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I don't understand the inner workings of cfv6 when loading a form to edit a record. In previous versions it was pretty straight forward. Now I'm disappointed, probably my fault, because I don't see a consistent way to access the record data.

I followed the manual and used a Read Data action to load a record (First matching record, model name: myRecord).
In the Display Section action Data provider -> {var:read_data20.myRecord}.
Now I expected to find the record data in the data object (the old style: $this->data) but...
In an HTML object in the designer I put:

{data.pr:myRecord}
<?php pr($this->data); ?>
<?php pr($this->data['myRecord']); ?>

The 1st line prints nothing.
The 2nd one prints

    [option] => com_chronoforms6
    [chronoform] => evento
    ...

but not my record data.
The 3rd one gives an undefined index: myRecord.
Anyway some of the fields (let's say the standard input elements) are populated. Other elements are not.
E.g.:
- in a Calendar in the html code I can see that the value attribute is assigned but the displayed input element is blank.
In the properties of the calendar I added something to the Value property.
{data:myRecord.myDataField} or {var:read_data20.myRecord.myDataField} do not work, the calendar is still empty.
- in a repeater I expected to use something like {data:myRecord.myrepeaterField} as a Data Provider, but I found out I had to use {var:read_data20.myRecord.myrepeaterField}.
- It is very simple to json encode the repeater values (Save Data action in Data override on Insert):
myrepeaterField:{data.jsonen:myrepeaterField}, but json decode it in the read data action is very different, the only working solution I found is a php action with the following code:
$this->set("read_data20.myRecord.myrepeaterField", json_decode($this->get("read_data20.myRecord.myrepeaterField"), true));

Since all that messes up the code and simplicity of cf, there must be something I'm doing wrong or that I don't understand.
Can somebody help?

Thank you
maxx

Trying to solve the calendar problem I tried to set the values using javascript. The problem is that the calendar seems to be initialised after the jQuery ready event.

I put my code in the ready event:

jQuery("#mycalendar").calendar('set date', '2017-12-25');

I put a breakpoint at that line and one at the libraries/cegcore2/xyz.js file

				$(calfield).closest('.field').calendar({
					startMode : $(calfield).data('startmode'),
					type : $(calfield).data('type'),

The code stops 1st at my code and then at the cegcore2 code.

Is that right?

maxx

I didn't list checkboxes and found out the answer in the ccv6 forum 🙄



If you want to reload a checkboxes field you have to list the field in the Special fields attribute of the Read Data action. Use the following format:

fieldName/json

Not in the manual... :mrgreen:

maxx