how to globally set custom bc_num_hours item

[smoors]

i'm testing the global form item documented at https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/how-tos/app-development/interactive/form.html#global-batch-connect-form-items

i've set the following items in global_bc_items.yml:

  global_num_cores:
    widget: "number_field"
    label: "Number of cores"
    value: 1
    required: true
    min: 1
    max: 64
    step: 1
  global_bc_num_hours:
    label: "Number of hours"
    widget: "number_field"
    value: 12
    min: 1
    max: 120
    step: 1

for num_cores everything works as intended after replacing every num_cores string with global_num_cores.

however, for the built-in bc_num_hours item, i cannot replace the strings because they are of course built in. prefixing with global_ seems to have the effect that it is no longer a built-in item, and thus the customizations are ignored.

how can this be fixed?

[johrstrom]

this looks like a bug, or am i doing it wrong?

I'll have to look into it. I'm not 100% sure how the code would react to both global and bc_ type parameters.

[smoors]

i just checked this again, and suddenly the label is correctly displayed, so this was probably a browser caching issue.

i'll close the ticket.

[johrstrom]

Thanks for the update!

[johrstrom]

I'm guessing from discourse post that this persists?

[smoors]

it's now a different issue, i've updated the first comment to clarify

[johrstrom]

however, for the built-in bc_num_hours item, i cannot replace the strings because they are of course built in. prefixing with global_ seems to have the effect that it is no longer a built-in item, and thus the customizations are ignored.

Thanks. I think this is an additional feature to combine these 2.

how can this be fixed?

At a cursory glance, not easily. The factory determines which class to build and all the logic for global stuff is in the global attribute class, not the bc_num_hours class. So it's not clear off hand how to solve this.