unable to decipher and need actual explanation here. No, do not tell me about SmartGWT EE. This case is purely Smartclient interacting with my JSP (or perl, php) on the server side, which I use to interact with a SAS backend.
This question has nothing to do with how to operate SAS. I am mentioning SAS to illustrate the point that smartclient has to interact with SAS web service directly and not through SmartGWT server. I asked a similar but different question at smartclient forum which is still unanswered, so this must be a very difficult subject that probably even people at isomorphic does not have an answer.
I have
JSON xjsondatasource url produced from a SAS web service, sasxjsondsrc. I am mocking it with a JSP on Jetty.
sasxjsondsrc = id(primaryKey), name, description.
ListGrid whose datasrc is set to sasxjsondsrc.
SearchForm/DynamicForm editForm whose datasrc is set to sasxjsondsrc.
I need to
user would visually select a row on listGrid and then click del button, which my code would trigger listGrid.removeSelectedData(), which would then remove only that row locally and as well as send to sasxjsondsrc url the parameters id=id to be deleted, operation=DEL.
user would visually select a row on listGrid and then click modify button, which my code would editForm.editSelectedData(). When user presses save edit button, my code would trigger editForm.saveData(), which would then modify that row locally and as well as send to sasxjsondsrc url the parameters id=id, name=modified-value, description=modified-description, operation=MOD.
user would click add button and my code would trigger editForm.saveData(), which would then append that row locally and as well as send to sasxjsondsrc url the parameters name=new-name, description=new-description, operation=ADD.
This local-server management is what smartclient advertises itself as an advantage. The problems are
my JSP is not registering smartclient sending any parameter to indicate what operation should be performed. It is only receiving the datasource fields=values as parameters for the affected records.
the records are not appended or modified locally for add or edit operations.
to overcome problem (1), I tried providing an extra non-displayed datasource field called operation. But when a dynamic form is bound to that datasource, the dynamicform field would not allow me to programmatically modify the operation field successfully.
I tried appending operation as a DSRequest but my JSP is not receiving it either.
HOW does my JSP know what operation (ADD/REMOVE/EDIT) is being performed?
OK, to cut a long story short - datasource in SmartGWT is a horribly tricky business. I have been advised to use SmartGWT only for its UI but I should avoid using SmartGWT datasource because it is too tricky to deal with. Could some post or link me to examples of how you did your SmartGWT client programming in a configuration similar to mine.
Should I revert to using GWT 2.1M3 cell/page architecture and write my own rpc-table cells-form linking?
I think that you do actually need to be looking at the SmartGWT data sources, specifically the RestDataSource and quite possibly, the DataSource.setOperation() method.
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Currently I work an an app where the user can create products for a catalog. The status is, he can do this in one language, data gets send to the backend and saved. The next step would be to make this creation process ready for multiple languages e.g. english or french. The behaviour should be the following, he choses the language inside a drop down field and gets a form in the selected language.
The problems I encountered and my solution process till now:
1) How should the view handling be? Should I create a new fragment for every language and exchange the content? If Im correct that would mean I would need to destroy and create fragements for the languages, right? And then create them with a binded model again.
2) How should I handle the model/models? Should I create one model with the data they share e.g. creation date and create a model with language related attributes? That would be my solution right now.
Maybe you already did something similiar or have some thoughts about this, thanks for any help!
You should do neither of those things. There are mechanisms in place, generally referred to as i18n that help you with this process. UI5 help available here:
https://ui5.sap.com/sdk#/topic/df86bfbeab0645e5b764ffa488ed57dc
and
https://ui5.sap.com/sdk#/topic/5424938fc60244c5b708d71b50a0eee4
In summary, translations should be done using the i18n mechanisms and the oData logon language.
Logging into the application, assuming it's hosted on an SAP gateway or SCP / Launchpad, the user's current logon language will drive at least all standard SAP translatable texts like the labels returned from data elements in your oData services. The appropriate url parameter is sap-language=EN, but it's set automatically from the current browser settings. Generally, you don't have to worry about this.
The same browser settings drive which particular i18n file is loaded. This could be specific like en_US for American English, or fr for French.
If you code your app without any hard coded translations but always follow the rules in the links above, adding a language should be trivial.
