Question

Bulk/grouped conditional editability available?

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I have a form on page, within a data view that contains many input fields (20 – 30). I would like to bulk control whether these fields are all editable, or all non-editable based on an attribute the object associated with my data view. I can apply my editability conditional statement on a per-input field basis but cant find a way to apply the control on a bulk basis. I could create a duplicate page and have the whole dataview as non-editable in the duplicate but then I have two pages to maintain rather than one. Is there something i’m missing or should I put this in the ideas section?

asked 2019-11-28

Warren Gay

2 answers

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See also this question: https://forum.mendix.com/link/questions/97154

answered 2019-11-28

Tim v Steenbergen

Rom van Arendonk · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-28

You can put all the input widgets in a snippet. Then you have two pages, where you set editability on the Data View. In my experience, this is a very common thing in Mendix projects, where you have Entity_NewEdit pages and Entity_View pages.

This also allows you to change the contents of the control bar of the Data View: in the Entity_View page, you can add a ClosePage button, instead of the Save and Cancel buttons of the Entity_NewEdit page.