This gets weirder. Further testing shows that I can update a ui-only field on one model that’s based on a Salesforce object, but not on another model that’s also based on a Salesforce object. Really hard to produce a repeatable pattern.

Can you identify any difference at all between the two models? 

Can you create a simple repro page we could put in our QA org and test? 

Glenn~

Thanks for notifying us of this problem. I’ve forwarded your post to our dev team to look into. If you could also put the XML for a simple repro page we could put in our QA org to test like Rob mentioned, that would be super helpful!

Thanks!
Karen

So I tried to create a simple test page that would recreate my problem. I created the example below, but annoyingly, it works just fine:

<skuidpage unsavedchangeswarning="yes" personalizationmode="server" showsidebar="false" showheader="false" theme="Lightning Design"> <models> <model id="Account" limit="1" query="false" createrowifnonefound="true" adapter="salesforce" type="" sobject="Account"> <fields> <field id="Context" uionly="true" displaytype="TEXT" label="Context" length="20" defaultValue="DEFAULT"/> </fields> <conditions/> <actions/> </model> <model id="StateWithoutObject" limit="1" query="false" createrowifnonefound="true" adapter="salesforce" type="" doclone="" unloadwarningifunsavedchanges="false"> <fields> <field id="Context" uionly="true" displaytype="TEXT" label="Context" length="20" defaultValue="DEFAULT"/> </fields> <conditions/> <actions/> </model> </models> <components> <pagetitle model="Account" uniqueid="sk-3kVVjf-99"> <maintitle>Hit the button and check the console</maintitle> <actions> <action type="multi" label="UPDATE STATE WITH ACTIONS"> <actions> <action type="updateRow" fieldmodel="StateWithoutObject" value="NEWVALUEFROMACTION" field="Context" enclosevalueinquotes="true"/> <action type="custom" snippet="writeNewState"/> </actions> </action> <action type="multi" label="UPDATE STATE WITH SNIPPET"> <actions> <action type="custom" snippet="updateState"/> </actions> </action> </actions> </pagetitle> </components> <resources> <labels/> <javascript> <jsitem location="inlinesnippet" name="writeNewState" cachelocation="false">var params = arguments[0], $ = skuid.$; var stateModel2 = skuid.model.getModel('StateWithoutObject'); var stateRow2 = stateModel2.getFirstRow(); console.log('StateWithoutObject new Context value from action = ' + stateRow2.Context);</jsitem> <jsitem location="inline" name="writeDefaultState" cachelocation="false" url="">(function(skuid){ var $ = skuid.$; $(document.body).one('pageload',function(){ var stateModel2 = skuid.model.getModel('StateWithoutObject'); var stateRow2 = stateModel2.getFirstRow(); console.log('StateWithoutObject default Context value = ' + stateRow2.Context); stateModel2.updateRow(stateRow2, {Context: 'NEWVALUEFROMLOAD'}); console.log('StateWithoutObject new Context value from load = ' + stateRow2.Context); }); })(skuid);</jsitem> <jsitem location="inlinesnippet" name="updateState" cachelocation="false">var params = arguments[0], $ = skuid.$; var stateModel = skuid.model.getModel('StateWithoutObject'); var stateRow = stateModel.getFirstRow(); stateModel.updateRow(stateRow, {Context: 'NEWFROMSNIPPET'}); console.log('StateWithObject new Context value from snippet = ' + stateRow.Context);</jsitem> </javascript> <css/> </resources> <styles> <styleitem type="background" bgtype="none"/> </styles> </skuidpage>

I can’t see at all why the behaviour in my real page is different to this. Utterly baffling. It worked fine in Banzai.

So I’ve not been much use here. Back to the drawing board.

Glenn~

Thanks for the sample page. Sorry, that must have been very frustrating for you. Good news is that you’ll still be able to do what you want to do on your page. Bad news is, now you gotta figure out what on your page is breaking what you’re trying to do before you can keep doing what you want … 

Glad it’s somewhat resolved though! I’ll let the dev team know a UI only model that’s not connected to a Salesforce object works alright though.

Karen

I think I’ve solved the mystery.

The above test page works fine. But add a ui-only field to the StateWithoutObject model called “Id” and you can no longer update any field on the model’s rows at all.

I’ve changed my original page now (renamed my old UI field “Id” to “Id1”) and it’s back to its former happy self.

Yay! I have no hair left and my spirit is broken, but … yay!