Hi Workspace Superstars,
I've created a UI Action that is based on PDFGenerationAPI and generates the PDF document based on the current Purchase Order records and related data.
Unfortunately after the process is completed, the attachment is not immediately visible in the Attachments section of the sidebar and I am not able to force the form refresh of the entire workplace form either. This creates a poor UX where the user must manually refresh the page to see the outcome of their UI Action.
My UI Action is set to client = false and here's the script:
// Build the PDF content and attach it to the record
var v = new sn_pdfgeneratorutils.PDFGenerationAPI;
var gr = new GlideRecord("proc_po");
var currentRecord = gr.get(current.sys_id);
var html;
var currentDate = new GlideDate();
var formattedDate = currentDate.getByFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");
// html string including server side scripting to dynamically build the document goes here
if (currentRecord) {
html = ;
}
var hfInfo = new Object();
// lots of hfInfo properties are here
var result = v.convertToPDFWithHeaderFooter(html, "proc_po", current.sys_id, "ITBestellung-" + current.number + "-" + formattedDate, hfInfo);
action.setRedirectURL(current);
I did experiment with setting UI Action to client = true and adding the following code in Workspace Client Script but then it breaks the main functionality of PDF generation both in classic UI and in Workspace:
function onClick(g_form) {
g_form.reload();
}
Can I have the best of both worlds - UI Action to generate PDF and to refresh the page in classic UI and Workspace to immediately reveal the attachment. Even better if in Workspace there's a way not to refresh the whole page, just the Attachment section of the sidebar or something similar.
Any help appreciated.
