On Wednesday 18 March 2009 10:43:12 am Frank Cazabon wrote: > Hi Ed, > > I thought I had answered this, but guess I didn't cause I'm not seeing > it in GMail's sent box. > > Anyhow, what I do is run the form, it gets displayed with a blank record > and the dropdown showing the "please select a client" text. Without > touching anything on the screen, I press the Save button. The record > counter increments and the "invalid" record apparently gets added with > the invalid client. I see below that you said it gets called for every > *changed* record. In this case shouldn't it get called? Or is a new > record not considered "changed"?
Correct. The only way I have gotten this work is to set Default value for the data field in the DropdownList. This way the value is set and the form sees the record as having changed and saves the record. > > The validateRecord() was copied and pasted from the web page directly > into the correct bizobj file. > > Ed Leafe wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: > >> just had a few minutes to look at the changes over the weekend and > >> everything looks OK now. Just one question. You added in a > >> validateRecord method (is that what you call them in Python/Dabo?) but > >> didn't see where you call it from so assumed the framework > >> automatically > >> called it, but that's not happening. Do I need to put in a manual > >> call > >> in the "presave" (or whatever it's called) method? > > > > 'validateRecord()' is automatically called for every changed record > > as part of the pre-save routine. It is called after 'beforeSave()' but > > before the call to write your changes to the database. > > > > Are you sure you created that method in the bizobj, and spelled it > > correctly? Is the data in the record definitely modified? > > > > > > -- Ed Leafe > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
