The Basic Application Wizard looks like a great place to start for a new screen, but the base screen doesn’t have a TransView. Did I miss something when generating the screen or can it be added?
It’s a runtime view; you’ll never see it in App Studio, but it’s “there”.
You can assign variables on the fly without having to define the view.
It shows in app studio on a normal screen or a deployed dashboard.
But in a screen created with the application wizard it’s not there.
I should probably explain what I’m trying to do. I’ll I’m making is a simple dashboard with a filter that isn’t in a slide out. My first approach was to deploy a dashboard with just a grid.
Add a filter column to TransView.
Drop a control bound to my new filter column in trans view.
Update the where clause on BAQ provider model to filter based on the filter column in TransView.
This works great until you redeploy the dashboard.
The Basic Application Wizard walks you through creating dashboard and I could make it work if I had a TransView.
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I haven’t actually bothered with the wizard, but you’re correct in that it does not add it automatically.
You can easily add it yourself and still behaves the same.
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Thanks Hannah. The transview I created doesn’t seem to act quite the same, I can’t get the BAQ to filter off of it. I’ll just live with the risk of overwritting the dashboard customization.
There’s not really a difference between a system created one and one you create.
How are you setting up the filter?
Here’s what I did on the dashboard:
Add a column to TransView.
Add a date picker and bind it to TransView.OrderDate.
Update the where list in the grid provider model.
The result is great. It refreshes as soon as you update the date and feels cleaner and faster than a classic dashboard.
For the page created in the application wizard I did the following:
Added a TransView and gave it a column OrderDate
Added a date picker and bound it to TransView.OrderDate
Added an event on create of the date picker calling row update and gave it a default value.
Update the where list in the grid provider model.
As soon as I add the where clause to the baq I get no results returned in the grid.
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The version I created with the application wizard is working now. I must have had a typo someplace.
Thanks for your help Hannah.
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I see that this Wizard is new to 2022.2. So I’m out of luck it seems for now.
But I am super jealous - so how is this working out for you, Carson? Looks like it takes a lot of the drudgery away. Plus I think until now you couldn’t build an app from scratch unless you had the SDK?
It’s working well. Unless the dashboard converts to Kinetic exactly how we want, we are rebuilding it with the App wizard. I’m really happy with the results, the dashboards come out cleaner and faster than in classic. Based on the help and that it generates an app with the same naming convention as a dashboard I get the impression it will be the Kinetic replacement for the dashboard developer.
Eventually I post a video of the process we are using.
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I am trying the same thing here, mainly because with BAQ parameters in dashboards, the bloody things keep reprompting in the slideout everytime the user changes something, like filtering a column. If you are summing columns then you get hit with the BAQ params twice everytime Grrr.
I didn’t think I would need to or be able to create the TransView the way you described, but when i bind my date pickers to TransView.From and TransView.To they appear disabled:
When I add the TransView myself and try adding those columns, it won’t let me set anything more than Name, ie cant set Data Type, and my date pickers are still disabled:
Looks like adding the onCreate to the date picker and initializing the date (as you did above) kicked the machinery into gear!
More to experiment with but this looks like a way nicer approach than the classic to kinetic dashboard implemenation which seems very buggy.
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Learning Kinetic customizations here and stumbled upon this post in a very similar situation. I’ve created the Kinetic application through the wizard, added the TransView manually, and began following some of the process’s others posted previously.
Whenever I run the dashboard & choose a date based off the ‘From’ date picker, I get returned no results. I’m imagining I am missing something basic or key to make this function. I currently disabled the ‘To’ date picker in order to try filtering based off a single date for now.
Dashboard:
Here are both my data view with the BAQ & TransView:
Here is data picker binding:
Date Picker onCreate for a row update:
Finally, the where list for my BAQ field I wanted to filter off of:
Thanks for any tips or help!
Remove the single quotes from your date filter: ??{TransView.dtFrom}
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Still get returned no results. 
Check the network tab of Dev Tools to see what it’s passing for filters.
Heres what I found:
Maybe I need to format my date filter to shortdate data type to match column settings? (just a guess)
Another parse error before turning on Epicor debugging:
Set your value to 2023-1-1 instead of 1/1/2023.
Look at the network tab as well, though. There should be a REST call in there.
You should have some rest call (Not necessarily an ExecuteBaq) that has filters. This will show you what it’s sending and you can diagnose from there.
Does the Network > Results tab show anything for that call?
If you enter that same date in your BAQ manually, does it get data?