Business rule for compare data in form

Question

Hi all,
Let us explain my scenario,
I have 2 dynamic calc members in a dataform. I just want to compare those 2 member rows( data compare) and show some message.
is there any way i can make?
can i create one business rule to make this happend? is it possible? If its possible can you give me your thoughts on this.
Any information would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sorry about that . . . . I read the first post and assumed the code was related to a business rule instead of JavaScript - should have looked closer.
I would do a couple of things:
1) Simplify your code. Why have a separate function? Why not drop all the logic into validateForm?
2) Why haven't you populated the app name and form name in validateForm? (sorry if I missed this in the rest of the post somewhere)
3) Insert alerts within the code that cycles through the cells. Something like this:
cellVal = getCellValueXY(col,row);
alert(" Column: " + col + "\n" +
" Row: " + row + "\n" +
" Cell Value: " + cellVal);
This will tell you exactly how your JavaScript is evaluating each cell. This can help when you're dealing with floating point decimal issues. (you entered 10, but it's being evaluated as 10.00000001) If this ends up being your issue (floating point issues), let me know and I'll show you how to get around this.
If you throw enough alerts at this code, your issue will finally show itself.
4) I wouldn't assign values to "startCol" and "numberGridCols". I believe these variables are set elsewhere in the code (not in YOUR code, but in EnterData.js or somewhere else).
Instead, I would use my own variables
5) I would structure the code more like this: (I haven't validated this or tested it . . . . use this for suggestion purposes only)
function validateForm()
var valid = true;
var c;
if (equalsIgnoreCase(applicationName,"PUT YOUR APP NAME HERE")) {
if (equalsIgnoreCase(formName,"PUT YOUR FORM NAME HERE")) {
for (c=3; c<numCols; c++) {
if((grid23[c] != missing) || (grid24[c] != missing)) {
var actualVal = getCellVal(23,c);
var budgetVal = getCellVal(24,c);
if(actualVal != budgetVal){
valid = false;
if (!validated) {
alert("The numbers you have submitted for SII are not equal to Actuals. Please adjust your numbers.\n");
return valid;
I hope this helps. Hopefully there aren't too many bugs in this.
- Jake