[SandBirdParticipant]

Answering my own post but just in case someone is looking for a solution, I have managed to solve the aforementioned challenge by using columntype: 'custom' together with combination of createEditor with a select event on the jqxDropDownList. In the select event I do endcelledit and then setcellvalue.

I think using the custom cause it not to loop because it creates a unique id tag (using row index as suffix).

I tested it vigorously and so far I didn’t encounter any of the problems I mentioned before and it works as expected.

[SandBirdParticipant]

Hello Peter,

I apologize to revive this yet again but since I also encountered the same issue I wanted to ask about it.

Following the examples on the site (and then some), I have the following validation check (simplified version):

validateEverPresentRowWidgetValue: function (datafield, value) {
					switch (datafield) {
						case "name":
							if (value.length == 0) {
								message = "Name field must be bigger than 0 characters";
							} else if (value.length > 45) {
								message = "Name field must be smaller than 45 characters";
							} else if (value.replace(/\s/g, "") === "") {
								message = "Please enter a valid input";
							} else {
								$.ajax({
									...some ajax code where variable uniqueValData
									is assigned an appropriate value if entered value is unique.
								});
								if (uniqueValData !== 0) {
									message = "This value already exists, please enter a unique value";
								} else {
									return true;
								}
							}
							notification("error", message, "#dataGrid"); //built-in function to utilize jqxNotification
							return { message: message, result: false };
						break;
					}
					return true;
				}

The problem, as the previous users noted, is that this it runs twice on the same editor. In the case above the function will iterate twice for the “name” editor – I know this because I get two notification prompts.
Shouldn’t the function run only once? or at least per the switch (datafield) it should only validate once for the “name” editor. Otherwise I see it goes twice also to the database to check (I see two same consecutive ajax calls) which I don’t see a reason to.

You mentioned (in post #74421) that ” Otherwise, you can add own custom validation logic and do not use our validation functions.” I am unsure if you are referring to something else than the above and if so I would appreciate if you can please share or point to where I can see how to do that.

Thank you for your time clearing the confusion about this.

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