can Ui action be used to call a ui page?

[surya123]

Hi All,

I have a UI Page(xyz) which invokes a UI Macro to show few buttons on header and carry out buttons functionality.

I have a UI Action created to incident page which shows as a link on the form.

When i click on the link (created by ui action) in the incident page , then i want it to perform what the UI page (xyz) does .[ That is loads a page with header and buttons].

Is it possible   that when I click on the UI Action link, it performs what is being carried out by UI Page.

Please let me know if there is any other approach in which this can be achieved or if this is possible then share the script for same.

Thanks in advance

Surya

[Ravi Prasad1]

Hi Surya,

You can do that by using below script.

function popupDispList() {

    //Initialize the GlideDialogWindow

    var gdw = new GlideDialogWindow('UI page name');

  gdw.setTitle('Incidents');

  gdw.setPreference('table', 'incident_list');

  gdw.setPreference('sysparm_view', 'default');

        //Open the dialog window

  gdw.render();

}

For more details refer Displaying a Custom Dialog - ServiceNow Wiki

Thanks,

Ravi

[surya123]

Hi Ravi

I added the Ui page name , but then it is displaying the incident list but not the ui page which was designed using macro.

Thanks

Surya

[Ravi Prasad1]

  gdw.setPreference('table', 'incident_list');

In this instead of "incident_list" update with your table name.

ex:   yourtable_list

_list is required only replace incident with your table name.

If you are not using the table name just remove that line and try.

function popupDispList() {

    //Initialize the GlideDialogWindow

    var gdw = new GlideDialogWindow('UI page name');         // Required

  gdw.setTitle('Incidents');                                                                                                         // Update your page name (your wish)

  gdw.setPreference('table', 'incident_list');                                                 // Optional parameter

  gdw.setPreference('sysparm_view', 'default');                                   // optional parameter

        //Open the dialog window

  gdw.render();                                                                                                                                       // mandatory

}

[surya123]

Hi,

This works fine but I want when I click on the UI Action Link it opens a complete screen which shows a header and a button( as specified in Ui Page) but not as dialog.