How to pre-select row in repeater on Page Load

[BenHoang_Axure]

If you’re just trying to target a single row of a repeater externally, you can use a repeater trick that takes advantage of an event listener. For an explanation of this, you can also refer to the forum post linked below:

Repater Deselecting Corresponding Row Button

Because a repeater takes a widget(s) and copies it many times, it can sometimes be hard to target just a single row from an external interaction (like a second repeater). However, a great way to do this is to use a strategy that allows the whole repeater to consider each row and under a condition, target the specific row we want. To explain, we can have the external button (your close button) contain a “Move” action that will move the desired repeater or internal widgets by 0,0. We don’t actua…

I have also made these changes in your project file and attached it here. Calendar Date Picker - Axure Edit.rp (102.3 KB)

To briefly explain, I added the “Move by 0,0” action under the “Page Loaded”. I needed to include the “Wait” action just before to ensure proper firing sequence of the next action.

Then, on the dynamic panel I have the “Moved” event follow by the condition and action I need.

There are also a few things about your project that I was curious about. On this “Calendar” repeater there are a few “Set Text” interactions that are redundant. Because these widgets are connected via the repeater dataset feature, you won’t need to manually connect them using interaction.

On the dynamic panel, the “Edit Row Data” action is trying to edit a column that doesn’t exist. However, the byproduct of this action is that it resets the repeater and therefore erases the previous calendar selection. This seems to be a desired effect but just wanted to shed some light on this.