[Vtigercrm-developers] Q. on vt7 Detail/Summary view picklists

[Alan Lord]

Just to follow up with some more info, the markup linked to below shows 
the state of the DOM _after_ you have changed a picklist value in Detail 
View.

IMHO this really is not very well implemented.

Bits of that DOM change when you change a picklist option but the key 
part of the DOM - which would be the ideal bit to read data from - 
doesn't :-(

The line below shows the value *after* I have changed the picklist from 
512 to 256.

> <input class="fieldBasicData" data-name="lsfwd_rate" data-type="picklist" data-displayvalue="512" data-value="512" type="hidden">

On screen it now says 256. In the database the field value has been 
saved as 256. And in the horrendously-hard-to-grab select2-chosen span 
tag referred to earlier it reads (Note: this is the "display value" not 
the true value - if this was a translated text string it would not be 
usable):

> <span class="select2-chosen" id="select2-chosen-1">256</span>

In the original <select><options...> the option value 512 is still set 
as "selected":

> <option value="512" selected="">512</option>

When in fact, I have already clicked the pencil icon, changed the value 
to 256 and clicked the tick to save it.

This is *really* hard to deal with...

Al

On 26/01/17 10:32, Alan Lord wrote:
> To answer my own question, No. There isn't any write facilities to the
> uimeta var.
>
> I have decided to approach my task in a different direction instead...
>
> But I am still really struggling with the implementation of fields in
> vtiger 7...
>
> Please see the attached snippet of a picklist field in Detail View:
>
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/23868473/
>
> Please can a vtiger dev explain the correct way to read the real value
> of this field (Not the display value)?
>
> The only place I can see it is inside this span
>
>> <span class="select2-chosen" id="select2-chosen-1">512</span>
>
> But accessing it seems to be overly complex in terms of the amount of
> DOM tree one has to traverse to get to it.