I have an array of questions that I want to present to a user. For each questio

helmuta over 9 years ago

I have an array of questions that I want to present to a user. For each question I want the user to give an answer from a dropdownField. I want to present all of the questions with a dropdown field next to each question. I am trying to do this in a gridLayout and I am only getting one item back. Here is a sample of the code.

a!gridLayout(
label: "",
headerCells: {
a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Question"),
a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Grade")
},
columnConfigs: {
a!gridLayoutColumnConfig(width: "DISTRIBUTE"),
a!gridLayoutColumnConfig(width: "NARROW")
},
rows: {
a!gridRowLayout(
contents:{
a!textField(
value: index(local!datasubset.data,"question",{})
),
a!dropdownField(
label:"Grade",
required: true(),
...

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0 helmuta over 9 years ago

... choiceLabels: cons!VM_GRADES,
choiceValues: cons!VM_GRADES,
placeholderLabel: "Grade",
value: local!grade,
saveInto: local!grade
)
}
)

I know I should be able to iterate through the list of questions and save off a grade for each question but I can not find a way of doing this in SAIL.

Any help would be appreciated.
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0 Tim
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over 9 years ago

You need to put your a!gridRowLayout() in a sub-rule and then use a!applyComponents() to generate a row for each item in your data array. By passing in the index position to the sub-rule you can then display the relative value and saveInto attributes. Check out the SAIL Recipes on the help pages for examples of this.
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0 helmuta over 9 years ago

wow, I thought I would be able to some how do it inline. Thank you!
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0 Tim
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over 9 years ago

You can continue to repeat your a!gridRowLayout() within your rows:{} attribute for a hard-coded version - literally put a comma at the end and copy+paste another row in. I guess it depends on how many questions you have and if it's going to grow/change?
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0 nileshr over 9 years ago

Hi helmuta,
There is no saveInto in the text field. Probably that's why you are getting only one value back.
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