Difference between GlideDialogForm, GlideDialogWindow, and GlideModalForm

[tahnalos]

Anyone?  And which one of those are considered to be outdated?

Thanks

[Akash4]

Hi Tahnalos,

I tried giving few scenarios where we use the first 2 cases, hope this helps.

GlideDialogForm:

Scenario: When dealing with incidents, we may often find the CI doesn't exist, we need an easy way to create them without spoiling other areas. This can be done via a GlideDialogForm.

Use GlideDialogForm to pop up a dialog box and show the CI Server Form, which is a different form to be displayed on incident form. Example code:

function ciPopup() {
 var dialog = new GlideDialogForm('Create Server CI',
'cmdb_ci_server'
, populateCmdbCIField);
 dialog.setTitle('Create Server CI');
 dialog.addParm('sysparm_view'
, 'default');
 dialog.addParm('sysparm_form_only'
, 'true');
 dialog.render();
}
 	
function populateCmdbCIField(action, sys_id, table,
displayValue) {
 g_form.setValue('cmdb_ci'
, sys_id);

GlideDialogWindow:

This is just a pop up window with few fields and not all as in the case of GlideDialogForm.

Scenario: Here you can use GlideDialogWindow to update a record from a list view with multiple fields at once anywhere in the system. This example is a popup that shows required closure information when a UI action button is clicked.

‘Resolve Dialog’ UI Action

Name: Resolve Dialog
Table: Incident
Client: True //This is client side code
Form Button: True
OnClick: showMyForm()
Condition: !current.isNewRecord()

function showMyForm(){
   //Get the table name and sys_id of the record
   var tableName = g_form.getTableName();
   var sysID = g_form.getUniqueValue();

   //Create and open the dialog form
   var dialog = new GlideDialogForm('Update incident', tableName); //Provide dialog title and table name
   dialog.setSysID(sysID); //Pass in sys_id to edit existing record, -1 to create new record
   dialog.addParm('sysparm_view', 'ResolveDialog'); //Specify a form view
   dialog.addParm('sysparm_form_only', 'true'); //Add or remove related lists
   dialog.render(); //Open the dialog
}

I have less knowledge on GlideModelForm, cant help much in this case. Thank you.

[Lisa Silvaroli]

Can you use scenario 1 to display a record producer instead of the actual record form? I can't figure it out. 

[Slava Savitsky]

With GlideDialogForm and GlideModalForm you can only render a normal form, i.e. a database record. To display a UI Page of your choosing in a popup window, use GlideDialogWindow or GlideModal instead.

The UI Page that is used for rendering of Catalog Items (and Record Producers, which are in fact a subclass of Catalog Items) is called "com.glideapp.servicecatalog_cat_item_view".

[matthew_magee1]

Hi Lisa,

Did you ever get your record producer to display? I'm trying to do something similar

Matthew