How do I hide spinner when a form populates?

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When a user selects a gallery item it sometimes takes a little while for the form to populate. Even then, there are situations where the form updates only a small amount of data but it is not apparent that anything changed. What I am attempting to do is show a spinner when the gallery item is selected and hide that spinner when the form full populates. Here is what I have so far.

I set a context variable to true when a gallery item is selected - (UpdateContext({varShowRetrieveSpinner: true}).
I set the spinner's Visible property too varShowRetrieveSpinner
??? I need to set varShowRetrieveSpinner to false when the record loads into the form.

How do I do this?

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SaiRT14 1,992 Super User 2025 Season 1 on at

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Pls try the following:

Gallery OnSelect: UpdateContext({ varShowRetrieveSpinner: true });

Spinner Visible: varShowRetrieveSpinner

Form OnSuccess: UpdateContext({ varShowRetrieveSpinner: false });

Form OnFailure:

UpdateContext({ varShowRetrieveSpinner: false });
Notify("Failed to load the record.", NotificationType.Error);

let me know if you need more details. Thankz

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jpespena 335 on at

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Hi,

Can you try putting the UpdateContext on the OnChange property of the last field of the form?

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jpespena

I tried that with a field I knew would change when a new gallery item was selected. It happens to be one of the last fields. It didn't change the variable.

SaiRT14

That doesn't work. Selecting a gallery item is not the same as submitting a form where the OnSuccess or OnFailure would be triggered.

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Hi,

I would suggest to add a timer control and set its time to the average duration when your form loads and at the end of the timer, set the UpdateContext to false.

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In my opinon I guess you could only use the timer control.

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That is what I did. I added a timer with a 1 second run time. I set the spinner's Visible property to 'true' when a record was clicked. That also started the timer which sets the variable back to 'false' OnTimerEnd. It's not perfect, since part of the form updates nearly instantaneously before the timer kicks off, but it is good enough.

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