UI Macro call a UI Action

[poyntzj]

Hi all

Is it possible from a UI Macro to call a Ui Action ?

There is some code on the instance here which does a few bits and loads from a UI Page and works well

However, I may want to call this routine from elsewhere (on the CMS) and that it is all Ui Macro driven

My initial attempts are not working and I am not sure if it is possible, a code issue or the click not being registered

Cheers

[Manjul Katare · Accepted solution]

An interesting one to try out.

I created a UI action on incident table and then invoke it through UI Macro by bringing it in the Incident form as UI formatter.

UI Action:

UI Macro:

UI Formatter:

Now as a result of it, When I open any incident form it opens "www.servicenow.com" on a new page. Basically UI Macro is calling a UI action.

Hope this help!

-Manjul

[Daniel Draes]

This will surely work, but it will violate technical best practice as it uses document.getElementById.

If the code in the UI Action is pure server side you could to a gsftSubmit with the action name as parameter. Unfortunately there is not a lot of documentation around this method though.

[poyntzj]

Doh!

I wrote this in a hurry yesterday before my household got busy for a birthday party and when I looked at my emails later and saw the reply, I realised I had posted the wrong quetion !

However, your answer is correct for calling a UI action

I need to call a UI Script - so a new question about to be posted

[preddy1]

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