Different fields on two databound objects

[Captain Jack]

Hi,

I have two databound objects - ListGrid and DynamicForm. What I want to do is to be able to have different fields on those two objects as well as add additional ones.

For example, if you consider a typical user account table with the following fields:

id {pk}
username
password
lastlogin
status
privilege

When I data bind the source to ListGrid and DynamicForm, I get all of the above fields displayed except id (which is .setHidden(true)). But I do want it arranged as follows:

ListGrid:

username
lastlogin
status
privilege

DynamicForm:

username
password
confirmpassword (non-db)
lastlogin
status
privilege

I don't understand how I can pick and mix which fields to display in a databound object. I tried .setFields option but that seems to only be for non-databound fields.

I have also tried the following:

final DataSource userDataSource = new VDataSource("app/user/");

DataSourceField uField = new DataSourceField("username", FieldType.TEXT,"Username");
userDataSource.addField(uField);
		
TextItem uTextField = new TextItem();
uTextField.setTitle("Username");
uTextField.setDisplayField("username");

final DynamicForm form = new DynamicForm();

//form.setDataSource(userDataSource);
form.setFields(uTextField);

This kind of worked, however, when I tried to do form.saveData(), I got an error message saying that .saveData() is not support for non-databound DynamicForm.

Any ideas?

P.S. I am quite new in Java/GWT, so be gentle :)

[davidj6]

If you want to change orders of fields, use .setFields(). See the examples. You can choose any order and apply additional client-side handling as desired. When the ID/name of a field matches one in the datasource your settings supplement those from the datasource. See the DataBoundComponent in the reference docs.