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    Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

    Hi
    I understand that using the dialog genie you can control the order in which the dialog controls are completed.
    But is there a feature that allows different dialogs to be completed in a certain order, hopefully from a Tabbed UI. Or if not a feature then an approach to code that can achieve this.
    Thanks

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    Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

    This is what I need to do.

    The Tabbed UI has a bunch of buttons, in the order that they need to be. The top button is enabled, the rest are disabled. When user validates and successfully submits the embedded dialogs that are triggered by the first button, the next button down on the tabbed UI becomes enabled. Or alternatively all Tabbed UI buttons are enabled but from the 2nd Tabbed UI button down, an alert prevents them from opening unless the previous one has been successfully submitted. The enabled / disabled approach is preferable.

    Is this possible?
    Thanks.
    Last edited by hangbill; 12-30-2014, 08:23 AM.

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      #3
      Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

      In a tabbed ui you can have many ways to do this one would be the show/hide expression (properties area). One example of a show hide expression is
      Select_a_Fish = 'Redfish'
      where select a fish is the name of a textbox control and Redfish is one of the values in a dropdown. If this statement is placed in the show hide expression of a "Next" button then the button will not appear unless the control = the chosen value

      You may have to get creative to get just what you want, but it is certainly possible.
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        #4
        Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

        Thanks for responding Charles.
        I have used the show / hide property, very useful. In this app however do not want to hide the ui buttons. Need some other way to control the order in which the buttons are accessed. For eg in Access there is an 'enable' property that can be turned true or false, conditionally. Does not appear A5 has such a property but there might be some code that can achieve this.

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          #5
          Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

          Most controls also have an enable property in addition to show/hide. Typically those two properties are next to each other on the property sheet for UX & grids.
          Peter
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            Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

            Am using V11 and don't see any enabled property for the buttons on a Tabbed UI. And seems this is where the dialog flow would be controlled from. If there is no property is there a way to code it? If the button order is 1 and 2 then the code for button 2 would have to go something like "if button 1 opened a dialog and that dialog was successfully submitted then enable button 2 otherwise disable button 2". Maybe reference the submitted dialog directly, "if dialog x has been successfully submitted then enable button 2, otherwise disable button 2".

            Or does it mean that if there is no enabled property then there is no enabled property to code, and it cant be done.

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              #7
              Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

              Sorry, I didn't catch that you wanted to do this on a tabbed_Ui.
              Peter
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                Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                At the end of the day the app might have 200 plus dialogs, each with say 5-10 conditional reflex questions plus business rules. The dialogs will be embedded in say 30 plus other dialogs (logical groupings) and the tabbed ui was going to hang it all together. So was trying to build three fully functional dialogs, each with say 6 embedded dialogs and accessed from a tabbed ui menu. Wanted to see if this could be done so that don't get too far before realizing a significant functionality cannot be achieved. The tabbed ui thing is disappointing because the feature is so neat in other respects. Also, seems cannot do it all in one dialog so therefore cannot do the genie.

                For sure I need to control the order in which the application (like a humungous survey) is completed.
                Any ideas on other approaches?

                Thanks
                Last edited by hangbill; 12-31-2014, 08:51 PM.

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                  #9
                  Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                  How about building a UX as your menu? Then you have complete control.
                  Peter
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                    #10
                    Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                    Thanks Peter.
                    Not familiar with an UX, is this a v11 feature? Will see what I can read up on it ... might need pointers to get me going ...

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                      Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                      UX is the name for a dialog in v12. So to correct my previosu statement:

                      How about building a dialog2 as your menu? Then you have complete control.
                      Peter
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                        #12
                        Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                        Got it, will start working on that.
                        Thanks...

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                          #13
                          Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                          take a look at video d9 in version 11
                          is this something you can consider?
                          thanks for reading

                          gandhi

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                            Re: Dialog - Control Order in Which Dialogs are Completed

                            I dont think it will work Gandhi. Seems the genie is for a single dialog that has too many controls to comfortably fit on a single page. This app could never be built in a single dialog.
                            Need a solution that controls the order in which different dialogs open, dialog A before B, dialog B before C ... .
                            Have built a small working menu in a dialog component, the link buttons have the 'enabled' property which the buttons in the Tabbed UI do not have. Now just have to figure how to disable the link button in dialog B if dialog A has not yet been submitted.

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