Jsgrid: readOnly text field cannot be modified by script

[RevealedFrom]

I have a field as follows:

{ name: "UpdatedBy", type: "text", "Updated By", readOnly: true }

and I want to fill it with the id of the user updating it:

onItemUpdating: function(args) { args.item.UpdatedBy = "xxxx"; }

I put a breakpoint and find that, on subsequent hits after the first, the variable args.item.UpdatedBy contains my value I updated at the first onItemUpdating event. However, the grid does not show this value.

Is this by design? Can readOnly fields be modified by script?

[richraid21]

onItemUpdating is simply a callback that passes the item by value.

In order to modify the data in the grid, you need to go about doing it a different way:

onItemUpdating: function(args){
          var grid = args.grid
          grid.data[args.itemIndex].LastModified = new Date()
          grid.refresh()
        },

See a working example here

[RevealedFrom]

Beautiful! Thanks.

Another question: onItemUpdating fires when the editing is done, ie green tick is clicked. Is there an event that fires upon entering into edit mode?

[richraid21]

@RevealedFrom onItemEditing should work