How To Prime Details

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#1

I have a grid which display records and right below a DETAIL section which displays selected row details. It all works fine except one thing.
I want the detail form to be blank upon opening the grid app and do not display any data until user clicks the magnifying glass icon. At this moment every time I start the grid it shows the details for the first record.
any ideas how to make the details BLANK ?

Arthur

#2

This won’t show a blank form, but will hide the detail section until you activate it…

Assuming your detail section is in its own block, disable the block in the grid’s onApplicationInit.

sc_block_display(blockname, off);

Once a record is clicked enable the block in the grid’s OnRecord:

sc_block_display(blockname, on);

#3

Thanks but,…
I’m using a grid so I do not understand how am I supposed to get the BLOCKS implemented (it’s SC7 project).
BTW - everything in this App is read only (no edits)

Arthur

#4

Blocks are in SC7 too: Under Layout you can define an extra block - but as I recall now, blocks only work if orientation is slide. So apologies for that.

You have a screen shot showing the issue?

#5

Here is a screenshot. I need an underlying details form blank until user selects particular record

Art

GridDetailsIssue.jpg

#6

aka - ok understand now.

Ideally, you need a way to enable / disable the “detail” module from within code; enabling it on the first record click. Or have an exit point that allows you to change the detail view data to blanks prior to a record click. But it doesn’t look like that’s possible that I can see. Sorry.

:frowning:

#7

One option might be to display the data within a block which can be made invisible by a sc_macro?

#8

Albert, I suggested that earlier - the thing is it’s a grid and blocks are only usable if grid orientation is slide… :frowning:

#9

exactly - the blocks in the grid are missing and we really need them for simple tasks like this one