Welcome back to the ongoing series of how we can use and manipulate the user interface to your advantage in model driven apps in fully supported ways. We have discussed a number of options in the past and you can find them all with the search tag user-interface. Like my Read more…
Welcome back to the ongoing series of how we can use and manipulate the user interface to your advantage in model driven apps in fully supported ways. We have discussed a number of options in the past and you can find them all with the search tag user-interface. Todays isn’t Read more…
Welcome back to my third in the series of using the user interface to your advantage in model driven apps, if you have missed previous we have spoken about setNotification and addNotification so feel free to go and check them out. All our previous blog posts were field specific and Read more…
Previously we spoke about using the setNotification feature from the javascript SDK in this blog post but today we are going to talk about something similar but subtly different. Today’s topic of discussion is addNotification. formContext.getControl(arg).addNotification(notification); Add a notification to a control sample code The previous setNotification did one thing Read more…
There are some fantastic parts of the model driven app world that are underused and I’m not really sure why? Maybe the fact they require coders to write them but who really knows? Over the course of a few blog posts, I’m going to show you some of my favourite Read more…
4 parts! A 4 part blog post about required fields. Who knew that was possible?! In case you missed previous, here’s part 1, part 2 and part 3. For 3 posts, I’ve spoken about why required fields can be bad and why the phrase “System Required” can be misleading depending Read more…
During the wrapping up of my required fields series, I wrote a custom plugin to solve the problem that CDS simply doesn’t solve in a safe way – I’ve open sourced that code if you decide you would also like to use it. The raw code can be found on Read more…
I’ll be honest when I started writing about required fields, I didn’t expect to still be writing at part 3 but here we are – shows I have a lot of thoughts about them! Part 1 is here and part 2 is here. Previously we have spoken about using required Read more…
Part 2 of a discussion of required fields and where they often fall down in peoples systems.
Required fields will, at some point, detract from the quality of your data in pretty much any system. I will try and explain why!