I've read a bunch of articles on how to call dialogs from javascript and integrate them into a ribbon button, but I am running into a problem where I need to do all that AND pass in a string as an input parameter (to a child dialog?).
Is this possible? Would I have to modify the calling url of the dialog?
I've read this one about calling dialogs with the SelectedControlAllItemsId, which is almost what I need.
Ideally I would open the form of the parent entity, click on one of the subgrids in the left hand navigation, then select some of the related/associated entities, click the ribbon button and wait for the dialog or workflow to chew through all of those Ids.
Is it possible to capture these selected items using SelectedControlAllItemsId, then pass that string to a child dialog so it can then call another workflow? Or should I capture that string, store it in the calling record via REST and then let a workflow run on a field-trigger?
The end result is that I must run a custom workflow and manipulate the parent record + the selected related records. I have already written the workflow, but I do not know how to trigger it the way I want.
Perhaps there is something I am overlooking? Is there a way to call a custom bit of code directly from javascript and let it work the rest of the way?
I'm not sure how an interactive dialog should deal with a collection of records. Surely that would require sequential iterations of the dialog, as the user processes each record? As you will see from the SDK (and discussed in your linked thread), it is only possible to run a dialog against a single record.
A workflow is a different matter.
- Custom ribbon button, using SelectedControlAllItemsId
- Supporting JScript handler should iterate SelectedControlAllItemsId
- Each iteration should issue an ExecuteWorkflowRequest using the current item id and based on code such as this (which issues an ExecuteWorkflowRequest from JScript
Remember that the workflow request is asynchronous so you can just send all the requests one after another rather than waiting for the outcome of each request.
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I am building a simple admin-on-rest application. One of the features is the user to export the content from a list view. So far I have two possible approaches in mind.
Export based on the selected filters (my favorite).
Export based on the selected rows from the table using check boxes.
I guess two things are necessary to achieve that:
Be able to render a button somewhere in "list view": would be great to add an "export" button inside the "filters" section. I couldn't find a way to render an "export" button keeping the filters.
That "export" button would be able to get the filters (from the list view filter section) for creating my custom URL for downloading the data. Or if using check boxes, detect the selected rows from the table and export that data.
I have been looking for examples or following other colleagues questions and I coundn't come up with anything similar. Any info/example/project will be much appreciated.
This is quite solvable. The filter is stored in the redux form and can be accessed by any connected component. I am guessing you have an API endpoint available that you can ping with the filter data and that can then generate the file and respond with the file URL.
1) Write a connected button component. This should have a mapStateToProps method to access the current filter data
https://marmelab.com/admin-on-rest/List.html#actions
2) It should also dispatch an action that generates a POST request.
https://marmelab.com/admin-on-rest/Actions.html#using-a-custom-action-creator
IMPORTANTLY: You will have to think about how the file itself will get downloaded. Since you are generating the URL on the fly, it will not be embedded in the model data so you do not have access to it. You might have to hard code a file name and path into your components so clicking will always lead to a download. Though this is not as trivial as it sounds, as the file generation itself will be an async operation. I think clicking this button should lead to a redirect to a page where the download link is displayed.
Just to complement krunal's answer, there's a library called FileSaver that can take a json response and start a file save operation with its content, showing a file save dialog, or even download it directly to a file of your choice.
Our team is setting up test scripts for automating interaction testing using QTP, for an ExtJS based application.
Many of our elements/objects are being detected as desired, with the exception of column header sorting triggers.
Our grid panel has remote sorting, however programatically triggering a column header "click" doesn't fire our sorting, although "click"ing manually on the column header does. I've tried mousedown and mouseup, on the column header Div, and it's children -titleEl and -textEl as well.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
The simplest way would be to tell QTP to generate mouse events, this way all the events that are fired when a real human clicks the header will be fired when QTP clicks it.
As seen here
origReplayType = Setting.WebPackage("ReplayType")
Setting.WebPackage("ReplayType") = 2
Browser("B").Page("P").WebElement("column header").Click ' your script line here
Setting.WebPackage("ReplayType") = origReplayType
If this is a common occurrence you can use RegisterUserFunc to define a new DeviceClick function to your test objects.
A slightly more complex way is to debug the application and see which event triggers sorting the column and then use FireEvent with the correct event.
My project is using Wicket's AjaxFormValidatingBehavior to auto-save form content to Session on sort of a multi-tab form with a tree menu (there is no save button on individual tabs, though there is a "Save" button that actually submits the form, runs the validations and saves contents to database). I am facing few issues:
Since the behavior is added to all form components' onChange event, there is a server-trip every time user moves from one field to another. I know that a throttle duration can be specified to prevent this, but its not possible to set in my case as my forms are of different lengths/complexity, many components dynamically generated (including the tree menu). But is there a more elegant solution to auto-save form content (that doesn't have a submit button) rather than this annoying solution.
Another issue I am facing is that post onChange event, on Firefox the component loses its focus after the "server trip" ends. While on IE7 it works fine.
For the first question I think you need to add a pipelining facility, on your components' onchange call a javascript function of your which calls your webapp. You can include a feature similar to the one provided with the throttle duration but page-wide (delay each calls and only trigger the last if it is older than x milliseconds for example).
For the second one, I think you have to use the AjaxRequestTarget#focusComponent in your behaviors, or handle this thing in your "wrapper" as described in the first answer.
I have an application that has a few different forms. From the main form I can open a number of other forms, I use the following command to display the chosen window:
frmConversions.ShowModal;
Once the user has completed what they need to do in that window and they close that window I close the window using the following:
frmConversions.Close;
However if the user then goes back to frmConversions, the settings that they had previously chosen will still be selected/entered. Am I handling multiple windows correctly and if so how do I stop the retention of data?
It depends on how you create the form. If you auto-create the form, then it will exist for the lifetime of the program and so will retain any values stored in the form's variables. If, however, you create modal forms whenever needed and free them afterwards (as is the custom), then values will not be stored. This is done thus
with TFrmConversions.Create(nil) do
try
ShowModal;
finally
Free;
end;
IN the FormClose event, you can choose what happens to the form when you call Close (see the documentation and here. If the Action is for example caHide, the form is hidden, not freed. And thereby it will mantain the settings.
There are two basic approaches:
1) create the form each time before it is shown and free it when it is closed.
2) in the form's OnShow event, set all the variables the user might change to their initial values.
A way to accomplish #1 is to put a function in the form's unit file to create it, showmodal, then free it.
On my page I have a textarea where users can enter a list of items, items being separated by a newline.
I would like to process the user's input without him/her having to press a submit button. ("Process" means send the information the user entered to the server and update other elements on the current page.) I thought of two days of doing this:
1- Install an event handler for keypress events and, when I get an event for the Enter key being pressed, process the line the user just completed. (Getting cursor position info as done here.) This has the disadvantage of not handling copy-pasting into the form. (And, if I understood correctly from browsing Stack Overflow, support for handling paste events is not great even among most common browsers, right?)
2- Periodically process the contents of the textarea by using setInterval(). I am already using a setInterval() on the page to implement the unique URLs pattern, so if I could I would avoid that.
Are there better ways to achieve this?
There is also an "onchange" event for a textarea. You can use it to detect any changes, including paste or magic inserts.