Group link issue with JHS 11.1.1.3.35

Question

Hi guys,
I've just upgraded our current project to JHeadstart 11.1.1.3.35. Well done on the release ! Each time I find myself needing less and less custom coding in templates :) My 2 favourite features are calling an AM method from a JHeadstart command button item as well as requery condition on entering task flow.
I've only come across one issue so far with the upgrade. I have a service that contains (among others) 2 groups that both look at a Locations datasource. The first group is in table view and the second group is a wizard that is hidden from the menu but accessed either via the new button from the table view going into insert mode, or by a hyperlink on a column on the table going to be wizard to update the record.
The hyperlink item is a groupLink type with the parameter rowKeyValueAdminLocationsWizard passing the PK to the deeplink managed bean.
The problem is with the generation of the DeepLinkParameters bean - it is creating a map entry for "createAdminLocationsWizard" setting it to true which is causing the wizard to always go into insert mode. When I compared the new DeepLinkParameters bean with a copy prior to the update, the only difference is the additon of
<map-entry id="__74">
<key id="__75">createAdminLocationsWizard</key>
<value id="__76">true</value>
</map-entry>
If I remove this from the DeepLinkParameters bean it works fine. In the groupAdfcConfig template you have
#if (${taskFlowCall.callGroup.startInCreateMode}!='')
<map-entry id="#NEW_ID("__")">
<key id="#NEW_ID("__")">create${taskFlowCall.callGroup.name}</key>
<value id="#NEW_ID("__")">${taskFlowCall.callGroup.startInCreateMode}</value>
</map-entry>
#end
Now the group I am calling does start in create mode but I don't want this parameter added to my DeepLinkParameters bean.
For now, I've created a custom groupAdfcConfig template and removed the above code.
Is there something else that I can be/should be doing to avoid the use of a custom template here ? Has the template changed here ?
** Of course it's not quite that easy ! Im also using the new groupLinkToolbarButton which uses the same DeepLinkParameters bean template code to create the "AdminLocationsLaunchLocationWizardDeepLinkParameters" managed bean and this *does" need the create parameter. One instance of it does and another doesn't - it is possible to distinguish between the two item types (groupLink and groupLinkToolbarButton) in the DeepLinkParameters bean perhaps ?
Cheers,
Brent
Edited by: Brent Harlow on Mar 24, 2011 4:56 PM

Answer 1

Brent,
Thanks for the kind words, I am glad you like and use the new features!
Regarding your issue: if you set the group property "Display New Row on Entry", we have chosen to always pass in the create mode parameter as this was expected by most customers: they call the group taskflow, and despite this setting on the grpup itself it does not show the new row, that was causing confusion.
Now, you want to make it dependent on the calling taskflow. You can do this by clearing the Display New Row on Entry property (or set it to false), and explicitly add the createAdminLocationsWizard parameter to the groupLink item that should start the wizard in create mode.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.