When child form is used in multiple parents, how to pass data in a subform-subform structure?

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Penny Lau

November 29, 2018 14:46

The idea is to have a feature to capture Parent Page ID in the subform so you know which parent the subform is calling hence can adjust the dynamic value based on the parent, then you will be able to pass data around in a subform-subform structure regardless of which parent form you open.

 

 

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  Jonathan Hsu November 29, 2018 14:49

  Do you mean something similar to the built-in function iformbuilder.pageID but for Parent ID?

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  Penny Lau November 29, 2018 14:55

  Yes that's what I meant. But we are open to any ideas that can help solve this challenge.

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  Permanently deleted user November 29, 2018 15:30

  What if you have iformbuilder.page ID on the parent forms in a hidden Text (same data column name in all parent forms) then pass that dcn to the subform? 

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  Penny Lau November 29, 2018 15:39 (Edited November 29, 2018 15:40)

  Hi Le, you won't be able to do that since you have to reference parent form name when passing data in a subform-subform structure (subform nested in a subform)

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  Luan Ngo December 03, 2018 18:54

  Hi All,

  I have a similar scenario setup at my organization and what i had to do to make this work was ensure that the value i am passing from the parent from had the exact element_name.  this way, when i call from the child table, it will be able to pick up anything filled out from the parent form regardless of which parent it came from.  

  For example: parent_form1.city, parent_form2.city, parent_form3.city can all be accessed by the child form when calling city.

  The tricky challenge in this is when introducing the ESRI widget. The system stores a cache copy of "city" when generating the first record directly from the child form.  Then create a new record from the parent form, it stores the "city" from the previously created form.  I know it sounds a bit confusing but it is something that has been plaguing us for quite some time now.

  Luan Ngo

  OC Vector

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