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using a “text” to link as shown in picture 1
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using a “input box” and prefill it with current item name. but when submitted, the Car Model is not recorded as shown in Picture 2
You are describing some attempts to manage your issue?
But you do not show the code you have written for it!
Did you use code at all to solve your issue?
- I assume that you will have even 2-datasets which are related to your above described issue, don’t you?
How do i know this?
As this form is present in all the items page…
Looks like a → DYNAMIC-PAGE (and every dynamic-page has a dynamic-dataset).
So what do know else about your project-setup?
- You will also have an ordinary dataset…
Which will do the savings to your → “Test Drive Appointment” DATABASE
(YES → DATABASE , please do yourself a favour and don’t call it COLLECTION).
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So now you have a conflict, because you are using two different DATASETS, which do not really communicate with each other.
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Let’ generate some helping code, which will solve our problem…
First o all what you will need is to wait, for…
a) page-ready…
b) dynamic-dataset ready…
c) ordinary-dataset-ready…
This is always the first thing you will do inside your code, when working on a wix-page using datasets or dynamic-datasets.
$w.onReady(()=>{
$w('#dynamicDataset').onReady(()=>{
});
$w('#dataset1').onReady(()=>{
});
});
Now let’s get first the data of your dynamic-page…
$w.onReady(()=>{
$w('#dynamicDataset').onReady(()=>{
let curItem=$w('#dynamicDataset').getCurrentItem();
console.log("Current-Item: ", curItem);
});
$w('#dataset1').onReady(()=>{
});
});
You already can should be able to see some results when preview your project setup inside the wix-editors PREVIEW-MODE.
Surely you will get something like → […] or —> {…}.
Clicking onto the results, the object will open —> showing everything whats inside.
So what exactly you wanted to do one more time?
Oh yes → you wanted to save data, including the data from your dynamic page, right?
So since we already know the data of the dynamic page (we have stored it already inside a → VARIABLE), now we nedd to generate the saving process, after we have clicked onto our SUBMISSION-BUTTON…
There are 2-different ways of how to do so…
In your case you have connected the button inside the PROPERTY-PANEL, that means, coding an already existing function, would make no sense, it would just create a doubled uneccessary functionality.
But how to proceed now? We can’t code it?
Yes of course we can!!! But what do we need to be able to do so?
So here we go…(what is that?)
$w("#myDataset").onBeforeSave( () => {
console.log("Continuing save");
return true;
});
This is a → HOOK (onBeforeSave()-Hook) → which will give us the opertunity to proceed our saving.
Let’s implement it into our code…
$w.onReady(()=>{
$w('#dynamicDataset').onReady(()=>{
let curItem=$w('#dynamicDataset').getCurrentItem();
console.log("Current-Item: ", curItem);
});
$w('#dataset1').onReady(()=>{
});
$w('#dataset1').onBeforeSave(()=> {
//----------------------------
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//----------------------------
console.log("Continuing save");
return true;
});
});
Ok, what next ?
- You will have to tell the function, what has to be done → BEFORE-SAVING !!!
Inside the shown code-block…
//----------------------------
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//additional code here...
//----------------------------
This for you will use…
setFieldValue - Velo API Reference - Wix.com
Fixed-static-example:
$w('#dataset1').setFieldValue("carModel", "My-New-Car-Model");
Yes, we added the right DATABASE-FIELD, but wait, you don’t want to have a static/fixed value.
You want to have the “car-model-data” from your dynamic page!!!
Didn’t we already got this data ?
let curItem=$w('#dynamicDataset').getCurrentItem();
console.log("Current-Item: ", curItem);
So, now we can make it DYNAMIC, right? —> RIGHT !!!
$w('#dataset1').setFieldValue("carModel", xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx);
Continue… (replace the xxxxx and make it dynamic).
