5 Replies Latest reply: Jan 14, 2013 11:28 AM by Adam Cook RSS

    Customer submitted web app item - add and edit a weighting

    mark_barrett Community Member
    mark_barrett Jun 20, 2012 6:45 PM

      Hi Guys

       

      Does anyone know if this is possible. We have customer submitted web app in a secure zone. We want to give the customer the ability to add weighting to the item as they add or edit - the weighting would be an input text box.

       

      I see there is a {tag_weight} for the list and detailed view of the web app. Have tried that item name in the edit and add forms but with no luck. Anyone have the answer?

       

      Thanks

       

      Mark

        • 1. Re: Customer submitted web app item - add and edit a weighting
          mario_gudelj CommunityMVP
          mario_gudelj Jun 20, 2012 6:57 PM (in response to mark_barrett)

          Hi Mark,

           

          There's no way to populate the Weighting field from the frontend. But why would you want to allow customers to set this value? What do you want to achieve with that field?

           

          Cheers,

           

          -mario

          • 2. Re: Customer submitted web app item - add and edit a weighting
            Adam Cook Community Member
            Adam Cook Dec 17, 2012 3:06 PM (in response to mario_gudelj)

            I, for one, one like to have certain items appear at the top of the list based on whether or not a certain checkbox is checked.

            I was planning on having js set the weighting to 1 if the checkbox was checked, and clear the weighting if it wasn't checked.

             

            Unfortunately, the front-end isn't just for customers. The admin can be a cumbersome place to manage a large number of web app items. Front-end solutions can make this a much more pleasant experience for the client.

            • 3. Re: Customer submitted web app item - add and edit a weighting
              psteil
              psteil Jan 14, 2013 3:38 AM (in response to mario_gudelj)

              Mario,

               

              I am assuming you are an Adobe employee?  Your profile doesn't make that obvious, but from some of the answers you have provided to others it does sound like you are...

               

              Anyway, we have the same issue right now with a great new webapp we created for a client... we built a custom HTML form for them to enter in their data - all the items show up in date order just fine... but if a record has to be added later that does not follow the correct date format, then the item doesn't show up properly in the list. 

               

              We need to be able to set the weighting via JS on the form (we would just set it to the date in YYYYMMDD order so that all records are properly displayed in date order...

               

              If there is another way to achieve this, great... but if not, we need an enhancement to BC to do this... and if there are any other web app fields that haven't been exposed for the custom HTML forms, those need to be exposed also... not sure why they all wouldn't have been from the get go...

              • 4. Re: Customer submitted web app item - add and edit a weighting
                Liam Dilley CommunityMVP
                Liam Dilley Jan 14, 2013 11:25 AM (in response to psteil)

                Hi there,

                Mario was one of the most experience BC memebers of staff heading up support. Mario only recently left BC for bigger and better things.

                I am not sure what posts you refering to but if you look at his postings you can see he has helped a LOT of people and also written some great guides in the guides section.

                 

                New web app engine is being worked on for early 2013 release which has a massive amount of changes. Like complete rebuild so massive improvements are on the cards soon.

                At the moment you can not and you have to do JS sollutions with custom fields to do sorting if they are editable.

                • 5. Re: Customer submitted web app item - add and edit a weighting
                  Adam Cook Community Member
                  Adam Cook Jan 14, 2013 11:28 AM (in response to Liam Dilley)

                  I had no idea Mario left! Too bad for us. Hopefully good for him.