Expression Help (Action Behavior)

[Jonathan_S]

Hey guys,

Having a little trouble here.

Im trying to disable all actions once an entry has been marked complete.
Same as this pretty much,

Don't edit children when parent is marked "finished" Questions

Another thing you can do, but this depends on the initial setup of your data, would be if you were to use an EnumList real column of base Ref to your children. In that case you could change the Editable property to something like NOT([Finished]).

Im looking at my Receiving Table and checking if the column [Complete] is blank. isblank([Complete])

Table Setup

Parent Table
Receiving Table
— Action Formula ----
isblank([Complete]) This works

Child Table
Form Items Displays
— Action Formula —
isblank([Recieving Forms].[complete]) Partly works in the details views etc, (Disables Edits) but not adds in the inline view. The new button is still visible. (Bottom right hand side) See below.

Grand Child Table
Display Lot Numbers
— Action Formula—

isblank
(LookUp(
LookUp(
[id],“Form items Displays”,“id”,“Recieving Forms”)
,“Recieving Forms”,“id”,“Complete”
)
)

instead of this large loops within loops above, I’ve also tried expresions like
isblank([Form items Displays].[Recieving Forms].[complete])

This doesn’t work at all. First expression is valid but doesn’t work.

Any input would be appreciated.

[Marc_Dillon]

Disabling the adding of child records per parent record is tough. One way I’ve done it in the past is to make two slices of the child records that are identical, but one doesn’t allow adds/updates. When [complete] is marked, it hides the ref list of one slice, and shows the other.

Jonathan_S:

isblank([Form items Displays].[Recieving Forms].[complete])

This is called dereferencing a dereference, and is not allowed. You’ll have to create a column in the middle table to hold the first dereference ([Receiving Forms].[complete], so that in the grandchild you just dereference to that ([form items displays].[new column]).

[Jonathan_S]

Marc_Dillon:

Disabling the adding of child records per parent record is tough. One way I’ve done it in the past is to make two slices of the child records that are identical, but one doesn’t allow adds/updates. When [complete] is marked, it hides the ref list of one slice, and shows the other.

Could you explain that a little more? So Ive created all identical slices that are read only. Just not sure how you would display one or another based on the complete columns in Receiving.

Ive Tried this in my recieving form where the referance is. Formula is valid but whether an item is complete or not, I can still Add Stuff.

IF(isblank([complete]), 
REF_ROWS("ReOrder Display Form", "Recieving Forms"), 
REF_ROWS("ReOrder Display Form No Edits", "Recieving Forms"))

[Marc_Dillon · Accepted solution]

Try to instead make two separate ref_rows columns, and enter a show_if formula for both based on complete.

[Jonathan_S]

This seems to work for some reason. Thank you Marc!!!

This just opened an entire new path for me in app sheet knowledge.