Can a button affect the values in fields?

I have a picklist of a bunch of statuses (new, submitted, rejected, in progress, etc.), but ideally the user should only be able to choose one (submitted) or leave it alone (new, or approved). Is there a way to make a button on a Skuid page that changes the value in a field on that page to something specific (and then even saves the page, perhaps)? Then the user doesn't have to click on a field and then choose a value in the field, they can just click once.

Right now I'm contemplating adding a new picklist field that has only the two the values in it, then a workflow that can update the main status field once they save their changes, since there isn't a good way to limit which values the user can choose in a picklist field. Obviously that's hokey, though, and doesn't improve the UI experience, either.

Peter Bender, Champion

6,296 Points

Posted 7 years ago

7 years ago

Zach McElrath, Employee

54,326 Points

This is doable with a JavaScript Snippet. If your button (Page Title, Table Row/Global/Mass Action, Wizard, or unattached) is set to the type of "Custom", then you can specify the name of a Snippet to execute. Supposing that the Object you want to update is Case, and you have a Model called "CaseData", with one row in it, and you want to update the "Status" field to be a certain value, e.g. 'Escalated', and then want to immediately save that Model, here's what your snippet code would look like:




var CaseModel = skuid.model.getModel('CaseData');


var CaseRow = CaseModel.getFirstRow();


CaseModel.updateRow(CaseRow,'Status','Escalated');


CaseModel.save();

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2013-05-03T16:20:34+00:00

Peter Bender, Champion

6,296 Points

Awesome - so easy! Every time you post a solution like this it gets me more excited to see a reference for the Skuid object model, so I can figure more of these things out myself, and come up with cool enhancements. Extrapolating from this will become very handy.

2013-11-13T06:53:11+00:00

Kaede Holland

3,176 Points

This is cool, you guys!

6 years ago

Thaddeus Ward

736 Points

Can I used this same method to update multiple fields? How would the code look for that?

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2013-11-13T14:35:28+00:00

Zach McElrath, Employee

54,256 Points

The best way to update multiple fields is to use a version of updateRow which passes in the field/value pairings as a JavaScript object:



var CaseModel = skuid.model.getModel('CaseData');


var CaseRow = CaseModel.getFirstRow();


CaseModel.updateRow(CaseRow,{


   'Status' : 'Escalated',


   'Priority' : 'High',


   'My_Custom_Field__c' : 'Hello World',


   'OwnerId' : skuid.utils.userInfo.userId


});


CaseModel.save();

2013-11-13T15:13:06+00:00

Thaddeus Ward

736 Points

Excellent. This makes great sense.

3 years ago

Ashley Erhart

160 Points

Is there any way to accomplish this same thing without javascript? Specifically, creating a button that each time you click it moves the record through the picklist options for Status. So first click, changes from "New" to "In Progress" and second click changes from "In Progress" to "Complete", etc

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3 years ago

Dave

6,602 Points

Hi Ashley, you could do it quite simply actually

Using your example, Create 2 button

1st button: add action to Change it to "In Progress" + save and a rendering condition to only make it appear it when field = "New"

2nd button: add action to Change it to "Complete" + save and a rendering condition to only make it appear it when field= "In Progress"

And so on...

For the end user they will never see the difference, as only 1 button would appear at a time

Hope it helps :)

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3 years ago

Ashley Erhart

160 Points

Thank you!

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