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OK, it's time to address the blank variables in forms and how its handled

asked on April 5, 2017 Show version history

For years I have been running into the error in forms '' is an invalid expanded name, which is a cryptic way of saying you need to set variable names for all fields.

Recently though I run into this in almost every single forms training. In each case, there is one field without a variable name, even though we did not set variables for any fields on the form. The field could be a radio button, or a multi-line, or a field within a table. It appears to be random, but the system selects one single field to give a blank variable name.

I would really like a Save button to verify that no variables are left blank before we run the task. A Save button would be really nice anyways just so that we can Save our form while working on it and don't lose any data.

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replied on April 6, 2017

We have figured out in which case the blank variable name will be generated: the issue may happen when the focus is in the field label input but refresh the page or close the tab. The fix will be released with coming 10.2.1.

For save button, we are considering adding save button along with the current auto save functionality in BPM server.

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replied on April 7, 2017

Thanks! A Save button would be really helpful. The auto save just saves to local cache, not to the database.

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replied on April 9, 2017

The auto save does save to database, each auto save request will save the form data in the json_data column of the cf_forms table temporally, and when you refresh the page or navigate to another page, it will parse the data in json_data and save them in corresponding columns.

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replied on April 10, 2017

Ok, I thought it was saved in the browser. You still need to click on something in order to save from time to time though. I save every 10 minutes by clicking on the field rules button. I found that working on a form for too long, like over 20 minutes, can timeout and lose all the temporary data even though it says saved 1 second ago. It's like the auto save isn't sending a new update to IIS.

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