Smart Property Widget

[PreetiGupta]

I am trying to use smart property widget for displaying a fields which are dynamic. The display is coming inconsistent when GridMetaData JSON is fed through a service.

Wondering if anyone has used this widget from market place.

thanks,

Preeti

[liliu]

Hi Preeti,

Please tell us what's the Extension name that you download from the MarketPlace?

Lily

[PreetiGupta]

Hi Lily,

It is Smart Grid Property Widget from Thingworx lab.

thanks.

[posipova]

Could you please provide steps to reproduce, along with the expected result vs actual result? We will submit a jira if a defect is confirmed or if an improvement is making sense.

[liliu]

Hi Preeti,

Hope you had a nice weekend. Would you mind to share the service that you are using to return GridMetaData JSON string. As Polina asked, also provide us the detial reproduce steps.

Lily

[PreetiGupta]

Sorry about the late reply.

The GridMetaData service JSON is fed through a service. I am reading an infotable and based on the fields (which varies) the JSON output example is shown below... I want fields to get into two different groups. ( Required, Non Required)

result

{"SpecialInstructions":{"name":"Special Instructions","group":"Non-Required","baseType":"STRING"},"FloatVar":{"name":"FloatVar","group":"Required","baseType":"NUMBER"},"Justification":{"name":"Justification","group":"Non-Required","baseType":"STRING"},"WTPartCreated":{"name":"WTPart Created","group":"Required","baseType":"STRING"},"ReadOnlyVar":{"name":"ReadOnlyVar","group":"Non-Required","type":"label","baseType":"STRING"}}

There is no "Other" group defined in the service. But for some reason it completely bypass the JSON supplied through the service and shows the group Other which I think it is defaulting in the widget itself. The result is not consistent.

Though the widget UI looks good. But in my use case I can not use it as the display is not working consistently.

I do not know if I have to open a tech support call. Let me know.

thanks,

Preeti

[liliu]

Hi Preeti,

I just reproduced your issue when using a service to return the GridMetadata.

Somethings it looks like the first picture, but occasionally it shows me the second picture.

We will open a Jira ticket to R&D and ask for further help.

I checked the owner of this extension, it's from ThingWorx Lab, which is currently not supported by ThingWorx, I am afread that R&D may not response to this.

I also tested it by add your code in the Smart Grid Property widget  directly instead of using a service, it works fine. I suggest you to use this way first. And if there is any good news from R&D, I will let you know.

BR,

Lily

[PreetiGupta]

Yes. It is very inconsistent. Looks like the DOM in Thingworx is varying with every refresh.

I also tried with static JSON for GridMetaData and it worked. However JSON is dynamic for my use case so I could not use smart property widget.

For now what I did is to use two Dynamic Property widget where I am dynamically populating fields based on the grouping. I do not like this way. Since the UI does not look good.

If you find a fix for this that would be great. I probably have to look into how to modify this Smart Grid for my use case.

thanks for looking into this. I appreciate it.

Preeti

[AnnaAn]

Dear Gupta,

Is your issue resolved per the answers above? If any of the answers are correct or helpful, please mark it as Correct or Helpful.

Thanks,

Br,

Anna