On Mar 29, 2012, at 4:27 PM, David Holt wrote:

> 
> On 2012-03-29, at 4:23 PM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
> 
>> More than one way to skin a cat here.  I'd probably just set up a wizard.
>> 
>> step 1, choose a practice with an ERD2WEditToOneRelationship that filters 
>> the list to only practices with billables that have no invoice.
>> step 2, choose billables form a filtered list for that practice with an 
>> ERD2WEditToManyRelationship component.
> 
> Can you use information entered in Step one to inform step two?

Sure. Just set the restrictedChoiceKey to resolve to a method on the EO.  
Something like object.billablesForCurrentPracticeWithoutInvoice.  Then use the 
practice set in step one to filter the list for step 2.

> 
>> step 3, edit invoice date
>> validate and save accordingly
>> 
>> Ramsey
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Paul Hoadley wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Ramsey,
>>> 
>>> On 30/03/2012, at 2:21 AM, Ramsey Gurley wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 2:31 AM, Paul Hoadley wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Anyway, the subject above is probably a misnomer: I'm not trying to 
>>>>> create particularly complex objects, but I am trying to do something 
>>>>> outside CRUD, which is pretty much all I've ever done with D2W before.  
>>>>> In the model, a Billable object has an optional to-one relationship to 
>>>>> Invoice.  When I create a Billable, it initially has no related Invoice.  
>>>>> Later I will create an Invoice for a client, and collect together some 
>>>>> set of Billables, and the relationship is created at that time.  And 
>>>>> that's the bit I need a pattern for: Invoice creation.  Billable also has 
>>>>> a mandatory relationship to Practice (i.e., a client), and a startTime 
>>>>> timestamp.  When I go to create an Invoice, I'd give the Invoice a date 
>>>>> and select a Practice, and then I want to add, say, all of the Billables 
>>>>> that (a) belong to no other Invoice, (b) point to the same Practice, and 
>>>>> (c) have a startTime that falls before the new Invoice.date.
>>>> 
>>>> Well, you can just set the practice, the invoice date, and then save 
>>>> changes. In Invoice.willInsert() fetch the billables and add them to the 
>>>> relationship just before the save takes place. :-)  Or is that too 
>>>> automatic?
>>> 
>>> It's more automatic than I was thinking, but it sounds alright.  Say if I 
>>> wanted to review the list of Billables before saving, though, what would 
>>> you do then?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Paul Hoadley
>>> http://logicsquad.net/
>>> 
>>> 
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