This chapter contains the following topics:
A header detail form is used when a relationship exists between the information in the header (the fields above the grid) and the information in the detail area (the grid itself). The header portion uses one business view (BV), and the detail portion of the form can use another BV. This form type (as well as the headerless detail form type) is referred to as a transaction form.
These property values are particularly significant in the design of the header detail form:
The fetch properties are important because of their effect in data display during runtime. You must select Fetch on Form Businessview to populate the controls in the header portion of the form. Likewise, you must select Fetch on Grid Businessview to populate the grid.
Similarly, select Update on Form Businessview if you intend to permit users to commit their modifications to records in the header controls to the database. Select Update on Grid Businessview to enable the commitment of modified grid records.
These events can occur on the header detail form during runtime:
Dialog is Initialized
Post Dialog is Initialized
Grid Record is Fetched
Last Grid Record Has Been Read
Clear Screen Before Add
Clear Screen After Add
Write Grid Line-Before
Write Grid Line-After
Add Record to DB - Before
Add Record to DB - After
Update Record to DB - Before
Update Record to DB - After
Post Commit
End Dialog
XAPI Subscribe Event
This section discusses how runtime processes header detail forms. This section discusses form-level runtime processing only. Much of the runtime processing for the header detail "form" actually occurs on the level of the grid control, however.
See Grid Control Runtime Processing.
When a header detail form is called, runtime initializes these items in this order:
Thread handling
Error handling process
BV columns
Form controls
Grid fields
Static text
Helps
Event rules (ER) structures
This flowchart illustrates the tasks that runtime performs after initializing these objects to complete dialog initialization:
Figure 7-1 Header detail form initialization
This list discusses how runtime clears the form in preparation to display retrieved data:
If the form was called in Copy mode, clear the key (primary index) controls for which the Do not clear after add option was enabled.
If the form was not called in Copy mode, clear all form controls for which the Do not clear after add option has been disabled.
Fire the Clear Screen Before Add event.
Fire the Post Dialog is Initialized event.
After dialog initialization, runtime populates the form only if it is in Update mode. Then, it seeks to populate the header if the Fetch on Form Businessview option is enabled. If enabled, runtime fetches the header record and populates the controls in the header.
Next, runtime performs a fetch and populates the grid if the Automatically Find on Entryand the Fetch on Grid Businessview options are both enabled. The fetch an populate process used is standard for grid controls.
OK is a standard button on header detail forms that appears by default. It causes runtime to validate the information on the form and update or add it to the database through JDEKRNL function calls.
This flowchart illustrates the initial tasks that constitute runtime processing for the OK button:
Figure 7-2 Header detail OK button processing, part 1 of 4
This flowchart expands on how runtime populates the grid during OK button processing:
Figure 7-3 Header detail OK button processing, part 2 of 4
This flowchart illustrates how runtime processes any mode changes during OK button processing:
Figure 7-4 Header detail OK button processing, part 3 of 4
This flowchart illustrates how runtime completes the form close process during OK button processing:
Figure 7-5 Header detail OK button processing, part 4 of 4
The Cancel button is a standard button on header detail forms that appears by default. When the user clicks it, runtime fires the Button Clicked and Post Button Clicked events in immediate succession. If no errors occur, runtime cancels any media objects that might be open. Also, if a manual transaction is in process, runtime attempts to cancel it as well. Then, runtime fires the End Dialog event and initiates the dialog close process.
Header detail can be closed either by the user (typically by clicking the OK or Cancel buttons) or by the system. After performing any control-level close processing that might need to occur, runtime closes the form. If the event has not already occurred, runtime fires the End Dialog event. Then it performs these tasks in this order:
Load form interconnect data from BV columns for database commit.
Terminate error and thread handling.
Terminate helps.
Free all form structures.
Destroy the window.