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Travis Herron's profile image
Travis Herron posted 02-10-2021 15:10
I created a new tab in Application Designer for the Person application.  On this new tab, I want a read-only look at several things:
--Person Groups the Person is a member of
--Labor information, if the Person has a Labor record; which then enables me to also add . . .
--Qualifications info
--Craft info

And it's all working fine.  Almost.  All the data is there.  Had to make some custom relationships, but it works.

What isn't working, is that for some reason, in the Table Control that has the Person Groups, of course I have the PersonGroup (ID) column.  Being a Table, of course I configured to be able to toggle between Summary and Detail views.  I configured the Table Column Control and the Textbox Control in the Detail row the same:  GoTo = PERSONGR, Menu Type = NORMAL, Lookup = PERSONGROUP.

In Application Designer, it "looks" right.  But when I go to the Person application, the lookup menu does not display in the Summary row.  If I toggle it open, it is properly there in the Details row and works correctly.  Any ideas?

(I tried to upload some screen captures, but I can't get it to work. . .)
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Steven Shull posted 02-11-2021 09:35 Best Answer
If you expand the filter on the table, do you see the lookup and go to menu on the filter? The navigation issue you're showing there is something I opened a case with IBM on and they insisted it was working as intended. If the field is always read-only at a UI level (you make the column or table read-only), the go to links are removed on table columns. Essentially, if you make it read-only with a data restriction (inside the Security Groups application) or via script/java class or via conditional UI, you can use the Go To on a table entry. But if you set the control as always read-only in the app itself you can't. We ended up implementing a data restriction (tied to the app specifically) so that we could still use it in one of our apps.
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Steven Shull posted 02-11-2021 08:35
The thing that comes to mind for me is that you have linked the table column to another control and this link is incorrect. It's a really neat feature, but essentially you can tell the table column that it's linked to a control that exists in the details section and they'll use the same lookups and such. In Application Designer open the table column properties and switch to the Advanced tab. See if you have anything in the "Linked Controls ID". If so clear it out and then see if it works as expected.
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Travis Herron posted 02-11-2021 09:26
Definitely a good thought, but that didn't work.

This is the strangest thing!  On this same screen/tab I've got a table for the Person's related Labor's Craft codes and Qualifications, with the same basic setup, and those two work properly.




(Yea! Pictures are uploading now that I'm using my office's high speed network!)
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Travis Herron posted 02-11-2021 09:43
That's it!  Once I took off the read-only settings, the lookups appeared as expected.

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