Service Portal Widget, Delete or Update based on the button pressed

[Dylan Mann1]

I'm trying to create a widget which displays a users information. I'm calling both the User Table and my custom 'members table' which references many of the fields within the user table. When a user clicks the delete button I want the record from the members table to be deleted and when the update button is pressed I want the User table to be updated. This isn't my issue though. My issue is that when I use the server.update() method it updates and then deletes the record no matter which button is pressed. I understand why it's not working but not how to fix it. How can I separate the calls to the server?

Here's my client and server side code:

$scope.deleteUser = function() {

$scope.server.update();

}

$scope.updateUser = function() {

$scope.server.update();

}

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if(this.input) {

memberRecord.deleteRecord();

}

if(this.input) {

userRecord.first_name = this.input.user.firstName.toString();

userRecord.last_name = this.input.user.lastName.toString();

userRecord.email = this.input.user.email.toString();

userRecord.roles = this.input.user.roles.toString();

userRecord.update();

data.user = this.input.user;

gs.addInfoMessage('Update Successful');

}

Thanks,

Dylan

[ajaylimaye]

c.server.update().then(function(){

//Give your inputs here and it should solve your issue.

})

PS: Hit like, Helpful or Correct depending on the impact of the response

Thanks,

Ajay Limaye

Solugenix Corporation

[jesseadams · Accepted solution]

One way to do this would be to add an action variable into your input object.

Set $scope.data.action to update or delete when the respective button is pressed, then on the server say if(input.action =="delete")... and so on.

[Dylan Mann1]

What if the input object is all on the server side? I have a data.user on the server side which the html references in the ng-models. Am I adding an action field to that user object and trying to change it before the update?

Like so:

server side:

data.user = {

firstName: userRecord.first_name.toString(),

lastName: userRecord.last_name.toString(),

email: userRecord.email.toString(),

roles: userRecord.roles.toString(),

action: ''"

};

client side:

$scope.deleteUser = function() {

$scope.data.action = 'delete';

$scope.server.update();

}

$scope.updateUser = function() {

$scope.data.action = 'update';      

$scope.server.update();

}

[jesseadams]

You don't have to add it to the user object necessarily. You can if that's what you want to do but it isn't necessary. If you do, just change $scope.data.action to $scope.data.user.action in the controller.

Any changes you make to $scope.data should be copied to the input object when you call back to the server via server.update() or similar.

So, you should be able to set $scope.data.action like you are in the ng-click function for your button and then just have an if condition on the server checking what the value of input.action is.

I did this on a widget once and it went something like this:

// Client Controller

c.update = function(){

...

c.data.action = 'update';

c.server.update();

};

c.delete = function(){

...

c.data.action = 'delete';

c.server.update();

};

// Server script

if(input && input.action =='update' ){

... do your update stuff here ...

}

if(input && input.action =='delete' ){

... do your delete stuff here ...

}