Question

I have a grid bound to a form the forms submit action is to update the loaded record if there is one and add a new record if its a blank form. but if I select a record first and then call

myGrid.getSelectionModel().deselectAll();
myform.getForm().reset(); 

to clear the form so I can add a new record it overwrites the previously selected record with an update.

record = myform.getRecord();
if(record){
record.set(values);
}

shouldn’t myform.getRecord(); be null after a reset? how do I clear the record selection?

Answer 1

In short, no, it shouldn’t and you don’t have legal approaches to clear the record after the first time you load anything via loadRecord.
Although, you could still do myform.getForm()._record = null assignment, I would strongly object against that, as it may break some internal functionality by ExtJS.

Here is an extract from ExtJS API:

getRecord() : Ext.data.Model
Returns the last Ext.data.Model instance
that was loaded via loadRecord

And it does exactly that, returns the last record loaded via loadRecord.

Here are some sources:

getRecord: function() {
    return this._record;
},

loadRecord: function(record) {
    this._record = record;
    return this.setValues(record.data);
},

Actually, those are the only methods of Ext.form.Basic (an instance of which is returned by getForm()) dealing with this._record field.

As for reset

reset: function() {
    var me = this;
    me.batchLayouts(function() {
        me.getFields().each(function(f) {
            f.reset();
        });
    });
    return me;
},

As you could see, reset has nothing to do with the record returned by getRecord(), it’s just resetting field values.