Journaling
I have a need to 'journal' within a record.
Within a record there is a <journal entry> field which always defaults on display to blank (ready for a new journal entry by a user).
A user places some text in the <journal entry> field, then clicks save.
The system takes the journal entry, stamps it with a date and the users name, and appends it to the <journal> field. Then clears out the entry.
The journal field is a read only text field with the latest entry at the top. Much like an email chain, looking like this:
Mary Smith on 1/4/2024: Yes
John Smith on 1/2/2024: Con you get me the report?
I got it working 90% using pipelines. But I have two issues: I click save and the record is not refreshed, so I have to refresh it manually, that is a bad user experience, I'd like some advice on if I can use a pipeline to force a refresh/redraw, and 2), the system enters a blank line after every update. I am using {{CLEAR}} to clear the journal entry field, which works great, but after adding that expression a blank line always appears in the journal. If I remove that expression, the blank line goes away but the journal entry field remains populated.
any advice is greatly appreciated.
Holy crap! That was easy. A million thanks! In my world the term 'logging' represents different functionality, so I didn't even consider that as an option. But now I know. Learning every day! Thank you all!!!!