These translations could probably be triggered programmatically via a dropdown as well but I have never tried that since it's extra steps for my users.
I am looking for best practices on SYMFONY FORM handling to achieve the following standard page (surprisingly I haven't found anything similar existing yet on SO).
Here is a shema of what I want to achieve:
As you can see at the top there is a SYMFONY FORM to filter the results that should be displayed.
It displays a table and each tuple of the table should permit to open another SYMFONY FORM kind linked to the tuple.
I am in the process of learning SYMFONY FORM, so far, I can manage to create the top row FORM to set the filter that'll apply to the table display.
But I wonder if anyone has experience on the second part: Displaying the table that embed as well many forms of a similar kind -That seems a bit more complex. I read about TWIG.EXTENSION and FORM.COLLECTION, I'll investigate that. But if someone could save me to re-invent the wheel and lead me to some direct shortcut, I'd be really grateful.
No idea if it's the best practice, but one way to do it would be to create a new property for your entity being listed in this table, called $editionForm (without mapping it to the database) for example.
Then, either throught a custom loop or by listening to a doctrine (or any ORM you use) hydration event (or triggering such an event if you don't use any ORM), fill the property with the generated form, probably within a dedicated service.
Then, just use it in your template like this :
$entity->getEditionForm()->render()
I'm trying to create subpanel in Account detail view where list of elements is fetched from external REST service.
I know how to define subpanel, but have no idea how to fill it with data from external network source. Was trying to use get_subpanel_data but there I can only change SQL.
Any ideas how can I do this?
When I've done this in the the past, at least with Sugar 6, I opted distinctly not to try to create a true subpanel. The data being loaded is coming from an outside source and is loaded dynamically with the page, so why present it as if it's static data coming from Sugar? Instead, I created a custom Smarty template to use as the footer on the detail page. For such an example, you can check how it works on the Calls Edit View. I think it's the footerTpl parameter in the detailviewdefs.php or editviewdefs.php. I loaded the smarty template by creating a custom detail view for my module, so custom/modules/MyModule/views/view.detail.php - extend the base Detail View class and override the display to feed Smarty new params, then your Smarty template only needs to iterate through and present the data that your view defined.
To be super-hip and abide by MVC, you could even put your custom code into your bean (if it's a custom module) or into a custom controller method, then reference that from the view.detail.php, and still feed it from there to the Smarty template.
Alternatively, you could just load JavaScript into the Smarty template and use the JavaScript to call the third-party service, parse and present it, etc.
I realize this question is a little bit old now however it comes up fairly often so why not provide an answer with a couple possible solutions. I won't get into code but more just into the design theory of how it can work. If someone needs more specific code help then that is another question.
A couple ideas...
As you mentioned you can define a custom Function which will load in Data to the SubPanel from your own SQL Query. That is one method that I just recently got to finally put to use after knowing about it for a good year and a half.
When you go this route, you are restrained to using the Columns in the SubPanel. I assume it is using the actual Metadata files to determine which Field Columns a SubPanel can use so you pretty much need your custom data in a Database table to have the same column names as the fields defined in the SubPanel Metadata.
Obviously this works great in the right situation, however not always and that leads us into the 2nd method I know of.
The other way is pretty much what #Mattew-Poer mentioned in his answer. It means abandoning the SubPanel altogether and instead generating your own HTML. This is by far my favorite and prefered way of doing it and I have been some really custom modules due to this being possible in a custom module! I will show an example below.
(Click HERE to View full size image)
In the screenshot, you can see in this example that I have something looking Similar to a SubPanel however it is not and is much for flexible and easy to customize.
Example, to the far left column in my fake subpanel is image checkboxes. When clicked on, an AJAX request is made to change the Task row Status.
After that, the checkbox image is updated to indicate the new Status state, the Modified DateTime is updated, the Status column has color background SPANS and is also updated with the correct text and background color when the left side checkbox is clicked.
Doing any of this with the standard SubPanels is a complete nightmare and would be difficult to do some of the stuff that you are open to do when you build your own version of a SubPanel.
