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# Customize form fields specifications
CASES
- https://rockfish.ayanova.com/default.htm#!/rfcaseEdit/3426
- https://rockfish.ayanova.com/default.htm#!/rfcaseEdit/1442
- https://rockfish.ayanova.com/default.htm#!/rfcaseEdit/1368
- https://rockfish.ayanova.com/default.htm#!/rfcaseEdit/3408
REQUIREMENTS
UI FEATURE - The ability to customize forms:
- A "Customize" option in the Action bar menu | that is accessible to people of BizAdminFull role only
- If a dispatcher needs a custom field set on a workorder, a bizadminfull user must login and set that up for them
- When customize is selected a generic form pops up with a list of fields provided by the backend and their current settings and controls
- This form can then be re-used everywhere as it's a stock object and this way we don't need to have a customize form for every existing CRUD form
- Choosing to expose one or more of up to 16 custom fields on form in custom field section that shows when at least one is enabled
- Set the localized text for the current locale for every existing field and any custom ones enabled
- Set whether a field is visible or not to user
- Some stock fields will never be able to be hidden, they will be "core" fields required for AyaNova operations and will have their hidden checkbox grayed out
- Set whether a field custom or stock is required to have a value entered or have it's value changed
- If required then it's like a business rule and treated just like that at the back and front end
- During business rule validation check at backend it checks if the fields are required and have entries and returns a validation error if not exactly the same as for built in rules
- Ideally this would be a better feature if it was everywhere, not just in a limited set of objects but rather in all substantial objects
- Client caches the customization data when it first opens the form and then checks if it's changed when it next opens the form
- The route that fetches the FormCustom data needs to accept a query item that is a date or concurrency token so that
if nothing has changed the server returns the unchanged code or instead returns all the data if it is changed to save bandwidth
- RAVEN custom fields start with 1 not zero like in v7
- Import v7 custom0 to RAVEN custom1
## TODO
- Need a FormCustom table and model to hold the user's form customization data
- Only holds items that differ from stock, no "core" fields allowed
- FormKey
- FieldKey
- Hide
- Required
- Type (checkbox, date, date time, decimal, number, picklist, and text)
- Need a FormAvailableFields static collection class that contains the fields available to each form
- This should be independent from any other class tied to a particular route or controller or db table as it could be some or none of all of those things
- Method: GetFields(FormKey): FieldKey (localekey), Core (bool, true means can't be hidden), IsCustom (bool, means it's one of the custom fields that can be set to type etc)
- Method: GetForms() returns a list of form names
- Method: IsValidForm(string formKey) bool exists or not
- Need a FormCustom controller that supports routes for:
- Routes for customization form populating and receiving
- GET (formkey), gets a FormOptions object that combines the data from FormAvailableFields static class with the current custom values if any from the FormCustom table
- POST (formkey), accepts a FormCustom object that contains the users customization choices only
- Validation ensures "CORE" fields cannot be customized
- Localization changes are handled here even though they aren't part of the actual FormCustom table, so split off and separately the localized text is updated
- Routes for the day to day form display purposes that efficiently fetch the form customization to use on demand and caches at the client
- (GET formkey, token): Given a formkey and an *optional* concurrency token, returns one of the following:
- If no concurrency token or doesn't match the current db one then:
- a list of customized fields (not the non customized ones) so the client can display the UI correctly:
- Basically whatever is in the FormCustom table record for that formkey
- If concurrency token provided and is unchanged then simply returns a code 304 (NOT MODIFIED)
EXISTING v7:
- 10 custom fields in
- Client
- Contract
- HeadOffice
- LoanItem
- Part
- Project
- PurchaseOrder
- Unit
- UnitModel
- User
- Vendor
- WorkorderItem
RAVEN REQUIREMENTS / CHANGES