How to pass the table name from UI Action to UI Page?

[zsquared]

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone can help me with the following scenario:

I have a UI action set up on a list.  When clicked, the UI action creates a Custom Dialog Window where I would like to have a button that is linked to a different table.  I would like the table to filter for records that uses a query from the original table with the UI action.  

So far, I am only finding g_form results on how to pass values but I cannot have the UI on the form.  It must be on the list.

Any guidance would be appreciated!

Thank you!

[Michael Jones - · Accepted solution]

You should be able to do something like this, in your UI Action: 

var yourDialog = new GlideDialogWindow("Your UI Page");
   gDialog.setPreference('sysparm_table','this_table');

then in your Ui page use something like
 

<g:evaluate var="jvar_table" object="true">
var table = "${sysparm_table}"
table;
 </g:evaluate>

Then use ${jvar_table} to use the value...

If this was helpful, or correct, please be kind and remember to click appropriately! 

[zsquared]

Thank you so much! Didn't realize it was this simple.. was testing so many other ways.  

[Michael Jones -]

Glad I could help! It took me a while to figure out it was that easy as well. I won't even tell you some of the things I tried 🙂

[Roshani]

Hi Zhen,

Could you please help me with your complete code so that i can take a look from it.