Adding a hyperlink to schedule_show UI macro

[EthanVanDoorne]

I have a business need to add a simple hyperlink to the bottom of the calendar view for On-Call Scheduling, to make it appear as a Form Link would. My jelly ninja is flimsy at best.

Is this as easy as it seems like it should be?

[EthanVanDoorne]

The macro is called schedule_show

[Anurag Tripathi]

Hi Ethan,

It should not be difficult.

just add this at the right place

<a href='URL' target='_blank'>LINK NAME</a>

If you want a more modular approach:-

a ui macro can be called inside another ui macro, (i quickly ran a small test).

I created 2 ui macros, both having a hyperlink each and using a formatter I pulled one of them on a form. So far everything is usual.

Then i invoked another ui macro inside the first macro..

<g:macro_invoke macro="<your hyperlink macro name>" />

[EthanVanDoorne]

Perhaps I'm trying to modify the wrong macro. I still can't get it to show up on below the calendar.

[andrew_venables · Accepted solution]

This isn't that straight forward,

There is a UI Macro called show_schedule but this is just the 'decoration' that adds an icon to the form next to the field. When you click the icon it opens show_schedule.do which is a page defined in a .xml file on the file system.

To override this page you would have to obtain a copy of its XML, modify it and then save it as a new UI Page with the same name to override.

This would also be pretty bad practice.

Instead you should create a new Schedule Page that allows you to define customer JavaScript, Jelly and Sever-side script. There are many OOTB example of this and the Wiki has good info on it. Once you have your schedule page you should then define a NEW macro/decoration that opens your new page