form 'NEW' record behavior

Scriptcase 8 Discussion
#1

Good Morning SC community from Houston, TX,
I’m having some difficulty doing what my client wants to see on creating ‘New’ records. Maybe you can direct me to a solution.
I have a messaging feature where the user can select from several sources of email/text recipients. I have a ‘grouped’ button that drops down so the user can make these choices. All works great on the ‘update’ mode. But when creating a NEW record this ‘grouped’ button still displays the button but it does not function (no dropdown). All the other form buttons except ‘Add’ and ‘Cancel’ are hidden in the NEW record mode. I think the ‘grouped’ button should also be hidden in ‘NEW’ record mode as the user thinks, rightly so that if he can see it it should be working.

Next, he only wants to create 1 new record at a time and then return to the ‘update’ mode for record completion and sending. But once in ‘NEW’ mode you have to ‘CANCEL’ to get out of it. Is there a way to set it for only 1 at a time?

I know this is kind of confusing and hard for me to explain. If needed I could post a link to a video showing my problem.
Thanks for you guidance.

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#2

The grouped button holds a set of ‘regular’ buttons. I think that these grouped buttons could hold any button and might therefore be out of the update buttons control. Just a wild guess to be honest. You could try to hide it yourself using sc macro’s. There is an updatemode in your menu somewhere which allows you not to open a new record after insert but move into edit mode. I think that should do the job.

#3

Hello aducom,
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I found the selection button to return to EDIT mode after INSERTing.
It is in the Navigation section, “Return After Inserting” selection.
Still trying to find a way to hide the button group in insert record mode.

#4

I have found a solution to hiding a button group button on Insert mode only:
in the forms onLoad event I call a javascript method like so:

if (sc_btn_new) // this is true only when the ‘New Record’ button is clicked
{
sc_ajax_javascript(‘Hide_btn_SelectRecipients’);
}

the javascript method code is just 1 line:

document.getElementById(“sc_btgp_btn_group_1_t”).s tyle.display=‘none’;

where “sc_btgp_btn_group_1_t” is the id of the button group