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Clearing out financial dimension form control values

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I have a custom dialog form with a control attached to HcmEmployment.DefaultDimension. The form works as expected to allow selection of the individual dimension. However, when the form is brought up in subsequent runs, the previous financial dimension values are populated. How can I clear those values to allow the user to start from a clean form?

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Hoping for some feedback on this. Thanks
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Martin Dráb 240,785 Most Valuable Professional on at

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You seem to be saying that your form (unlike usual dialogs) uses a data source and you have a control bound to a table field. Therefore what you see in the form is a record in HcmEmployment table. You told us nothing about the purpose of your form, but the fact that you expect empty values suggests that you probably want to start with a new, empty record, instead of an existing record. If so, you can create a new record (by create() method of the data source) when opening the form.
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Hi Martin,

Pardon the lack of details. For reasons I won't go into, I'm creating HcmWorker based on input from this form through code. For the HcmEmployment record, I need to gather the financial dimension values. I found it easiest to include the HcmEmployment datasource so I can just pull in the defaultdimension onto the form. Would appreciate it if there's a better option that wouldn't require the datasource. Thank you.
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I proceeded with Martin's suggestion to use the create() method on HcmEmployment for a new record without any defaultdimension value. It clears the values on the form. However, because it is creating a new HcmEmployment record, I get errors requiring Worker and Company. My custom form will be responsible for creating the worker (and accompanying employment, dirpersonname, position) through code so there is no worker to assign to HcmEmployment at this point. Not sure it's appropriate to pivot the question on this post, but is it possible to include the financial dimensions into the form without linking it to a datasource? I probably will add a new post just in case changing the nature of the question is bad form.

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You get errors when you try to save the record, but you don't want to save it anyway, therefore even the attempt is a bug. If you want to use a data source, you should avoid saving (by overriding write() and validateWrite() method of the DS and not calling super() there).

But yes, you can use unbound controls. Dialog typically don't have data sources.
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Thank you, Martin. Would you be open to providing some details on how to add an unbound financial dimension control?
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I don't have time to cover all the options; we can discuss it next week if needed. But one example you can look at is AssetTransferMassUIBuilder. There they don't need a modeled form at all, as usual with dialogs. The default dialog is generated from the contract class and modified by the UI builder class.
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My dialog utilizes a form pattern. Not sure if the AssetTransferMassUIBuilder can be utilized but I will review it.

I would appreciate any further advice you're able to share. Thank you.
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Then you need to add a DimensionEntry control to your form.

Here someone suggested that you need a specialization of the control, but I don't think it's necessary. I would have to try it and I don't have time at the moment.

It'll help if actually try to add the unbound control and explain your particular problem if you run into any, instead of waiting for others.
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When you say form is opening with previous values, is the default dimension already filled? If yes, how is it getting filled?

As Martin suggested, you can follow the SalesTable form approach and create a Dimension Entry control.