loading external JSON elements

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#1

Hello!
I load my form from a son file …
“myForm.loadStruct(”./analytics1/formEric.json", function(){});"

How do I do this at the same time?
“myForm.setItemValue(“x_y_z”, 0);”

I started with the form IN the webpage, in a json-like-text. When the form text was PART OF the doOnLoad command, everything worked perfectly. NOW, I extracted the form to an external son file (see above) and all my form modifying lines (like multiple setItemValue & things like… “document.getElementsByName(“form_element”)[0].value = <?php echo ($loggedIn)?$_SESSION["userID"]:0;?>;”)… all of these form-modifying lines don’t work AND show errors in the debug console.

Do i have the lines in the wrong order??
How do I include form-modifying code into this page? how/where? do i put all the form-modifying-code in an external js file or something & include the js file into the head?

Here’s a short-hand of the pages’ code…
function doOnLoad() {
var myForm = new dhtmlXForm(“vp”);
var dp = new dataProcessor("./analytics1/timewarp.php");
var dhxCalendar = myForm.getCalendar(“myCalendar”);
//dp.init(myForm);//link form to dataprocessor
myForm.loadStruct("./analytics1/formEric.json", function(){});
//set some default values.
myForm.setItemValue(“time_analyst_confidence”, 0);
myForm.setItemValue(“time_classification”, 2);
myForm.setItemValue(“time_agent_ID”, 0);
myForm.setItemValue(“time_work_location”, 0);
etc…
Close head & close doOnLoad…

Entry Page

etc…

#2

Hi

myForm.loadStruct("./analytics1/formEric.json", function(){ // this is callback function, it called after json loaded and parsed by form, // exatly here form items become existing, i.e. you can call: myForm.setItemValue(..); });

the same with calendar:

var dhxCalendar = myForm.getCalendar("myCalendar");

if {type:calendar,name:myCalendar} declared in formEric.json, you also need to move myForm.getCalendar to callback above.

#3

Hello!
Thanks for the reply!
Based on your answer, the myForm.setItemValue() are correct in my code… but no itemValues get set.

When I had the entire form written as-part-of the code, the values would set.
When I took the form out of the code and put it in a separate json file, the itemValues wouldn’t update.

Do I have to set the NAME of the item or the ID of the item? Currently, I have the NAME of the item matching the seItemValue command. Maybe if I ad an “id” to the item, the setItemValue will work.
I don’t understand why the setItemValue doesn’t set after the Form has been extracted & set in a jSON file.

Thanks!
-Eric-

#4

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