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    Jumping to a control on a long UX?

    Hey everyone,

    I have a UX thats fairly long, the user has to scroll down on a mobile device to answer all of it. Now, in the UX theres a button to jump to the "last answered question", such that if the user answers a question and scrolls up or down, they can hit this button to jump back to the question that was answered.

    I'm updating an invisible textbox with the control name of the last updated question, but I'm wondering if there is a way to jump back to this control on the UX?

    I've tried {dialog.Object}.setFocus(), but that simply puts the control in "focus", but doesn't necessarily put it in view.

    Thanks!
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    Re: Jumping to a control on a long UX?

    Instead of saving the Control Name in your last answered question control, save the Control Id.

    You don't say how you're getting your Control Name to save, but if you're using something like the onFocus Event then the Control id will be this.id. Your onFocus Event would be something like this...

    Code:
    {dialog.Object}.setValue('lastQuestion',this.id);

    Then, in your "Jump" button... you can do this...

    Code:
    var lastQuest = {dialog.Object}.getValue('lastQuestion');
location.href = "#" + lastQuest;
    Your Control Id will be something like... "DLG1.V.R1.STATUS". The "DLG1" part is always variable, but the control is rendered by this time... and you're getting and setting the rendered Id so I don't think you need to muck around with changing "DLG1" to {dialog.ComponentName} for this process.

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      #3
      Re: Jumping to a control on a long UX?

      Originally posted by Davidk View Post
      Instead of saving the Control Name in your last answered question control, save the Control Id.

      You don't say how you're getting your Control Name to save, but if you're using something like the onFocus Event then the Control id will be this.id. Your onFocus Event would be something like this...

      Code:
      {dialog.Object}.setValue('lastQuestion',this.id);

      Then, in your "Jump" button... you can do this...

      Code:
      var lastQuest = {dialog.Object}.getValue('lastQuestion');
location.href = "#" + lastQuest;
      Your Control Id will be something like... "DLG1.V.R1.STATUS". The "DLG1" part is always variable, but the control is rendered by this time... and you're getting and setting the rendered Id so I don't think you need to muck around with changing "DLG1" to {dialog.ComponentName} for this process.
      I've been saving all the IDs, thank you for the idea. I should've added earlier, do you think this will work on a bunch of embedded UXs? Can doing

      Code:
      location.href = "#" + lastQuest;
      Work on an embedded component? Right now I just switch over the panel when I select the continue button

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        #4
        Re: Jumping to a control on a long UX?

        As long you you're using the Control Id of the Embedded Component... and the Embedded Component is rendered... it should be ok.

        It all gets rendered into the DOM... and so... is available to location.href.

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          #5
          Re: Jumping to a control on a long UX?

          Originally posted by Davidk View Post
          As long you you're using the Control Id of the Embedded Component... and the Embedded Component is rendered... it should be ok.

          It all gets rendered into the DOM... and so... is available to location.href.
          Hmm...I must be doing something wrong then, or rather, i'm not getting the proper control ID of the child components? My code is looking similar to...
          Code:
          {dialog.Object}.panelSetActive('PANELPAGE1');
var cO = {dialog.Object}.getChildObject('SECTION1');
cO.location.href = "#"+control;
          I tried without the cO as well, but it keeps throwing errors. Perhaps I am not getting the control ID of the child component properly?

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            #6
            Re: Jumping to a control on a long UX?

            What you've posted is not the same as you were originally asking about.

            You should review the methods you've used to understand what they do... and... you should use the debugger to walk through your code to see what you're getting and where it's failing.

            .getChildObject() gets the full embedded child object... that's everything... all controls. The full child object is not something that actually has an id.

            Then, you attempt a location.href to "#" + control... but control is never defined in your code.


            If you're in an embedded UX, at a control, and you want to save that id, you would add this to a control's onFocus Event...

            Code:
            var po = {dialog.Object}.getParentObject();
po.setValue('lastQuestion',this.id);
            You've not detailed where you want to save this id... but let's assume your last question TextBox Control resides in the Parent. Then your code to jump to that id would be...

            Code:
            var ctrlJump = {dialog.Object}.getValue('lastQuestion');
location.href = "#" + ctrlJump;
            If you know of a control you want to jump to (your new question) then you'd need to get a pointer to the Embedded Child UX... and then get a pointer to the Control... and then jump to it's id.

            Code:
            var co = {dialog.Object}.getChildObject("childLongPage");
var ctrlText4 = co.getPointer('text3');
location.href = "#" + ctrlText4.id;
            Here, my Embedded Child UX has an Alias of "childLongPage". The method .getChildObject() requires the use of an alias.
            Once we have the Embedded UX Object, we get a pointer to the TextBox Control "text4" in that Child Object.
            Once we have a pointer to the Embedded Child UX TextBox Control, we can jump to it's id.

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