I am working on my first form which itself is using dynamic windows.
The window has approx. 13 sections each in its own groupbox. 4 sections will be common to all windows e.g. user and creation details.
Of the remaining 9 windows for this particular request one is the master section which is always displayed and contains a trigger attribute to determine which one of the remaining sections should be shown. These 8 mutually exclusive sections contain approx. 30 fields.
Problems I have with a single window is
- keeping track of 1000's of attributes on one window
- what performance impact is there of dynamically setting properties on 1000's of fields.
- harping back to my original stance on database bloat having a single window will make it impossible to re-use objects for example NI number could be used on many different requests but if they are all on the one dynamic form each request would have to have its own NI number object because it will be impossible to keep the field position on the window in the same place for different requests
Early days yet but I have a trigger on the always displayed section window to hide or display the relevant fields using a calculation with this construct
import System
static def GetAttributeValue(Request):
Hide = false
Mustfill = true
Value = ""
if Request._LGSSTCETypes._Type != null and Request._LGSSTCETypes._Type == "Change Working Hours or Weeks":
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSNewSubmission, {0});"
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSHoursPerWeek, {0});"
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSMinutesPerWeek, {0});"
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSWeeksPerYear, {0});"
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSPercentage, {0});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSNewSubmission, {1});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSHoursPerWeek, {1});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSMinutesPerWeek, {1});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSWeeksPerYear, {1});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSPercentage, {1});"
Value = String.Format(Value,Hide,Mustfill)
return Value
elif Request._LGSSTCETypes._Type != null and Request._LGSSTCETypes._Type == "Change Location":
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSNewLocation, {0});"
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSRelocateEndDate, {0});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSNewLocation, {1});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSRelocateEndDate, {1});"
Value = String.Format(Value,Hide,Mustfill)
return Value
elif Request._LGSSTCETypes._Type != null and Request._LGSSTCETypes._Type == "section x selected":
Value += ":SetHidden(_sectionxfieldy, {0});"
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSNewLocation, {1});"
repeat elif for all sections
else:
Hide = true
Mustfill = false
Value += ":SetHidden(_LGSSNewSubmission, {0});"
repeat for all fields
Value += ":SetMandatory(_LGSSHoursPerWeek, {1});"
repeat for all fields
Value = String.Format(Value,Hide,Mustfill)
return Value
