RE: Saving checkbox values in editable grid

Chris — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:46:13 GMT

Hi, the main issue here is that the values such as recordname: {"78","79"} are actually being treated as a single value in some situations. While the checkboxes will display the options properly, if you run a count() over the recordname, the result is 1.

Without digging deep into the underlying datasubset structure as far as nested lists, etc, here is an option to save the values using a local!selections variable. This assumes the record ID/Names are unique row by row (e.g., "79" does not appear in more than one row). The idea is to save all selections into one variable, then when exiting the form we can apply these back into your data set - or do whatever else you need for processing.

Feel free to expand on your use case from here.

a!localVariables(
  local!data: {
    {
      record: "21041001", 
      nbr: "5DM874,C217668", 
      recordname: {"test1", "test2"},
      recordIds: {"75", "77"}, 
      reportid: {}, 
      selectedrecords: null, 
      selectedreports: {}, 
      amount: 7.0,
      recordamount: {15, 15}, 
      reportamount: {}, 
      trecordId: 76
    },
    {
      record: "21041100", 
      nbr: "5DM874,C217668", 
      recordname: {"test3", "test4"},
      recordIds: {"78", "79"}, 
      reportid: {}, 
      selectedrecords: {}, 
      selectedreports: {}, 
      amount: 7.0,
      recordamount: {15, 15}, 
      reportamount: {}, 
      trecordId: 88
    }
  },
  local!selections,
  a!forEach(
    items: local!data,
    expression: a!localVariables(
      local!options: split(fv!item.recordname,"; "),
      a!checkboxField(
        choiceLabels: local!options,
        choiceValues: local!options,
        value: if(
          rule!APN_isEmpty(local!selections),
          null,
          intersection(local!options,local!selections)
        ),
        saveInto: {
          a!save(local!selections,reject(rule!APN_isEmpty,union(local!selections,save!value)))
        },
        choiceLayout: "COMPACT"
      )
    )
  )
)