Reg on using beforeShowForm

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:07:42 +0300

I am using version 3.7; my code used to work in version 3.4 and I cannot figure out what has changed to make it not work now.

THe problem is in Form Editing; when the form to add a record is created I use beforeShowForm to set default values on the fields. I have an alert in the beforeShowForm event so I know it is firing, but none of the default values are set correctly when the form appears.

So either the commands I use are no longer the right ones, or something is changing them afterwards. A snippet from my code shows here:

    beforeShowForm : function (formid) {
        alert("in beforeShowForm") ;
        $("#effective",formid).val("2010/07/24");
        $("#status",formid).val("Active");
        $("#transaction",formid).val("Salary Change");
        $("#reason",formid).val("");
        $("#position",formid).val("Vice President");
        $("#empgroup",formid).val("Professional");

Anyone see what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

Reg

Later... One of the benefits of turning your problem over to someone else to consider and suggest fixes for is that it relieves the stress and frees your mind to figure out the problem for yourself. The disadvantage is that now your inability to grasp the concepts is made embarrassingly public.

I now relaize (I think I am correct) that this is probably part of the new api issue, but I am unable to find anything specifically related to setting the value of a form field like this in the discussion (or examples) of the new api.

Has anyone figured this out? Can anyone provide an example of the correct syntax?

THanks

Reg

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