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Why we cannot open the form part by use form.getFormPart('***').openFormPart() when the form part is set to remote form part?

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i have two form (HostFormForm, ChildForm), one form is main form, another is as a formpart form of main form.

and i set the Run mode of form part as Remote.

now i design a test case which need open the remote form part to test, but it cannot be opened and have a error.

i can not find some info about remote formpart, if you know please tell me why cannot open it? what can i do ?

public void test_Remote_on()
{
    using (var form = FormPartRuntimeStylesTest_HostFormFormAdaptor::open())
    {
        form.setEditMode(false);
        FormPartAdaptor fpa = form.getFormPart('PartRemote');
        using (var partForm = fpa.OpenFormPart())
        {
            // test content
        }
    }
}

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Pete Alberts 3,542 on at

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I think mr Drab wrote something about this on his blog...

In any case. I am reasonably sure that you can't access or handle the form part from code if you set it to running remote. If I were you I'd set the form part control to local.

And then I took a screenshot of some code I wrote a while back, to handle a form part (set to run "local"):

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Hi, Pete. i know that we can handle a form part from code if we set it to running local. but why we cannot handle it with remote from code? i cannot find any document about it, can you please show me the blog or explain it ?

because the test code can passed before, but now it failed in remote form part,

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I think remote means it runs in a different session. Which moves the question away from "why not?" to "how would that be possible?". I first encountered this with Tiles.

Nevertheless, the point is you can't. Well at least without some sort of high-tech, next-gen type of solution :)

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Oh and it seems like Martin Drab's site is down. But here is a post from Palle Agermarks on the subject. It also mentions the thing about sessions.

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