[ic] Custom types in transactions::status field
Mike Heins
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Apr 10 22:41:01 2003
Quoting Steve Palm (stevep@sga.org):
>
> On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Mike Heins wrote:
> > Quoting Steve Palm (stevep@sga.org):
> >>
> >> I went into the admin interface, and changed the metadata definition
> >> for the status field popup in the transaction table.
> >>
> >> When viewing an order status screen which lists the orders one per
> >> line, it shows up fine using the stored value, and if I click on this
> >> to change the order status, the pop-up list has the correct longer
> >> text
> >> in it.
> >>
> >> However, when using the order_view to see the full order, the
> >> Status:
> >> is blank. The code for this in the UI is:
> >>
> >> <B>[L]Status[/L]:<B> [page href=__UI_BASE__/order_status
> >> form="order=[loop-code]
> >> "]
> >> [display table=transactions
> >> column=status
> >> key="[loop-code]"
> >> arbitrary=order_view
> >> ]</A>
> >>
> >> However, it only works properly if I use the types that were
> >> pre-defined in the metadata.
> >>
> >> What am I overlooking here?
> >
> > Try removing the "arbitrary=order_view".
>
> okay, that let's something show, but it shows a drop-down box instead
> of the hyperlinked text it used to show.
>
> i confess i don't have a clue what removing that did, or i may have
> thought of it myself, so i really don't have a clue how to proceed.
These are normal Interchange widget types. You want "display". Try:
[display table=transactions
column=status
key="[loop-code]"
type=display
]
That displays the label associated with a selected value.
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Mike Heins
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