SearchList clearing Batch fields

Steven Finnell

I'm hoping someone might have an idea what might be going on. We've recently run into an issue where if someone uses a SearchList in a batch we put together that it wipes out data in some of the batch fields (example is FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME fields) and doesn't show a value in the field associated with the SearchList (in this case CONSTITUENTID). We're using an out of the box SearchList that we've used before (Constituent Search by Name or Lookup ID) and in other circumstances works as it should. There is no UI model associated with the Batch Add or Batch Edit forms and there are no EventHandlers referenced in the BatchTypeSpec.

Does anyone have any clue what could be the cause of this issue?

Thanks in advance

Steven Finnell

@Dalda Brown,

I appreciate you replying and trying to help out and was wondering if you didn't mind clarifying what you meant when you said to check if there conflicts between the field mappings. This is the context I'm currently using the SearchList in:

I wouldn't think that my other FormFields would have any impact on how the search functions here as it's just to grab a singular column value. I'm also currently not using CONSTITUENTID as a parameter to populate any of the other FormFields. As for checking to see if the SearchList clears the parent container, I set up a separate TEST batch with a couple of the same fields in it (FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME, CONSTITIUENTID) and it does not clear the row when using the Search to select a different Constituent.

Steven Finnell

So after doing some experimentation it seems that the issue might be due to me using CONSTITUENTID as the EditLoadField in my BatchTypeSpec, as when I went and replaced that with a new field I was getting the expected behavior. I'm not sure if this is the true cause or not but it at least fixes my issue. I changed this:

to this:

Crystal Bruce

@Steven Finnell I think Dalda was a spammer. She had a suspicious link in her reply. I'm sorry!

Steven Finnell

@Crystal Bruce, haha no worries it happens.