updating / refreshing view

[Former Member]

Hi.

Can someone please point me in the right direction. I am having troubles refreshing a view and updating view elements with new data.

There are two groups within a single view. first contains a table, second some input fields. I have a copy button in the table toolbar and I want to copy fields from the selected row into the inputfields below.

I am doing this with something like this in the onActionCopyLine():

wdContext.currentContextElement().setField(wdContext.currentXxxElement().getField());

...but the input fields are not refreshed with the new values.

I reckon I need to refresh the view (with wdDoModifyView?), but am not sure how to do so.

Many thanks in advance! ( <b>Points promised for helpful answers!</b> )

faB

PS. Would it be better pratice to put the 2nd group in a new view and call the navigation plug in the onActionCopyLine()?

Message was edited by: faB

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Use data binding instead of copying.

Bind the "value"-property of the InputField to the same context attribute as the table column editor and it automatically gets the value in the selected row.

Armin

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Armin,

Good idea, but I don't think your suggestion is possible in my case, because some of the input fields have extended input help and it's not possible bind the inputfields to a model context attribute. I have to have a separate field and do a copy at runtime.

(or so was determinded in this thread: )

faB

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi faB

I tried this out and worked perfectly fine for me. I used code similar to what you have tried out. I can only assume that you have some code in your wdDoModifyView that is prohibhting this from happening. Comment everything else out and try only this.

wdContext.currentContextElement().setField(wdContext.currentXxxElement().getField());

Regards

Pran

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Pran,

I think I am calling the wdDoModifyView incorrectly from the eventhandler.

How are you calling it?

faB

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dont call it all. It is automatically called

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

ok, half way there.

upon initial loading the the view, the values are copied (from the (default) 1st line of the table)

but I have implemented a "Copy Line" button that should copy the selected line to the input fields. the view is not being refreshed with the new values for the input field. any ideas?

faB

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi faB

Strange....Have you attached the "Copy Line" button to action . The action should contain the line of code shown above. Inspite of this even if you face problems I suspect there is some code somewhere that is inhibhting it .. probably in wdDoModifyView

Regards

Pran

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hey there!

This is working now. The fields are being copyied during the wdDoModifyView.

Thanks,

faB

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

...which probably is the wrong place for modifying the context.

Armin