Request Offerings and pasting Images - possible Solution

Roland_Kind

Hello,

based on the idea of @John_doyle --> https://community.cireson.com/discussion/2595/transforming-the-grid-picker/p1

I have created a small script to enable pasting of Images inside the request offerings and converting them to attachments.

Use a RO configuration like this (please note: the field following the @Editor tag, will be used to store the text - this field should be used for mappings)

Mapping example:

This will give you a RO shown here:

The Images which are pasted to the text area, are converted to an attachment and will be added to the RO - to preserve the info, where the Image was located within the text, a reference is added to the text (e.g. image1.png) . The saved IR looks like this:

Please note:

this was just tested with IE/Edge but no other browsers in a Windows10 test environment / latest 2016 version of the Portal 8.2.x

to test/use this, just add the contents of the zip file to your custom.js :-)

Tony_Collett

This is great. Thanks for providing the script!

Tom_Hendricks

I cannot wait to test this out.  It supports some great use cases, potentially.

Roland_Kind

Hi,

just a small update: will now handle "required" fields, too and in addition to that,

made a quick check with Firefox and Chrome - both Browsers seems to be working, too.

regards

Andrew_Reiter

Roland, are you still using this customization?  I am trying it out and it seems to be working great.  One issue I'm running into is it seems to fail anytime the request offering has a query results field.  I'm not using the advanced grid picker that you reference in your original post.  We are on portal version 8.10.0.2016.

Here is the error:

jquery.min.js?v=8100:2 jQuery.Deferred exception: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
    at init.paste (https://serverfqdn/CustomSpace/custom.js?v=8100:2988:89)
    at init.trigger (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/kendo.all.min.js?v=8100:25:6833)
    at init._triggerPaste (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/kendo.all.min.js?v=8100:63:14167)
    at init.<anonymous> (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/kendo.all.min.js?v=8100:63:14834)
    at i (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/jquery.min.js?v=8100:2:104075)
    at u (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/jquery.min.js?v=8100:2:33504)
    at fireWith (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/jquery.min.js?v=8100:2:34457)
    at l (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/jquery.min.js?v=8100:2:36164)
    at c (https://serverfqdn/Scripts/kendo/2018.1.117/jquery.min.js?v=8100:2:36209) undefined

This is the line reference in custom.js

numOfAttachments = $('[data-role=grid]').data('kendoGrid').dataSource.transport.data.length + 1;

Andrew_Reiter

As an addition to my findings, it seems this error occurs only when the attachments field comes after any query results field, regardless of page configuration(ARO).  This is due to data-role=grid for both field types.  I'm trying to figure out a way to single out the attachments field, but my lack of js/Kendo knowledge isn't helping.

Andrew_Reiter

I found the solution.  You have to update 2 lines.

numOfAttachments = $('[data-role=grid]').data('kendoGrid').dataSource.transport.data.length + 1;

to

numOfAttachments = $('[data-kendo-control=grid]').data('kendoGrid').dataSource.transport.data.length + 1;

and

$('[data-role=grid]').data('kendoGrid').dataSource.add(json.FileAttachment);

to

$('[data-kendo-control=grid]').data('kendoGrid').dataSource.add(json.FileAttachment);

data-kendo-control=grid is only picking up the attachments field, at least as far as I can tell from my testing with different fields.