More Database Form Functions with HTML - The addRow() function
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The addRow() function puts the form into the add-mode. It clears the text Input controls. It disables the following buttons: Edit, Delete, Find, and Sort. It increments the variable for the total number of rows. The new row will be added at the end of the recordset. So the total number of rows, including the one being added is equal to the new row’s position (last in recordset). These numbers (position and total) are displayed at the top-right area of the form. Lastly, the function frees the Input controls for typing.
Note: it is not the addRow() function that adds the row to the recordset or the Transmitted Table. As I said above, clicking any of the enabled buttons triggers that.
After you complete typing the row values in the form, you may wish to type in another row. This means that you have to click the Add button again. If you do this, it means the addRow() function has to complete the adding process by sending the data of the first added row on the form to the recordset and Transmission table. So before the addRow() function does anything, it first checks if you are to add another row (you have clicked the Add button again) just after adding a previous one. It does this by verifying whether the addMode variable is true. If it is, the function completes the Add process. In the completion process, it calls relevant functions and then resets the addMode variable to false.
It is possible that you might come to the add-mode (i.e. click the Add button just after typing in information in the edit-mode). So the addRow() function, at the beginning, checks if the edit-mode variable is true. If it is, the function completes the Edit process and resets the editMode variable to true.
After making the above two verifications, the addRow() function proceeds in its normal fashon. This is the code:
function addRow()
{
//adding 2nd, 3rd or more times, i.e. addMode is already true
if (addMode == true)
{
addRowToRecordset();
//after adding, you must go out of the addMode, so reset the addMode variable
addMode = false;
makeReadOnlyInputControls();
}
//edit any row of the recordset that might have been edited at the form
if (editMode == true)
{
editRowToRecordset();
//after adding, you must go out of the editMode, so reset the editMode variable
editMode = false;
makeReadOnlyInputControls();
//enable the buttons, Edit, Delete, Clear, Find, Sort.
enableButtons('E1','D1','C1','F1','So1');
}
addMode = true;
clearControls();
//disable the buttons, Edit, Delete, Find and Sort
disableButtons('E1','D1','F1','So1');
//increment the total number of rows variable
numberOfRows+=1;
//show the data row number (position) and total number of rows
document.getElementById('RowPosition').value = numberOfRows;
document.getElementById('TNumberRows').value = numberOfRows;
//make input controls write-able
makeWriteInputControls();
}
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