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header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689708]

Thu, 28 March 2024 09:48

emadnabil
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Dears

I have a strange behavior

I have a simple master details form

i am using pre-update trigger in the detail block to update value in the header block
here is the pre-update trigger

 :payment_flag := 'Y';

as payment_flag is in the header block

i traced it by putting messages in the trigger after setting the :payment_flag := 'Y';
and it normally changes its value to 'Y'
but when exit from the screen and return back to that record
I found it didn't apply the changes

why it didn't save it although by tracing the changes happens?
Thanks

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689709 is a reply to message #689708]

Thu, 28 March 2024 11:12

Michel Cadot
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Any feedback in your previous topic?

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689711 is a reply to message #689709]

Sun, 31 March 2024 04:55

emadnabil
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Good morning
I replied on the previous topic
Many thanks

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689712 is a reply to message #689711]

Sun, 31 March 2024 17:03

emadnabil
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Kindly support

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689720 is a reply to message #689712]

Wed, 03 April 2024 05:24

Littlefoot
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Did you COMMIT (i.e. push the "Save" button in toolbar) before exiting the form?

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689721 is a reply to message #689720]

Wed, 03 April 2024 05:46

cookiemonster
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I believe that you've got a timing issue.
When you press save forms processes each block in the order they are in the object navigator.
So it'll go through all the rows in the first block, see if there are any changes and if so apply them to the DB.
Then it'll do the same with the second block and so on.
Once it's done all the blocks it'll issue a commit.

So if you've got a pre-update trigger on the 2nd block that changes data in the 1st block that won't cause the change to the 1st block to be applied to the DB on that run of save processing.
However forms should know that the 1st block has changed. So if you press save a second time it should apply the change to the 1st block to the DB. And if you don't press save a second time and instead exit the form it should ask if you want to save changes.

Generally updating a master block from a child should be avoided. It causes all sorts of weird little problems due to the way forms work.

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689736 is a reply to message #689720]

Thu, 04 April 2024 04:23

emadnabil
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Did you COMMIT (i.e. push the "Save" button in toolbar) before exiting the form?

Yes and even so it applies the changes on the detailed block not the header

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Re: header data block is not saved when update in details block [message #689737 is a reply to message #689721]

Thu, 04 April 2024 04:29

emadnabil
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So if you've got a pre-update trigger on the 2nd block that changes data in the 1st block that won't cause the change to the 1st block to be applied to the DB on that run of save processing.
However forms should know that the 1st block has changed. So if you press save a second time it should apply the change to the 1st block to the DB. And if you don't press save a second time and instead exit the form it should ask if you want to save changes.

the second save i got