Including parameters with gsftSubmit?

[Stephen W_]

When running UI Actions, gsftSubmit can be used to execute the serverside section of your script after the client-side portion has been run.

However, there seems to be a glarin omission from the documentation.     gsftSubmit.

It's used on many OOB ui actions, but no documentation in the wiki.

Example:
I want to collect a value from the user with a client action and use it along with current.somevalue.

If I am able to include a parameter in that gsftSubmit, (and consume it in the ui action) it makes this very clean.  

Otherwise, I'm thinking I can use g_scratchpad..

On a related note, I also see in the library: gsftPrompt, gsftConfirm, and gsftListSubmit.

Has anyone used these or know where I can find documentation/examples?

Thanks,

-Stephen

[Slava Savitsky]

Finally, I found my way around the limitation by saving parameters to a user preference and then retrieving the value of that preference on the server side.

[Stephen W_]

Slava, can you show an example ui action where you do this?

[geoffcox]

The more usual way would be to add a field to your form (you could hide it if you want), and save the value you get from the user in that field before you perform the submit.

[vincentb]

Hi Stephen, I haven't found a way to use parameter.

But as a workaround you can create another inactive UI Action with a different "Action name".

Then you call one or the other in your main UI Action.

Example below:

function create_prob_call(){

  if(confirm("Do you want to add the incident affected CIs in the problem?")){

  return gsftSubmit(null, g_form.getFormElement(), 'create_prob_from_inc');

  }

  else{

  //We call the inactive UI Action with this name. This is a workaround because we can't push a parameter

  return gsftSubmit(null, g_form.getFormElement(), 'create_prob_from_inc_no_ci');

  }

}

[Sandy48]

hi @steve4king,

Have you found any document for gsftPrompt, gsftConfirm, and gsftListSubmit.

Please can you share the document if you have found any.