Re: [Gnue-dev] many problems with forms.

[Derek Neighbors]

It is really critical that bugs be submitted to
address@hidden (where productname is the name of
the product (ex: address@hidden))  There are now so
many developers, feature requests and bug submittal's it is too hard to
address via email.  I have gone ahead and submitted bugs for you... I
will include the ticket numbers below so you can follow along at home.
;)

> 1. Absolutely no way we can refresh the list of values
> in a dropdown

Known bug, was never filed though, only discussed how to fix it.  Now
assigned as Ticket #78.

> 2. In India we use the date format dd/mm/yy. If we
> change the format in
> GFDisplayHandler.py to "%d/%m/%y" at 2 places, we
> still need to type in mm/dd/yy
> format after which on focus out, the format changes to
> dd/mm/yy. How do we
> ensure that it accepts the dd/mm/yy format while
> typing. Can this be taken from
> the locale?

I am not sure on this, I know we have 'datemasks'.  I am filing as a
bug. Ticket #79.
 
> 3. On pressing tab or on pressing a button, focus does
> not reach the button but
> remains on the entry itself.

Bug Number #80.

> 4. How to specify conditions in datasources? Common
> seems to have support for
> conditions. It seems possible to use that
> functionality in triggers. Is there
> any documentation on the syntax. Why not the same in
> the datasource tag?

The datasource tag does support conditions, they do work in reports as I
have a working report against DCL that uses them.  I am not sure the
location of the documentation I would try common/docs/.  If you find a
specific bug with conditions please file it or post more questions here.

> 5. How long before we can get conditions and triggers
> in reports? How
> difficult/easy (number of days) to hack reports for
> the functionality.

See above that it is already supported in Reports.  An example is here:
http://gnuenterprise.org/~dneighbo/sr/service_requests.grd

Specifically....

   <datasource database="dcl" name="dtswo" table="workorders">
     <condition>
       <eq>
         <cfield name="jcn" />
         <cparam name="sr_range" />
       </eq>
     </condition>
   </datasource> 

> 6. Any developer docs?

In all the tools there is a directory called docs/ you can usually find
goodies in there, docs, patches and the likes are always greatly
appreciated. :)

Derek Neighbors
GNU Enteprise