Design Studio - Population of list box from a query result (8.0.3 env and 8.1 apps)

See this post:
https://www.lawsonguru.co...stid/52/Default.aspx

John

I can not Thank you enough for the timely help. I have been strugging to get this to work for the past 3-4 days and with the code snippet you posted I finally got a breakthrough.

Thanks much.. I really appreciate what you are doing thru this forum.

-Sreeni

here is how I did it.

function populateList(f)
{
var fieldKey;
var hrbcRecs;
var hrbcCode;
var hrbcDesc;
var arrCOL;
var hrbcList;
dmeStr = "?XCOLS=TRUE&XKEYS=TRUE&XCOUNT=TRUE" +
"&XRELS=FALSE&XIDA=FALSE&XNEXT=FALSE" +
"&PROD=" + portalObj.getUserVariable("PRODLINE") +
"&FILE=PCODES" +
"&FIELD=CODE;DESCRIPTION;" +
"&INDEX=PCOSET1" +
"&KEY=41" +
"&SELECT=ACTIVE-FLAG%3DA" +
"&MAX=1000" +
"&OUT=XML";

dmeCall = portalWnd.httpRequest(portalWnd.DMEPath + dmeStr);

if (!dmeCall || dmeCall.status) {
alert("System Error. Contact HRIS. Error: PCODES HRBC DME");
return false;
}

dmeDS = new portalWnd.DataStorage(dmeCall);

try {
hrbcRecs = dmeDS.document.getElementsByTagName("RECORD");
alert(hrbcRecs.length);
if (hrbcRecs.length == 0)
{
alert("System Error. Contact HRIS. Error: No HRBC values");
return false;
}
} catch(err) {
alert("System Error. Contact HRIS. Error setting HRBC code " + err);
return false;
}

hrbcCode = new Array(hrbcRecs.length);
hrbcDesc = new Array(hrbcRecs.length);

//_f103r0 is the above field defined with tp="Select"
var hrbcList = document.getElementById("VALUES_f103r0");

var tVals;
for (var i=0; i {
arrCOL = hrbcRecs[i].getElementsByTagName("COL");
hrbcCode[i] = arrCOL[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
hrbcDesc[i] = arrCOL[1].firstChild.nodeValue;
tVals = document.createElement("span");
tVals.setAttribute("tran", hrbcCode[i]);
tVals.setAttribute("disp",hrbcCode[i]);
tVals.setAttribute("text",hrbcDesc[i]);
hrbcList.appendChild(tVals);
}

return true;
}

Hello!

 

First, I need to say how helpful Lawson Guru and all these posts are.  Reading through issues and resolutions posted here has certainly helped me, and countless others, I am sure, in getting through Lawson Design Studio questions and issues.

 

This particular post was extremely helpful for me when creating a custom list box, based on a users location,  of selected pars from the ICLOCATION table.  The selected value is then passed to the Par Location field on IC81.1 for display/maintenance.

 

I have one issue, however, when the returned  record set is greater than a count of 25.  It appears that the custom list box only displays the first 25, where the query would actually return a number greater than that.

 

This populatelist function does not limit the array in any way, so the custom list box limit must be controlled elsewhere.

 

Anyone have any ideas how I could find where it is controlled or  any work around for this to allow access to the remaining records that did not/could not display? 

I have answered my own question . . . The location as to where to control the number of records displaying via the custom list box has been identified.   In the DME query, I have added, "&MAX=150".  All works as expected now.