V9: Parameter driven child admin forms?

Paul_York

I could have sworn this was a new feature introduced in V9 whereby you could assign fields to be passed through to an administration form that was opened from a command button on a form?

 

I can't however find any reference to it? Was I dreaming and am I going back to our JScrip libraries to implement this?

 

Thanks,

 

P

rgibb

I think you'll find you can only do this on a status indicator to drill down, and also from reports. 

Paul_York

Thanks Robin for clearing that up!  I was sure I'd seen it somewhere, It's just a shame it's not available to normal forms that are opened from a button.

 

Cheers anyway!

 

P

Paul Lawrence

You could of course put a status field on your form and change the image to one that looked like a button!

Paul_York

True, but then you need to mimic the mouse-over state & the "depressed" state to do it properly and make it look and feel like a button - oh and you'd need to resize it depending upon the caption.

 

I've worked through this now as we had a script library for V7 that has now been "partially" adapted to be V9 aware and this section is now working again

Robert Vignerot

The Drill-Down mechanism used by Status fields and Reports is now documented in the Web Client Configuration section of the documentation.  Look under Query String parameters in the Drill-Down section.  So you can use this to programmatically pass data into a child form from a client script.