Lookup Field in Mobile Version

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Dedy Satriyo

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Oct 31, 2023, 2:16:27 AM10/31/23
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Hello I'm new to this DB app and recently i tried Linked Entry and Look up Field feature. This feature works just find in Desktop version but when I tried using it in mobile version, I encountered a problem which the look up value doesn't show up in input form but it does show in the entri result. Can anyone please help me with this ?

Bill Crews

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Oct 31, 2023, 2:47:01 AM10/31/23
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I've been using Android Memento for 7 years, and that's just not what happens. Now, keep in mind that the field(s) labeled as entry name is/are displayed within the edit card, but in the view card, it is shown at the top, as the name identifies the entry. Some fields can also be labeled as hidden. There is also a provision to suppress the display of the field name in the card. Other than that, it just doesn't happen that way, unless you have found a bug in the app, though in the beta testing Memento, I can attest that the current release does not have such a bug.


On Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 2:16 AM Dedy Satriyo <satri...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello I'm new to this DB app and recently i tried Linked Entry and Look up Field feature. This feature works just find in Desktop version but when I tried using it in mobile version, I encountered a problem which the look up value doesn't show up in input form but it does show in the entri result. Can anyone please help me with this ?

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Dedy Satriyo

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Oct 31, 2023, 3:26:58 AM10/31/23
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Here are some pictures and db structures from the problem I encountered.
Table Owner :
ID
Name
----------------------------
Table Things
Thing
Owner Id (Linked Entri to Owner)
Name (Lookup Field Owner.Name)

Picture 1 I tried Inputting the data on Memento Desktop the Field Name shows Look up Value
Picture 2 I tried Inputting the data on Mobile Version But the Look up Value is blank
Thanks Mr. Bill I really do apreciate the help.
PIC 1.png
PIC 2.jpg

Bill Crews

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Oct 31, 2023, 11:21:56 AM10/31/23
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Again, it works for me. See the attached screenshots. Now, as I do it, I remember that the lookup happens on the save, not immediately. Is that your difficulty? If so, that's just how it works. You have to wait until you save to see the lookups.

Do my field definitions more or less match yours? I'm on Memento 5.1.1 beta.


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Todd Johnson

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Jun 8, 2025, 2:18:22 PM6/8/25
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I had been having this same problem.  Trying to do a lookup of a particular field, a link to entry field, for a Vendor in the New Entry window.  Lookup would work in Desktop version and the info would show up while in the New Entry window so you could verify that info while doing the new entry. It would not work on the android phone version of the app.

So I tried a Javascript field and used the script--- field("Vendor")[0].field("myfieldforVendorObject")---.   This did not work at first but I noticed I had gotten it to work in another library.  The only difference I could find was that I had installed the moment.min.js JS Library for the field.  I added that library to my new JS field referencing the Vendor field and it started working exactly as I had hoped.

Hope this helps someone.

Mmm

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Jun 9, 2025, 9:19:58 AM6/9/25
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>>>  The only difference I could find was that I had installed the moment.min.js JS Library for the field.

Предположу, что отличие было не в подключенной библиотеке, а в пункте настройки поля JS - "Выполнять в реальном времени".

воскресенье, 8 июня 2025 г. в 21:18:22 UTC+3, johnson...@gmail.com:
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