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Sunday, April 22, 2012PrintSubscribe
Collecting Action Parameters in Modal Forms

Application business logic may require a custom form to collect action input parameters from the end users.

Code On Time web applications have built-in support for modal action confirmation forms.

The screen shot of the master/detail page Suppliers shows the custom action Change Supplier selected in the context menu of the detail view.

A master/detail page 'Suppliers' with the context menu activated in the detail data row

A custom modal parameter form is displayed when the action is selected.

A custom modal form allows collecting action input parameters from application end users

Tuesday, April 17, 2012PrintSubscribe
Configuring Data View Selection Mode

The selection mode of data rows on all pages of your application can be controlled in the Project Wizard settings.

You can also configure the selection mode for the specific data views.

Create a Northwind sample and activate the project Designer.

Select Employees / container1 / view1 (Employees, grid1) node on the Pages tab in the Project Explorer.

Data view selected in the Project Explorer

Change Selection Mode property and click OK button to save the changes.

Data view 'Selection Mode' property in Project Designer

Click Browse on the Project Designer toolbar to view the application.

Employees data view with the Selection Mode set to Single.

Employees data view with the 'Selection Mode' set to 'Single'.

Employees data view with the Selection Mode set to Multiple.

Employees data view with the 'Selection Mode' set to 'Multiple'.

The standard action Delete supports the Multiple selection mode. Multiple selection also works with batch editing of records.

You can create custom business rules or an SQL action to implement business logic applicable to multiple selected data rows.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012PrintSubscribe
Configuring Row Selection Mode for the Entire Application

The default configuration of a Code On Time web application is to allow a selection of a single data row on all pages. The screen shot below demonstrates a single row of Suppliers selected in the Northwind sample.

Data row 'Selection Mode' is set to 'Single' in the data view of suppliers in a Code On Time web application

You can enable a multiple row selection on all application pages as follows.

Select the project name on the start page of the application generator and choose Settings.

Select Features in the menu of settings. Activate feature group Grid Properties.

Toggle “on” the option Enable multiple selection in all grid views and click Finish button.

Enabling multiple row selection in all data views on a Code on Time web application

Select Refresh option to refresh the project settings. Click Refresh button without selecting any data controllers.

Press Generate to have the application reconfigured with the new feature. The default web browser will display the application.

Now you can select multiple data rows in all application data views presenting lists of records.

Multiple row selection mode enabled in a data view of a web app created with Code On Time web application generator

Note that only intrinsic Delete action and batch update support multiple row selection.

You can create custom business rules or an SQL action to implement business logic applicable to multiple selected data rows.

You can also enable multiple row selection on individual page data views.