UI Action - "Request Approval"

[rachellesan]

Has anyone done something like this?

When a user clicks a UI Action, "Request Approval", it will 1) Prompt the user with a message stating all fields must be completed. 2) Sets all Fields on a particular form section to Mandatory.

Essentially, we want the user to be able to save data to a form, and come back to it, so it's a draft state, but if they submit it for approval, they will be fields from the form section that will need to be mandatory.

Any suggestions?

[Bhavesh Jain1]

You can write an Onsubmit client script with below code:

function onSubmit() {

//Type appropriate comment here, and begin script below



var action = g_form.getActionName();

alert('You pressed ' + action);

g_form.setMandatory('rfc',true);

g_form.setMandatory('problem_id',true);

g_form.setMandatory('number',true);

}

In the above code, the action name is the Action Name you have provided in your UI action 'Request approval'.

Regards,

Bhavesh

http://www.igate.com

[harikrish_v]

Hi Rachelle,

Different ways to do this, one is to perform everything within the UI action itself. Please find the code below. I have also attached a screenshot for your reference.

Name: Request Approval

Table: Your table name

Action Name: request_approval

Client: True

Form Button: True // Depends on your requirement

Onclick: runClientCode();

Script:

function runClientCode(){

   alert('All fields must be completed before you can submit the form'); 

   g_form.setMandatory('<field_1>',true); 

   g_form.setMandatory('<field_2>',true); 

   g_form.setMandatory('<field_2>',true); 

   gsftSubmit(null, g_form.getFormElement(), 'request_approval'); //MUST call the 'Action name' in this UI Action

}



//Code that runs without 'onclick'

//Ensure call to server-side function with no browser errors

if(typeof window == 'undefined')

   runBusRuleCode();



//Server-side function

function runBusRuleCode(){

   current.update();

   gs.log('Request submitted for approval successfully');

   action.setRedirectURL(current);

}

You can modify the client and server functions to suit you requirement. Hope this helps.

Thanks & Regards,

Hari

[Bhavesh Jain1]

Hi Rachelle, Did you try the solution which I gave in my last response ?

[ryan86]

Hi Rachelle,

I did this in a pretty simple way.

First I created the UI Action (with a client script changing it's background colour) and the following code:

if (current.state != 3)
{
  current.state = 3;
  gs.addInfoMessage('*An Approval has been requested, and named approvers have been emailed with the relevant details*');
}
else
{
  gs.addInfoMessage('* Approval Already Requested *');
}

gs.addInfoMessage('State : ' + current.state);

current.update();

Then, I added a "Wait Condition" before the approval activity into the workflow which waits until the state = 3, before moving on to the approval activity. It works quite well at present.

[Sanjeev Kumar1]

Hi Rachelle,

Harikrishnan Vijayan suggested right solution.