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

[Alan Lord]

Sorry for all the noise on this but this possible source of the true value:

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

Doesn't actually exist on a picklist field which hasn't been edited :-(

Al


On 26/01/17 10:48, Alan Lord wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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