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Sorry for the n00b question...but am I missing something? What's the easiest way to see if a grid has any records?

Thx 

Blake-

If you look at the grid and you don't see any rows then it is empty (Unless the data is filtered) .

You could also export the table the grid is based off using the Import / Export tool found under Customize > Intergration Tools, this exports the raw unfiltered data from the table

Why are wanting to see if a grid is empty? Maybe we can provide other suggestion as well.

-Michael 

Blake,

You are also able to see a record count in the grey area at the bottom of the grid.

Sorry. Should have given more context.

I'm deleting a current, active record (linked to a customer). There's a grid on the left showing other records for the current customer. If the deleted record represents the final record for that customer, I want to close the page and go elsewhere.

If there are still other records for that customer, I want to set the active record for that page to the first row in that grid.

I'm trying to create the necessary actions to do this. Easily determining if there are records in a grid would be nice and easier than what I'm trying to do now...which is get a value from screen (CustomerID) and query a table looking for results, then going from there.

Hope that makes sense...Thx

Update: I got it working. It ain't pretty, though.

Adding to my description in my previous post...

After deleting the active record, I wound up basically reloading the page. This page is passed a custom filter for the grid on the left, so I had to grab a couple items from the screen BEFORE deleting the active record, setting these items as Shared Results to pass to the page, and then 'reload' the page by showing the current Tab link again ensuring the view is filtered properly.

If the deleted active record is the last record for the customer, I detect that by querying the table and finding no results. In that case, I close the current Tab link and to go to another Tab link.

Here's a link to the screenshot of my actions - http://bit.ly/vOof2D

Blake C

You might try using Retreive Value From Table (select RecordID as the field)

Use the same where clause as the grid filter and instead of retreiving first get the count of records.

If the count is equal to zero then there are no records.

Could you just use a GetSum action that gets the sum of the RecordIDs in the grid?

If the sum is greater than 0 there are records, otherwise there are no records.

I haven't tried it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

Paul

@LaCrews

Yeah, that's what I wound up doing. This solution made more sense once I decided to just effectively load the tab again rather than mess with looking at a grid. Take a look at the link I posted to see the actions I wound up using.

Thx

@Method_Paul

At first I was doing that (do a SUM for records in the grid), but then I was faced with trying to manually select the first row in that grid so I just decided to load the tab again knowing this would be the easiest.

In the end, it was the easiest. Check the link in my post to see the actions I wound up using to get it done.

Thx