Hello, I am building a SAIL Form (in Appian 7.6) that uses multiple i

thanosm over 9 years ago

Hello,

I am building a SAIL Form (in Appian 7.6) that uses multiple interfaces in the form of a Wizard.

One of these interfaces is responsible for entering and handling payment transaction information with amounts.
All that transaction information is saved into its respective CDT (which is a Rule Input into this interface).

In this form i have a set of fields that handle the amount, the currency rate and the local equivalent amount.
When this SAIL interface is loaded it retrieves all necessary currency information from the database and it uses that information to calculate the local equivalent amount (which is disabled) and display it.

My problem is in use cases where the user does not complete his work at that moment in time and decides to complete it another day, where the currency rates have changed and even though i am able to use that information to calculate the new local equivalent amount and display it i am not able to save it into the res...

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0 thanosm over 9 years ago

...pective field in the CDT because the user does not interact at all with that field.

How can this be overcome?
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0 Rahul Gundu over 9 years ago

Hi thanosm,
Use " Refresh default values every time the task form is viewed" in others tab of user input task. Might this will resolve your issue.
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0 Rahul Gundu over 9 years ago

The previous suggestion used to load refreshed values of process variables to form, in this case,user has to fill the data again.
Other suggestion is,
If you are calculating the "equivalent amount" in a rule and storing that value in to a local variable and displaying in disabled component. In this case, use a sail component which user will interact to submit the form. Say "Submit" button, in saveinto of submit button store the local value(equivalent amount) to
respected cdt field. This will solve the issue.
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0 Chris over 9 years ago

As rahulg mentions, we have been able to accomplish this by using additional a!save() calls inside the submit button saveInto parameter, which calculates current values at submit time.
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0 thanosm over 9 years ago

Thank you all for the help.

I have moved the save of the fields whose values are calculated (and not entered by the user) to the final Submit button for SAIL Wirard interface.
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