The Edit Offices table has been created on a separate top page. When the solution runs, this page is accessed from the main page (screenshot below left). Clicking the button Edit Offices Table loads the Edit Offices table (screenshot below right). The Offices table has seven rows, each of which has a non-editable ID column, an editable City column, and a Delete control (see screenshot below right). Additionally, there is an Append Row control below the last row, a Submit button in the Edit Offices Table bar, and a Back button to go back to the previous page (the main page in this case).
In the design, the Edit buttons (first screenshot below) have both been assigned the Go to Page action on their respective OnButtonClicked events (right-click the button and select Control Actions for OnButtonClicked). These Go to Page actions (second screenshot below) load the respective target pages.
Creating the editable Offices table
The Offices table in the DB has the structure displayed in the data tree of $DB1 (screenshot below). Since the @id attribute is the primary key, it cannot be changed. This means that when a new record is appended, the end user cannot enter an @id value via the solution. The @id value must be generated automatically using an XQuery expression. The XQuery expression is inserted by using the context menu command, Ensure Exists before Page Load (XPath Value):
let $all := $DB1/DB/RowSet/Row/@id
let $ids := remove($all, index-of($all, ""))
let $id := if (empty($ids)) then 1 else max($ids) + 1
return $id
In the design, we will do the following:
To... |
How |
Display all (Office) rows |
Add a repeating table, with the Office row as the repeating element |
Include controls for deletion and addition of rows |
When adding the table, enable the automatic inclusion of Delete/Append controls |
Enable editing of @City values |
Add an Edit Field control that has a source node to @City |
Save changes back to DB |
Add a Save action to the page's OnSubmitButtonClicked event; Also, right-click $DB1 and toggle on Create OriginalRowSet |
Go back to the main page |
Add a Go to Page action to the page's OnBackButtonClicked event |