With that said, I have built an identical clone of the above screenshot using SugarCRM default SubPanels! It was a nightmare. I could easily update the content and HTML in some of the columns. I even had the AJAX click checkbox image to update and do all the other updates I mentioned above. It wasn't too hard and worked fairly good but it had some issues.
When you do inline edit, inline create record, or subpanel paging to load different set of record. You would then lose all the custom HTML formatting that was applied. The reason is, in the SubPanel you are limited to using the After UI load logic hook. So since the "Page" is loaded already, when an AJAX request is made to add/edit the subpanel content or load a new set of items with the paging links. It only loads the SubPanel content on those events and the whole Page content does not reload. Because the logic hook only fires off 1 time after the page loads, this newly loaded subpanel data doe not receive any of your custom HTML formatting.
In my case, this means that nice looking colored background Status spans are lost, the image checkboxes are lost, and some other functionality is lost.
Now to get super technical, I could have gone another 3rd route and instead made new Custom Field Types for each SubPanel filed that I needed to apply custom HTML to. This process is super hard in my experience and in some cases it really isn't the BEST solution.
Because of the reason explained, this is why my new modules use the Custom HTML route to generate my own version of a custom subpanel or whatever Data is needed in my Module pages! So far it is working better than I imagined and has opened doors for me to build custom SugarCRM modules that I previously didn't even realize would be possible to build due to some of the issues I mentioned above. Now I bypass them altogether and open the door to do pretty much anything!
I've got some really cool stuff for SugarCRM in the works right now. If anyone has any questions feel free to ask in a new question or for me personally in a comment here.
I have this gwt app which say, runs on http://mygwtapp.com/ (which is actually: http://mygwtapp.com/index.html)
The app host a database of users, queried by searching usernames using the search view and results are shown in the user results view. Pretty useful enough. However I need to bb add a way that user view can be viewed by just typing http://myapp.com/user123
I am thinking that the question I have here, the answer is a server side solution. However if there's a client side solution, please let me know.
One fellow here in StackOVerflow suggested that the format would be like this:
mygwtapp.com/index.html#user123
However the format is important to be like: http://myapp.com/user123
The 'something' in 'http://host/path#something' is a Fragment identifier. FIs have a specific feature: the page isn't reloaded if only FI part in URL changes, but they still take part in browser history.
FI's are a browser mechanism that GWT uses to create "pages", i.e. parts of GWT application that are bookmarkable and have history support.
You can try to use an URL without # (the FI separator), but then you will have a normal URL, that reloads the page with every change and it could not be (easily) a part of a normal GWT app.
mygwtapp.com/index.html#user123
That would be using the History mechanism (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsHistory.html) which I would add is the recommended way of doing it.
However, if you insist on using something like http://myapp.com/user123, one of the possible ways is to have a servlet which accepts this request (you might have to switch to something like http://myapp.com/details?id=user123). The servlet will look up the DB and return your host html back. Before returning it will inject the required details as a Dictionary entry in the page (http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/javadoc/1.5/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/Dictionary.html) On the client you can read this data and display on the UI
I'm asking for help to my problem. I am new to JSF and I have a simple JSF online store demo page. I don't even use navigation rules since I only include the page with search results beneath the searching tags fields. The problem is a have sth like 15 fields (input texts and menus) to perform a detailed search. After selecting the fields and clicking on the search button I have to generate a long GET request for the database (which is located on a different server than my page and uses REST), receive the response (xml format), extract the search results and publish them on the page. The search patter is sth like this:
http://serveradress/search/ [x1][x2][x3]....[xn]
Where x1-xn are the values for the search engine and have to be read from the page's fields, so it has to be generated dynamically. The get request can be very long since there are 15 fields and one can have some additional options. The data base is on a different server and responds with an xml script with search results.
I found some solutions on the internet on how to perform a GET request using params but don't really know how can it fit to my problem since I have to receive the results from an external data base and manage them rather inside the java bean for publishing (i do not want to change the url adres of my page).
I am using JSF 1.2, with Eclipse IDE and JBoss on Ubuntu. The search request has to be GET since the data base uses that REST interface.
I am asking for your help in this matter if someone is able to find a solution to this problem or provide me with some link. I would strongly appreciate an example code with the solution.
Use JBOSS resteasy RESTful API's