I have a SAIL form with a dropdown field which works fine except when a value is

smcgill over 8 years ago

I have a SAIL form with a dropdown field which works fine except when a value is defaulted in and the user then selects the placeholder. As the placeholder doesn't have an index position it causes an "ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException" on the save.
I have tried various configurations with the save but have been unable to come up with one that works :

....
a!dropdownFieldByIndex(
label: "Member supplier",
instructions: "Value saved: " & ri!newMemberDetails.supplier,
choiceLabels: local!supplierList.supplier,
placeholderLabel: "--- Select a New Member ---",
value: if(
rule!APN_isBlank(ri!newMemberDetails.supplier),
{},
whereContains(ri!newMemberDetails.supplier, local!supplierList.supplier)
),
...

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0 smcgill over 8 years ago

... saveInto: {
a!save(ri!newMemberDetails.supplier, local!supplierList.supplier[save!value]),
a!save(ri!newMemberDetails.supplierId, local!supplierList.supplierId[save!value]),
a!save(ri!newMemberDetails.supplierListMemberID, local!supplierList.supplierListMemberID[save!value]),
a!save(ri!newMemberDetails.postcodeArea,ri!postcodeArea ),
a!save(ri!newMemberDetails.suppliertype, "Member")
}, ....

Thanks in advance
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0 Conor Cahill
Certified Lead Developer
over 8 years ago

so you can make the placeholder label a conditional:
placeholderLabel: if(rule!APN_isBlank(ri!newMemberDetails.supplier),"","--- Select a New Member ---")

This will get rid of the placeholderLabel once there is a value for the dropdown.
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0 Conor Cahill
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over 8 years ago

err, switch the 2nd and 3rd arguments of the if statement.
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0 Tim
Certified Lead Developer
over 8 years ago

I think your saves will be failing because save!value won't contain a valid index, switch your saves to either test save!value for null or use the index() function e.g.
a!save(ri!newMemberDetails.supplier, index(local!supplierList.supplier, save!value, {}))
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0 smcgill over 8 years ago

Hi conorc, thanks for the suggestion, I had tried that but it didn't appear to make any difference to the problem.
Hi Tim, I did try using the APN_isBlank but I haven't tried the index method. I'll give that a go next.
Thank you both
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0 smcgill over 8 years ago

Thank you the index suggestion works perfectly
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