Support Article

Pre-populating a row in Repeating grid

SA-29068

Summary

User has configured an activity to pre-fill row values in the repeating grid . But on clicking the add row in the repeating grid, the row is not getting added.

But on explicitly Refresh, could observe that empty row is getting added in the section.

Error Messages

Looking for instance Rule-Message SECTION 'XYZ' EXECUTION ERROR ON PAGE 'PYWORKPAGE' OF CLASS '<objclass>'. : FOR INPUT STRING: "" in the Rule Resolution cache

Steps to Reproduce

1) Configure a section, with a repeat grid.
2) In Operations tab, make it as inline > Click row to edit > Run activity on row add.

3) Configure an activity as below :
This will copy the value entered in the first row, to subsequent rows, on click of 'AddItem'

4) Run the flow

Resolution

In order to pre-populate:

1. Configure "Run activity after grid update" and in the activity have a step with When condition as param.gridAction == "INSERTAFTER"(refer @baseclass.pyPostGridUpdate first and second step) and in step add default values to the row. Activity runs on the newly added row context.

Since this option "Run activity after grid update" is not available in Pega 7.1.5, save-as "@baseclass.pyPostGridUpdate" into grid row class and set default value as in the below screenshot