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Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

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    Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

    Hello all,

    It seems like this should be a fairly straight-forward process, however I have been unable to find a solution.

    In short, I have a list control that lists all company items ready to "add" to purchase order.

    I'm trying to have a functionality for a user to click all the items that they want to use to "build" a purchase order. I have a SQL table built which would house all the item details for a given PO.

    I was hoping to simply click all the desired items, then use a button that would fire a list control action that would add all selected items to my repeating section to list all the selected items. I'm currently using the action - "Populate controls with data from a current row in list", which works, however it only adds one row at a time, as stated in the function. Is there one that would populate data from all "selected" rows?

    Any ideas? I'm open to any suggestion. I basically want the functionality to select multiple and click a button to send all selected items to another table...

    Thank you in advance for your help.

    -Casey

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    Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

    You could do this a number of ways depending on how complex you wanted to get..

    Since you are utilizing the repeating section and populating the controls I'm assuming from the OnSelect event of the list, you need to access the repeating section and list arrays to get it working like that.. Are you dead set on using a list control?

    Have you considered using the repeating section (details table) and doing a dropdown on say... the order item field so that users are able to select order items from a dropdown and add as many order items as they'd like to?.. Ideally, when the order item is selected, if you have any additional fields that need to be saved to details table, you can do a fill-in based on order item selection..

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      #3
      Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

      Hello Riley,

      Right, I have examined different ways and thought of doing a drop-down menu for each line of the repeating section, however just thought from a user experience standpoint might be most useful to see all the items listed in one clean list and just click away on the items they want to order, as opposed to going to each line and scrolling down to each. Just seemed like more clicks. Also my item lookup table which is about 10k items sometimes take longer in drop-down than a list does....

      I would also like to just know how to insert multiple records into a table. THis has been my only block wall on thinking of how to do certain things. Being able to update records one at a time is a breeze, but when it comes to inserting a bulk batch of records I have not found a simple way to do.

      In the meantime, can you elaborate on using "list arrays"? I have yet to use this functionality.

      Thanks again, Casey

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        #4
        Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

        Hi Casey..

        I'm following up on this request as I have a similar concept I need to implement and it seems as if it is a common enough scenario that I would need to implement the concept over and over.

        In my particular case, I have a list of users (upwards of 800) and a list of applications (upwards of 200). I'd like to present a screen showing a selected application and then have two lists.

        One list would contain all the users that currently have access to the selected application
        The second list would be for all other users who don't have access

        The idea would be to move items between lists so that user access could be removed as well as moving unassigned users into the access list.
        I've gotten as far as setting up the two lists with 4 buttons (>, >>, <, <<) and the queries work so that they show current access users and the remaining users.

        My question is, once the lists are completed to a users satisfcation, how do you go about saving the data.

        The underlying database is SQL Server and we are talking about 3 tables (RegisteredUsers, Applications, and a cross table RegisteredUsersXApplications).
        The cross table has 3 fields, an auto increment primary key, a foreign key to RegisteredUsers and a foreign key to Applications)

        Thanks,
        Jeremy

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          #5
          Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

          The List control has a few properties that can be used to determine which rows are selected: .selection, .selectionKey, .selectionData, and value. selectionData, for example, is an Array of Objects, 1 for each row selected, carrying full data on each selected row.

          Code:
          var lObj = {dialog.Object}.getControl('list1');
          var rowData = lObj.selectionData;
          You'd then loop through rowData doing whatever you need. Or pass the data back to the server where you'd loop through and create your insert statement.

          SQL has the capability of inserting multiple rows.

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            #6
            Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

            Casey/Jeremy, Did either of you get this to work? I have a similar need and struggling to get it to work. Thanks.

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              Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

              Bump

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                Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                I did server side processing.

                On the javascript click event I added some code to call a server side function "SaveListData"
                1_SubmitButton Click Event.jpg

                The the "SaveListData" has a built in e._listData that contains the data.
                I then found a post on how to handle the list data server side.
                2_SaveListData.jpg

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                  #9
                  Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                  Jeremy - thanks so much for providing this - can you, by any chance, recall the post you found for handling the list data server side?

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                    #10
                    Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                    Sorry, after looking further it was actually a video series.
                    If you access the Video Finder from within Alpha by going to the Help Menu and selecting "Video Finder" there is a 6 part series that contains "everything" I know about lists. It was invaluable.
                    Once the video finder opens, enter "UXL_V12--21" in the Filter.

                    2016-09-12_14-26-12.jpg

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                      #11
                      Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                      Thanks so much Jeremy. That's my new favorite Alpha video series! LOTS of information.

                      One question: any idea how to move data from list A to list B WITHOUT removing it from list A? The list control action, "Move selected rows from one List to another List" is nice, but I don't want to remove the data from List A.

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                        Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                        Hey Scott, after you move your selected record, you could always refresh the original list, although that involves an additional callback.

                        Alternatively, it may be cleaner to just use the appendRows method and simply add a new row to your second list.

                        Here is an example using sample data. Just add this code to the onClick event of the first list.

                        Code:
                        var fn = this.selectionData[0].Firstname;
                        var ln = this.selectionData[0].Lastname;
                        var ci = this.selectionData[0].City;
                        
                        var listObj = {dialog.object}.getControl('LSTTEST2');
                        var _d = [{Firstname: fn, Lastname: ln, City: ci}]
                        listObj.appendRows(_d);
                        Nate Mitchell PMP

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                          #13
                          Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                          Nate, thank you so much for your note and providing the sample code. It works exactly how you describe. Much appreciated.

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                            Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                            A working UX component with a list control that saves multiple selected rows to a north winds table, or sql table in general with an accompanying video would be very helpful. UXL_V12-21 touches on handling this data, but stops short of doing something useful with the submitted data like saving the entire list, or saving selected rows to a table. Seems this would be the most common use for the submitted data.

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                              #15
                              Re: Use multi-select in list control to insert selected records to a UX bound table

                              Thanks for this thread. I needed to get an array of primary keys for selected records in a List. I set my List to return Primary Key and used...

                              var lObj = {dialog.Object}.getControl('list1');
                              var rowData = lObj.selectionKey;

                              ...which returned an array such as ",0,1,4,2" which is in the order that the records were selected. Oddly it has a comma in the front which I stripped off. I then could use the array in a Callback to do back-end processing.

                              But David - how in the world did you know about these List properties? The term ".selectionKey" is not in the documentation, release notes or in-line help.
                              Steve Wood
                              See my profile on IADN

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