Help with dataPath

Technical Q&A
1

I’ve been struggling with getting a form element to display a value based on a datapath. Below is my test code and data. I would appreciate if anyone point out why the settings field on the form isn’t getting populated.

Thanks

isc.setAutoDraw(false);
isc.DataSource.create({
            ID: "testDS",
            fields: [
                {name: "id", primaryKey: true, type: "integer", hidden: true},
                {name:"name", title:"Name", required: true},
                    {name:"fName", title:"First Name", required: true},
                    {name:"lName", title:"Last Name", required: true},
                {name:"config", type: "Config"}
            ],
            dataURL: "/contacts.json"
        });

isc.DataSource.create({
    ID: "Config",
    fields: [
        {name:"reportSetting"}
    ]
});

isc.HLayout.create({
    ID: "mainLayout",
            members:[
                isc.ListGrid.create({
                    ID: "listGrid",
                    width:300,
                    dataSource: "testDS",
                   fields: [{name: "name"}],
                    autoFetchData:true,
                    recordClick:"datamartForm.editRecord(record);"
                }),
                isc.DynamicForm.create({
                    width:300,
                            ID:"datamartForm",
                    dataSource: "testDS",
                            fields:[
                                {
                                    name: "fName"
                                },
                                {
                                    name: "lName"
                                },
                                {
                                    dataPath:"config/reportSetting", title: "Setting"
                                }

                            ]
                        })
            ]
        });


mainLayout.draw();

and here is contacts.json file

[
   {
      "id":1,
      "name":"Ms K Glover",
      "salutation":"Ms",
      "fName":"Kathy",
      "lName":"Glover",
      "state":1,
      "config":"{\"reportSetting\" : \"abc\", \"chartSetting\" : \"efg\"}"
   },
   {
      "id":2,
      "name":"Mr R Glover",
      "salutation":"Mr",
      "fName":"Rob",
      "lName":"Glover",
      "state":2,
      "config":"{\"reportSetting\" : \"abc\", \"chartSetting\" : \"efg\"}"
   }
]

SmartClient Version: SC_SNAPSHOT-2011-05-25/LGPL Deployment (built 2011-05-25)

2

Your “config” subobject is a simple String, not a sub-Object, because it’s being quoted as a String.

3

That was it. Thank you! I appreciate the quick response.