With the help of https://angular.io/guide/dynamic-form, i am making a dynamic form where i am in the need to display two fields at first.
new TextboxQuestion({
key: 'firstName',
label: 'First name',
value: '',
required: true,
order: 1
}),
new TextboxQuestion({
key: 'lastName',
label: 'Last name',
value: '',
required: true,
order: 2
}),
These two fields needs to be at first on loading.
After this i will have two buttons as add and remove
.
<button (click)="addNew()"> Add </button>
<button (click)="removeNew()"> Remove </button> <br><br>
By clicking add, i need to display the next two fields (the following fields),
new TextboxQuestion({
key: 'emailAddress',
label: 'Email',
type: 'email',
order: 3
}),
new DropdownQuestion({
key: 'brave',
label: 'Bravery Rating',
options: [
{key: 'solid', value: 'Solid'},
{key: 'great', value: 'Great'},
{key: 'good', value: 'Good'},
{key: 'unproven', value: 'Unproven'}
],
order: 4
})
Order 1 & 2 in the initial state and after clicking add the next two order 3 & 4 needs to get displayed.
KIndly help me to achieve the result of adding child fields on click add button.
The working stackblitz which displays all at once, https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-x4a5b6
Implementing dynamic form with formArray.
Well, the things are more complex. I make a stackblik, see demo
I'll try to explain how extends the https://angular.io/guide/dynamic-form to allow Form Array.
The first we need make is create a new type of question, a questionArray
import { QuestionBase } from './question-base';
export class ArrayQuestion extends QuestionBase<string> {
controlType = 'array';
type: any;
constructor(options: {} = {}) {
super(options);
}
}
We must change question base to add a new property "children"
export class QuestionBase<T> {
value: T;
...
children:any[];
constructor(options: {
value?: T,
...
children?:any
} = {}) {
this.value = options.value;
...
this.children=options.children || null;
}
}
Add change the question-control service to allow manage formArrays
toFormGroup(questions: QuestionBase<any>[]) {
let group: any = {};
questions.forEach(question => {
//If the control type is "array" we create a FormArray
if (question.controlType=="array") {
group[question.key]=new FormArray([]);
}
else {
group[question.key] = question.required ? new FormControl(question.value || '', Validators.required)
: new FormControl(question.value || '');
}
});
return new FormGroup(group);
}
Well We transform the dynamic-form.component to show a FormArray
<div *ngFor="let question of questions" class="form-row">
<ng-container *ngIf="question.children">
<div [formArrayName]="question.key">
<div *ngFor="let item of form.get(question.key).controls; let i=index" [formGroupName]="i">
<div *ngFor="let item of question.children">
<app-question [question]="item" [form]="form.get(question.key).at(i)"></app-question>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</ng-container>
<ng-container *ngIf="!question.children">
<app-question [question]="question" [form]="form"></app-question>
</ng-container>
</div>
And just it doit. Well, how increment and decrement the formArrays? We have two buttons
<button (click)="addControls('myArray')"> Add </button>
<button (click)="removeControls('myArray')"> Remove </button> <br><br>
And two functions addControls and removeControls
addControls(control: string) {
let question: any = this.questions.find(q => q.key == control);
let children = question ? question.children : null;
if (children)
(this.form.get(control) as FormArray).push(this.qcs.toFormGroup(children))
}
removeControls(control: string){
let array=this.form.get(control) as FormArray;
array.removeAt(array.length-1);
}
Update I forgot add and example of questions:
let questions: QuestionBase<any>[] = [
new TextboxQuestion({
key: 'firstName',
label: 'First name',
value: '',
required: true,
order: 1
}),
new TextboxQuestion({
key: 'lastName',
label: 'Last name',
value: '',
required: true,
order: 2
}),
new ArrayQuestion({
key: 'myArray',
value: '',
order: 3,
children: [
new TextboxQuestion({
key: 'emailAddress',
label: 'Email',
type: 'email',
order: 3
}),
new DropdownQuestion({
key: 'brave',
label: 'Bravery Rating',
options: [
{ key: 'solid', value: 'Solid' },
{ key: 'great', value: 'Great' },
{ key: 'good', value: 'Good' },
{ key: 'unproven', value: 'Unproven' }
],
order: 4
})
]
})
];
The only thing that you need is "paginate" your questions using slice and a variable "page"
That is:
//add a variable "page" in your dinamic-form.component.ts
page:number=0;
and
//in your dinamic-form.component.html, change the *ngFor like
<form (ngSubmit)="onSubmit()" [formGroup]="form">
<div *ngFor="let question of questions.slice(page*2,(page+1)*2)" class="form-row">
<app-question [question]="question" [form]="form"></app-question>
</div>
....
</form>
Then, your button add can be like
<button (click)="page=page+1"> Add </button>