Submitted by Armando on 2010/06/02 19:20
As I said, this popup appears quite often in my DB, even when the conditional criteria seems to be valid.
 
 
But I think I know why : sometimes , a field appears in a grid, but the condition isn't there in the grid (remember : this is a limitation/feature of the conditional formatting : the field-condition needs to be present as a column  in the grid for the  conditional format to work)
 
So, taking the example in the screenshot : the Followup field will be formatted only if the zzSQLNRequest columns/field is present in the grid. However, it's not always there in all grids, hence the error.
 
In these cases, I think that the popup shouldn't appear.

Confirmation please ?
 
(BTW, I now like the conditional format's limitation as it allows me to decide when I want special formatting for a specific field in a grid or not... Note that this could probably be of course controlled at the grid level, but since it's not... what's a limitation became a feature to me! :) )
 
 

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OK. I've added the following to the popup:
 
" or makes reference to a field which is not displayed in the grid."
 

Armando

2010/06/15 17:18

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[quote=Pierre_Admin]
OK. I've added the following to the popup:
 
" or makes reference to a field which is not displayed in the grid."
 
[/quote]
 
Ok, cool. I was going to suggest not having any pop-up for the situations where the condition "makes reference to a field which is not displayed in the grid" (as I actually use this limitation a a feature -- so that I can decide when formatting works or not in a grid by omitting certain columns) but this would be unfriendly, I guess.
 
Note that a "grid specific" conditional formatting would be absolutely excellent. But I guess this is a grid component thing ?