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Current List of Groove Custom Form Bugs/Features

Form and Form Designer errors

1. Date fields are incorrectly initialised - the workaround MUST be followed.  Ensure you create default dates for ALL date fields.

2. When using the API Navigatoform(), you should always validate the format of the parameters by mutlipling by 1.  Use  app.Navigatoform( formID * 1 , recordID * 1).  Note the ‘*1’.  Failure to do this will cause errors when using the form with NON US international settings.

See Feedback: Groove Forms Error

3. Lookups refresh each time a new value is picked - a workaround available.

4. Lookups fail to be registered correctly and no values are returned when using (some) international keyboards.

5. Contact fields are not correctly initialised and are also field values cannot be deleted - workaround available.

6. When creating higlhy complex parent-child relationships (3 levels deep) propogation fails - workaround available. If you see this bug then you must be a serious Groove developer. See the Microsoft Time Recording tool coming out soon for an example of complex parent-child relationships….

7. When debugging using VS Groove stops responding - kill Groove and restart Groove. :=)

8. When you have one identity on two machines, when you exit the Designer.. you do not leave the designer…..! Spooky. The changes have been saved - you are just in in Groove never, never land. Press cancel and all will be ok.

9. DO NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT - use duplicate field! It will corrupt the design database. DO NOT USE duplicate. UNDERSTAND!

10. DO NOT. DO NOT. Delete scripts from the left hand pane in the designer. Delete and add script from a for TAB. DO NOT delete from the left hand pane. UNDERSTAND! As you will be left in the Groove never, never land.

11. Do not use AUTOCREATE for all roles in a form and also set the TOOL permissions so GUESTS cannot create a form. This has a different result from leaving YOU in the Groove never, never land - it will leave the GUESTS in the Groove never, never land.

12.When designed views an error message is issued ‘view deleted..’ ‘sorted deleted’… Workaround. ALWAYS select the form(s) you wish to view prior to setting any sorts. If you do not - you will pay the price!

Groove files tool

1. Files security loop hole. See this