topic Form Fitlers or Behaviour in a Datalist in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270161#M223291 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have defined a custom datalist where I have some fields that I want to get calculated from the others.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>i.e. I have a duration (in days - int value) field that's get calculated with the startdate and duedate fields.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>In order to do that I tried to use a form filter like they mention in this post, it is pretty much the same I am needing</SPAN><BR /><A href="http://www.boulderhopkins.com/2010/10/creating-calculated-datalist-columns-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.boulderhopkins.com/2010/10/creating-calculated-datalist-columns-in.html</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The datalist have many properties (36 properties), many are going to be updated directly through the datalist page and for the others I am trying to figure out how to update some values from a custom workflow.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What would you recommend me, a form filter or a behaviour approach in order to get automatic updates on certain fields?</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I am using Share as the repository client, there been some changes in the JAVA Api of the AbstractFilter class, I am using 3.4d</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:02:33 GMT acurs 2011-12-14T21:02:33Z Form Fitlers or Behaviour in a Datalist https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270161#M223291 Hi,I have defined a custom datalist where I have some fields that I want to get calculated from the others.i.e. I have a duration (in days - int value) field that's get calculated with the startdate and duedate fields.In order to do that I tried to use a form filter like they mention in this post, i Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:02:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270161#M223291 acurs 2011-12-14T21:02:33Z Re: Form Fitlers or Behaviour in a Datalist https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270162#M223292 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Use the form filters. Then you don't even need to specify those calculated field in your content model. You can just dynamically add them on to the form with in your form filter.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:05:30 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270162#M223292 matjazmuhic 2011-12-16T08:05:30Z Re: Form Fitlers or Behaviour in a Datalist https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270163#M223293 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>thanks, I will try to make the fields definitions for adding it dinamically to the form…</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:21:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/form-fitlers-or-behaviour-in-a-datalist/m-p/270163#M223293 acurs 2011-12-18T21:21:20Z