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Re: Adding Username to a field

nukkumatti — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:32:13 GMT

Hi again,
here may be a small explanation.

With the first "for" statement you can create new repeating sections.
Put a repeating section (name Result for top node and Results for repeating node) to your form and add one textbox control to it.
Put a button to your form and copy the code (after conversion though) into your onClick event of the Button.
Then change yourUserName-ApprovalCount to the number 4 within your the for statement.
Preview your form and click the button, then it should actually generate 3 additional section including a textbox control. Each of this repeating section has an index or lets call it position starting from 1 i think.

The second "for" statment now is used to fill data into the textbox control within your repeating section.
So this means nothing more then iterating through your sections.

thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:Result/my:Results[" + j + "]/my:nameOfTextBoxControlWithinYourSection")

The "j" is actually the position or index of your repeating section so if this value is 3 for example you will wirte a value into the textbox control of your third section.

Does this help you understanding it a bit better ?

Re: Adding Username to a field

stumbler — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:02:46 GMT

Thanks for the reply,
but I will need some time to understand your suggestion and do the conversion.
Anyhow, I have a whole weekend ahead to figure out what is all about.

Re: Adding Username to a field

nukkumatti — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:55:07 GMT

Hi,

you can actually create new repeating tables dynamically (so implement the "Insert Item" function:
Below is the code example, but take care it's in C# so you have to convert it to your JScript:

Use this to create a new repeating section (Result is the name of the repeating section)


//generate as many sections as you need approvals
for(int i = 1; i < yourUserName/ApprovalCount; i++)
			{
//create as many repeating sections as you have approvers
				string myRepeat	= thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:Result/my:Results").xml;
				IXMLDOMDocument oXml = thisXDocument.CreateDOM();
				oXml.async = false;
				oXml.loadXML(myRepeat);
				IXMLDOMNode parentNode = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:Result");
				parentNode.appendChild(oXml.documentElement);
			}

Now you just need to fill the controls within you repeating sections:


for(int j = 1; j <= yourUserName/ApprovalCount; j++)
{
thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:Result/my:Results[" + j + "]/my:YourApprovalTextBoxWithinYourRepeatingSection").text= thisXDocument.Dom.SelectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:YourApproverNameTextBox").text;
}

Does it make any sense to you in your case ?

Adding Username to a field

stumbler — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:06:12 GMT

Hello,

I made up an approval form that gets the username from the environment to put in the approriate field.
But sometimes a request needs 2 approvals, so I put the approvals in a repeating table.
But now, only the first record recieves the correct info. the second one always stays blank. I suppose it has to see with the use of current() but I would appriciate some help on this, since I don't know how to use it in this matter

Here is the code I use:

function msoxd__LOCALSALES_APPROVALS_EmployeeID_attr::OnAfterChange(eventObj)
{
//Create a WScript.Network object, which provides access to the user data
var objNetwork = new ActiveXObject("WScript.network");
var ApprName =objNetwork.UserName;
var RealApprover = XDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/dfs:myFields/dfs:dataFields/d:LOCALSALES/d:LOCALSALES_APPROVALS/@LoginID")
RealApprover.text = ApprName

if (eventObj.IsUndoRedo)
{
// An undo or redo operation has occurred and the DOM is read-only.
return;
}
}

Kind Regards