Application Studio TransView not available / undefined fields

[JKeith (Jeremy Keith)]

Good morning,

I’ve been fighting with Application Studio in 2023.1 and trying to pass a parameter to a BAQ, I found a few good posts on here, but I’m still missing something.

I’ve bound my form field to TransView.PartFilter but every time I try to reference it I’m getting undefined.

I did have to create a dataview called TransView and defined a PartFilter variable, so I must be missing something?

I set up a simple test to just alert the value {TransView.PartFilter} same as what I bound the field to, and it’s still coming up undefined.

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

Is this a custom dashboard?

If you had to manually add TransView… you may also need to initiate it in an form_onload type event.

Post below for reference. You can look up stock events on stock forms for details on how to do it. I think its just a row-update to jump start the dataview.

Create a DataView. Is this OK to do?

I have a related question… do you need to “initialize” custom dataviews such as this? Actually… here’s an example… I started building a Dashboard from scratch. I had to add in a TransView dataview. On most “stock” forms, I see events that initialize the TransView. When is this necessary?

Also, in your message… try: "{TransView.PartFilter}"

Its a string… so you may need quotes around it.

[klincecum (Kevin Lincecum)]

Application Studio passing Parameters to BAQ

The parameter value should have curly braces: {TransView.PartNum}. What screen is this in? Is this native (I assumed it was)? If not, you will need to create the initialize event. Create an event that fires after Form_onLoad and use a row-update to set TransView.PartNum to "".

[JKeith (Jeremy Keith)]

I added the Form_onLoad but I’m still getting the same result

[JKeith (Jeremy Keith)]

Weird, I’m also noticing my columns are not “saving” in the TransView dataview.

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

Sorry, I’ve been in and out of meetings.

Can you see your onLoad event firing in debugger? Does the dataview get populated with your “Test” value?

[JKeith (Jeremy Keith)]

I don’t see it getting fired which is also strange.

[JKeith (Jeremy Keith)]

I take it back, I do see tables getting initiated … I think

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

In debugger, in console, turn on debugging… then type: epDebug.views

This should provide a list of all dataviews… and you should be able to look in each and see what values are currently populated in each.

[jwphillips (Jonathan Phillips)]

@dcamlin

then type: epDebug.views

or Ctrl + Alt + v

[dcamlin (David Camlin)]

yeah, I know… I’m just not hotkey proficient

I type them in once and then just use the up arrow key in my console to pull up recent commands and never have to type them or use the hotkey again, so I never took the time to learn them. haha.

[Mark_Wonsil]

@jwphillips

Ctrl + Alt + v

Which only works if you click on the form first, not in the debug window. At least not in 2021.2…

[vingeance (Vincent-Simon Bolduc)]

I had the same issue just yesterday.

Your “From_onLoad” event trigger is Window.onLoad, not Form.onLoad. Issue is … there is NOT any Form.onLoad event on dashboards created using App Studio Wizard.

Window.onLoad event does not work to initialize TransView. It might be triggered too early.

You can use the “onCreate” event on your textbox filter to initialize the TransView. Just call row-update like you did in your Window.onLoad event (which I recommend to delete).

I wish there was a more appropriate event to bind to when trying to initialize dataviews / fields …

[tpynepeak (Tim)]

I am in early stages but the OnCreate event seems to be working for me so far!

I hooked an onBlur event that shows the value of the TransView field so thank you very much.

I’ve been able to get Kinetic Applications to call functions that do complex things but for some reason the basic UI seems wonky and I have to look it up every time I want to do anything basic