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idPrefix Option: Prefix is included as part of ID with showlink formatter

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idPrefix Option: Prefix is included as part of ID with showlink formatter

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December 4, 2012 at 12:31 am #80528

Inara
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I recently started trying to use the idPrefix option for grids to avoid duplicate row IDs, but I found that it breaks the predefined showlink formatter, since the prefix isn't stripped off of the ID before being appended to the URL. (For example, if I have a row with ID 3 and an idPrefix of 'Event_', the url gets “id=Event_3” appended to it, instead of the desired “id=3”.) Does anyone have a solution (or even a temporary workaround) for this issue?
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December 4, 2012 at 10:18 am #100474

tony
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Hello,

Thanks for this. Fixed in GitHub. Please let me know if everthing is working fine.

Kind Regards

December 4, 2012 at 6:52 pm #100482

Inara
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Thanks for getting to this so quickly, Tony. I had one other question (which I supppose is more of a feature request than a bug, if it's not already possible): Is there any way to pass a data/column value other than the row ID with the showLink formatter, or would I need to create a custom formatter for that?

December 5, 2012 at 10:20 am #100486

tony
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Hello,

You can use addParam to add additional parameter.

See docs here

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December 5, 2012 at 11:13 am #100488

tony
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Hello,

Correction – sorry. You will need to use a custom formatter in your case.

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December 5, 2012 at 1:17 pm #100489

OlegK
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@Inara: You can use dynamicLink formatter if you want. See the answer

December 5, 2012 at 6:23 pm #100491

Inara
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Thanks, Oleg. I'll definitely look into your plugin; it looks like it may be exactly what I need. I appreciate both of your responses.

February 12, 2013 at 9:15 pm #100713

Inara
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I just ran across one further issue with the idPrefix option: The getDataIDs method has no option for excluding the prefix. It's not the end of the world, since I can write a manual workaround each time I call getDataIDs, but it's still an easy way to get tripped up in coding. Would it be possible to add a parameter to the getDataIDs function to get the IDs back sans prefix (or just make that the default, if there are no real use-case scenarios for including the prefix)?

EDIT: After experimenting more, I found that this issue is actually more of a general problem with all of the grid methods relating to row IDs. Most of them still expect to receive the row ID including the prefix for a parameter, and return the row ID including prefix as a result (where applicable). I can still write workarounds where necessary, but it makes the idPrefix attribute difficult to work with if you're building anything other than a very basic grid.

Thanks,

Inara

February 13, 2013 at 3:14 pm #100715

tony
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Hello,

Thank you for yor investigations.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards
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