Secondary "home" form launched by a button

[alextouch]

Hi,

is there a way to launch a secondary "home" form from a button?
Or better, I want to put in a launch form 2 buttons, say "DEPARTMENT 1", "DEPARTMENT 2", and clicking on each button will launch a new "nuhome2" or "nuhome3" in which I put same buttons (say HR, INVOICES, and so on), each filtered by department name.

Thank you
Alessandro

[kev1n]

Hi Alessandro,

You could try this:

Launch Form: Add an onclick handler to each button to set the department.

button_onclick_custom_code.png

Lauch Screen nuhome2: Add some custom code to retrieve set the department name as Hash Cookie

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if (nuFormType() == 'edit') {
  nuSetProperty("DEPARTMENT", window.department);
}

Buttons on nuhome2:

Add a Filter #DEPARTMENT#

[alextouch]

Kevin,

I tried to do as you say, but when I open form from a button in nuHome2 filtered by #DEPARTMENT#, it displays nothing.
If I do a nuDebug(nuHash()) in BB of the form, there is [filter] => #DEPARTMENT#, that isn't the value of the hash variable but the variable itself.

Maybe there is something wrong I did.

[kev1n]

Alessandro,

You must be doing something different. This is my understanding:

Launch Screen (Launch 0) :

Button "Launch Form1" (with onclick event, containing a JS that sets window.department)
Button opens "Launch 1"


Launch Screen (Launch 1) :

Custom Code in Launch Form

Button "Button00" (with Filter #DEPARTMENT#)

Button opens A Browse Screen

run_filter.png

Browse Screen

Add nuDebug(nuHash()) to view the filter

[alextouch]

Kevin,

I did EXACTLY what you wrote and I see that if I do: launch0->button0->launch1->button1->browse form, the browse is empty and the nuDebug(nuHash()) shows this:

nudebug.png

But if I go a step back in the breadcrumb and then return to browse screen, filter appears to be correct like you can see here:

nudebug2.png

[kev1n]

Add some code to debug. The first thing to check is to see if window.department contains the department string:

if (nuFormType() == 'edit') {
nuSetProperty("DEPARTMENT", window.department);

alert('Launch 1, window.department: ' + window.department);
}

[alextouch]

Kevin,

I tried to do as you say:

alert('Launch 1, window.department: ' + window.department); IT'S OKAY, it displays the right string.

This is the RUN tab of button from launch1:

object_run.png

and this is the result from console log after click on button:

console_log.png

If i click on previous breadcrumb entry and then re-click button:

console_log2.png

[kev1n]

New attempt: Change the JavaScript code as follows:

-> Replace the Button IDs (Button01, Button02 etc.)

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function replaceBtnHashCookie(id, hCookie, value) {
  var c = $('#' + id).attr('onclick');
  $('#' + id).attr('onclick', c.replace(hCookie, value));
}

if (nuFormType() == 'edit') {

  var hCookie = "DEPARTMENT"
  nuSetProperty(hCookie, window.department);

  replaceBtnHashCookie('Button01', '#' + hCookie + '#', window.department);
  replaceBtnHashCookie('Button02', '#' + hCookie + '#', window.department);

}

[alextouch]

PERFECTLY WORKING!
Nice one!

Thank you Kevin!

Alessandro

[kev1n]

Cool