Customizing the form items of DynamicForm bound to dynamic DataSource

[pilami]

Hello,

I use SmartGWT 1.5.7.

I use a DynamicForm that gets configured by a dynamic datasource because the number of fields and their types are unknown in advance.

I would like to be able to customize the form items created from the DS fields, I have set in DS some extra field attributes that get interpreted by the form items (e.g. width or displayField) but I'd like to go further by being able to use a different type of FormItem.

In particular, I'd like to use a ListGrid for editing relations rather than a multiple SelectItem.

So far, I am unable to do so, when I do a form.getFields(), the returned fields are all TextItems created by FormItemFactory.
So I'm not sure this is even possible.

Thanks,

Gael

[pilami]

I think I'll try to read the fields from the DataSource and create specific items for few of them.

[pilami]

In the quick start guide, chapter 5 Data Binding / Custom Binding it says:

Now, all DataSource fields will be shown unless you provide a component field definition where you have called setHidden(true).

AFAIK, there is no setHidden() method in FormItem but I replaced it by setAttribute("showIf", "false") and it works.