Anil,
The pattern I've had in mind for this that works for most "standard"
patterned screens in OFBiz is that if you enter an ID that exists it
will show you the info for it. If that isn't what you intended, you
can click on the "Create New Xxxxx" button that should always be just
above the form, or the user can just hit the back button.
For large entities this is admittedly a pain because either the user
doesn't think of hitting the back button, or the browser does
something dumb and doesn't remember their info, and then they have to
re-enter all of the data. We could add another link/button in this
case to user the information they entered, ie purely from the
parameters Map, and populate a new create form.
-David
On Dec 19, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Anil Patel wrote:
Sorry to bother everybody again, But this Thread somehow got
deviated from
main subject. The problem I have posted in this email is
encountered in Most
of the CRUD Forms in Ofbiz. Please share if somebody can think of
Ideas on
workaround this problem.
Regards
Anil Patel
On 12/18/06, Anil Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
We have forms that handle create/update entity data. One of the
common
problems user run into is, In the Create New Form (e.g New
FixedAsset)
user enters value in Id field. There is possibility that the value
entered
may already exist in database. In such situations, Form returns
with error
message, But also Opens existing entity in Edit/Update mode in the
form.
This confuses user.
Most of these create/update form directly post to CRUD services.
Is it OK
if I added a Simple Method event handler that took the request
call and
forwarded to CRUD service and then on return of service check if
there is
error, In case of error set the value of primary key field to
nothing so the
create/update form will not be able to read existing entity to
open it in
Edit mode.
If this is Ok to do, Should I add Event handler simple methods in
existing
services xml files (e.g FixedAssetServices.xml) Or should I create
a new
file that will have such event handler simple methods.
If I can get Feedback on this email it will be easy to prepare a
patch to
fix http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-547.
Regards
Anil Patel
