Upgrade to SmartGWT 13 - don't see prompts in the FilterEditor

[smartiro]

Hi,

After upgrading to SmartGWT 13 the following code has stopped working for us:

ListGrid grid = new ListGrid();
grid.setShowFilterEditor(true);
ListGridField field = new ListGridField("Field", 100);
TextItem textItem = new TextItem();
textItem.setPrompt("Text Format");
field.setFilterEditorProperties(textItem);
grid.setFields(field);


We're expecting to see "Text Format" prompt when hovering over Filter Editor for Field, but nothing comes up.
This used to work in version 6.1
Not sure if there's a new way to achieve same result..

Thank you!

[smartiro]

Hi,

I downloaded latest build from 13.1 branch, but this is still an issue for us. I'm seeing the default hover text over the filters, not our customized one. Is there anything besides the code above that we need to do?
Thanks!

[Isomorphic]

If you're seeing default prompts, then you must have set properties that causes the FilterEditor to show prompts, and that's why it's not showing yours.

So what settings are you using, and given that for some modes (e.g. allowFilterWindow) it would be a functional break (and accessibility violation) to show your prompt instead of the built-in ones, so you'll need to think carefully about what exactly you want in this mode.

[smartiro]

We have:


grid.setAllowFilterExpressions(false);
grid.setAllowFilterOperators(false);
grid.setAllowFilterWindow(false);
grid.setShowHeaderContextMenu(false);
grid.setShowHeaderMenuButton(false);

[Isomorphic]

That is turning a bunch of features off. If you are experiencing some default hovers, and you don't want to provide code to reproduce them so we can troubleshoot, can you then at least provide the text or a screenshot of the default hovers you are getting? Then we can figure out from that what settings are missing in your repro case.

[smartiro]

Here's the complete code:


ListGridField idField = new ListGridField("loadID", "Load ID");

TextItem textItem = new TextItem();
textItem.setPrompt("My Special Format");
ListGridField trackingField = new ListGridField("loadDescription", "Load Tracking Number");
trackingField.setFilterEditorProperties(textItem);

ListGrid grid = new ListGrid();
grid.setDataSource(ds);
grid.setShowFilterEditor(true);
grid.setAllowFilterExpressions(false);
grid.setAllowFilterOperators(false);
grid.setAllowFilterWindow(false);
grid.setShowHeaderContextMenu(false);
grid.setShowHeaderMenuButton(false);
grid.setFields(idField, trackingField);


Our expectation is when I hover over trackingField's filter I should see "My Special Format" (even without doing anything)
Currently I see nothing. When I put 'test' in the filter value and run the filter and then hover I can see 'Load Tracking Number contains test'.

Thank you!

[Isomorphic]

Looks like this was fixed correctly but there was a problem in the backport specifically to 13.1 which rendered the fix inactive. Builds from tomorrow on will have the full fix (April 24th or later).

[smartiro]

Ok. Thank you!

[smartiro]

Sorry to revive this, but one more question:
When there's a value applied in FilterEditor for text field our hover stops showing up and system one shows up that says: <Field> contains <Value>. E.g. "Tracking Number contains ABCD123" For numeric fields it says 'equals' instead of 'contains'.
Is this text controllable?
Our backend applies 'equals' filter to text values and not 'contains', so this prompt looks misleading for us.
Thank you!

[Isomorphic]

If your server ignores textMatchStyle and/or the operatorId and instead forces "equals" filtering, then you need to configure SmartClient properly for that - set either textMatchStyle to "exact" or "exactCase", or if this is a field-specific limitation, set listGridField.operation to "equals" or "iEquals".

This will fix your filtering (which is currently broken) and the hover text will also be correct.