Customize Results Panel

Alexander Jakob

Hi.

We are facing the issue that we have no idea how to handle a specific requirement. We would have a workaround for this but we think it should be done more easily.

We have a Result Panel in a Layout.

We want to call a BPM and this BPM should get the values of column XY from all selected list entries.

Without any customization we would define an action rule which starts a process and in rootentityinstanceid we would have the itemid of a selected list entry. The problem is that the BPM behind the action rule runs for every selected entry. As a workaround we could open a form before running the BPM and let the users select the rows via another way.

But there is the checkbox "Customize panel" for the Results Panel. But the documentation is not understandable for us.

Is there a way how to customize the Result Panel so we can start a BPM with a comma separated list of values??

KR

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@Alexander Jakob The "customize panel" is explained at "Let's customize a result list panel on a homepage layout."

But do you really want to go into that rabbit hole? Running a BPM from an action is only possible (as with most logic) "in context" of the current entity; So selecting multiple instances from your list will set multiple contexts, starting multiple BPMs!

Your thinking from the form is a good step (as that's your single entity context). From there, you want to add your selectable rows from a toMany relation. Once in place, you add the webservice building block to the entity with a checkmark to get your toMany relation details. You can call this webservice in your BPM, which can loop over the toMany relations service response. Once done, you can even clear the relations again with a remove relations service call (if it's a temporary thingy).

Hope that helps you on your journey.
//Antal