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Expand/Collapse Rows in a Tree Grid

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Goal

Create a grid that shows hierarchical data and allows users to dynamically expand and collapse rows within the grid.

a screenshot of a tree grid inside an editable grid

This scenario demonstrates:

  • How to use the rich text display component inside an editable grid to create a tree grid.
  • How to use a rich text display component to create a dynamic link used to expand and collapse the rows in an editable grid.
  • How to create a rich text bulleted list within a rich text display component inside each collapsible row in the tree grid.

Setup

For this recipe, you'll need two Data Store Entities that are populated with data:

  1. Create a custom data type called PurchaseRequest with the following fields:
    • id (Number (Integer))
    • summary (Text)
  2. Designate the id field as the primary key and set to generate value.
  3. Save and publish the CDT.
  4. Create a custom data type called PurchaseRequestItem with the following fields:
    • id (Number (Integer))
    • summary (Text)
    • qty (Number (Integer))
    • unitPrice (Number (Decimal))
    • purchaseRequest (PurchaseRequest)
  5. Designate the id field as the primary key and set to generate value.
  6. Save and publish the CDT.
  7. Create a Data Store called "Purchase Request" with two entities, one of each data type that was just created:
    • PurchaseRequests (PurchaseRequest)
    • PurchaseRequestItems (PurchaseRequestItem)

  8. Insert the following values into PurchaseRequest:

    id summary
    1 PR 1
    2 PR 2

  9. Insert the following values into PurchaseRequestItem:

    id summary qty unitPrice purchaseRequest.id
    1 Item 1 2 10 1
    2 Item 2 3 50 1
    3 Item 3 1 100 1
    4 Item 4 3 75 2
    5 Item 5 10 25 2

Now that we have the data, let's create a couple of supporting constants:

  • PR_ENTITY: A constant of type Data Store Entity with value PurchaseRequests.
  • PR_ITEM_ENTITY: A constant of type Data Store Entity with value PurchaseRequestItems.

Now that we have created all of the supporting objects, let's move on to the main expression.

Expression

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a!localVariables(
  local!prs: a!queryEntity(
    entity: cons!PR_ENTITY,
    query: a!query(
      /* To return all fields, leave the selection parameter blank. `*/
      /*`If you are not displaying all fields, use the selection    `*/
      /*` parameter to only return the necessary fields              */
      pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(startIndex: 1, batchSize: -1)
    )
  ).data,
  local!items: a!queryEntity(
    entity: cons!PR_ITEM_ENTITY,
    query: a!query(
      pagingInfo: a!pagingInfo(startIndex: 1, batchSize: -1)
    )
  ).data,
  a!gridLayout(
    headerCells: {
      a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Summary"),
      a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Qty", align: "RIGHT"),
      a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Unit Price", align: "RIGHT"),
      a!gridLayoutHeaderCell(label: "Total Price", align: "RIGHT")
    },
    columnConfigs: {
      a!gridLayoutColumnConfig(width: "DISTRIBUTE", weight: 4),
      a!gridLayoutColumnConfig(width: "DISTRIBUTE"),
      a!gridLayoutColumnConfig(width: "DISTRIBUTE", weight: 2),
      a!gridLayoutColumnConfig(width: "DISTRIBUTE", weight: 2)
    },
    rowHeader: 1,
    rows: a!forEach(
      items: local!prs,
      expression: a!localVariables(
        local!expanded: false,
        local!itemsForPr: index(
          local!items,
          /* Must cast to integer because a!queryEntity() returns a dictionary */
          wherecontains(tointeger(fv!item.id), local!items.purchaseRequest.id), 
          {}
        ),
        local!totalPrice: sum(
          a!forEach(
            items: local!itemsForPr, 
            expression: 
            tointeger(fv!item.qty) * todecimal(fv!item.unitPrice)
          )
        ),
        {
          a!gridRowLayout(
            contents: {
              a!richTextDisplayField(
                label: "Summary " & fv!index,
                value: {
                  if(
                    length(local!itemsForPr)=0,
                    fv!item.summary,
                    a!richTextItem(
                      text: if(local!expanded, "-", "+") &" "& fv!item.summary,
                      link: a!dynamicLink(
                        value: not(local!expanded),
                        saveInto: local!expanded
                      )
                    )
                  )
                }
              ),
              a!textField(
                label: "Qty " & fv!index,
                readOnly: true
              ),
              a!textField(
                label: "Unit Price " & fv!index,
                readOnly: true
              ),
              a!textField(
                label: "Total Price " & fv!index,
                value: a!currency(
                  isoCode: "USD",
                  value: local!totalPrice
                ),
                readOnly: true,
                align: "RIGHT"
              )
            }
          ),
          if(
            local!expanded,
            a!forEach(
              items: local!itemsForPr,
              expression: a!gridRowLayout(contents: {
                a!richTextDisplayField(
                  label: "Item Summary " & fv!index,
                  value: a!richTextBulletedList(
                    items: fv!item.summary
                  )
                ),
                a!integerField(
                  label: "Item Qty " & fv!index,
                  value: fv!item.qty,
                  readOnly: true,
                  align: "RIGHT"
                ),
                a!textField(
                  label: "Item Unit Price " & fv!index,
                  value: a!currency(
                    isoCode: "USD",
                    value: fv!item.unitPrice)
                    ,
                  readOnly: true,
                  align: "RIGHT"
                ),
                a!textField(
                  label: "Item Total Price " & fv!index,
                  value: a!currency(
                    isoCode: "USD",
                    value: tointeger(fv!item.qty) * todecimal(fv!item.unitPrice)
                  ),
                  readOnly: true,
                  align: "RIGHT"
                )
              })
            ),
            {}
          )
        }
      )
    )
  )
)

Test it out

  1. Click on + PR 1 in the Summary column to expand to show the item rows corresponding to PR 1.
  2. Click on - PR 1 to hide the item rows for PR 1 again.
  3. The same can be done for PR 2.

Notable implementation details

  • Notice that we used a rich text display component to create a dynamic link used to expand and collapse the item rows for each purchase request. Alternatively, we could have used a link component containing the same dynamic link. The rich text display component would be useful here if a rich text style (e.g. underline) needed to be applied to the purchase request summary or if the summary needed to be a combination of links and normal text.
  • The bullet appearing in front of each item summary is made possible by using a rich text bulleted list within a rich text display component. See also: Rich Text
  • We left the selection parameter blank in our a!query()function because we wanted to return all fields of the entities that we were querying.

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