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    how to close all dynamic panels

    I am opening multiple dynamic panels on a PanelNavigator. I'd like to be able to close ALL of those dynamic panels without having to know the name/title of each. I am playing with saving and restoring the panel state with "<panelObject>.getState();" and that might work out.
    Steve Wood
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    Re: how to close all dynamic panels

    I believe that you can dynamically get all the names/titles via:

    var arrayOfPanels = {dialog.object}.getPanelObject().panels;

    Then run through that array to get just the names of all the panels. Well actually, run through the array to get the names and some other key/value that allows you to filter out which panels that you added dynamically.

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      #3
      Re: how to close all dynamic panels

      I could not find a way to get an array of open Dynamic panels or to Simply close any open panels. I'm toying now with the brute force method of simply refreshing the browser upon logout. That does work to close all of the Dynamic panels but I would prefer a softer solution.
      Steve Wood
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        #4
        Re: how to close all dynamic panels

        To tell you the truth, I'm not clear on what the term opening dynamic panels means.

        Do you mean programmatically adding and deleting (destroying) a couple of panel cards to a panel navigator
        or
        programmatically docking and hiding panel cards in a panel layout?

        Or panel overlays? Or panel overlays that are windows?
        Or container windows having a "panel" Sub-theme?

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          #5
          Re: how to close all dynamic panels

          The problem is that Alpha doesn't give you any indication that a PanelCard is Dynamic. A property would have been nice.
          What does seem to be available is the panel name. A Dynamic PanelCare Name is a string 32 characters long.

          Get the PanelCard object with .getPanelObject()
          Get the panels property of that object... it will be an array.
          Loop through the panels testing the panels name property. If it has a length of 32 then you have a dynamic PanelCard.
          Remove it with pObj.removePanel()

          Remember that if you do this in a loop, your pObj will change - it's Dynamic PanelCards are no longer there... so you'll need to reduce your loop counter by 1.

          Or, loop through the panels array... and when you find a Dynamic PanelCard... add it's name to an array.
          Once done looping through panels array, then loop through your new array of Dynamic PanelCards, removing them.

          If you have named any non-Dynamic PanelCards with a name of 32 characters, then you're in trouble... so watch out for that.

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            #6
            Re: how to close all dynamic panels

            When adding the panel cards programmatically, we could also prefix the panel name with something like: DynPanel_Group1_[panelID]
            Right?
            Then loop through removing the panels we want based on matching parts of the prefixes.

            Just an idea; I haven't tried it.

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              #7
              Re: how to close all dynamic panels

              Yes... good idea Jeff. In that case you'd use the Dynamic PanelCard title... not the name. The name property is set by Alpha... I don't think you can get to it before it's created. It's a 32 character guid.

              But the title you get to set... so if you set it like "DP_ViewPDF1" and "DP_ViewPDF2" then you can just look for a panels title starting with "DP_"... and shove that panels name into an array for removal.

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                #8
                Re: how to close all dynamic panels

                Thanks, this is the script I ended up with:

                var pnObj = {dialog.object}.panelGet('PANELNAVIGATOR_1').panels;
                var arrayLength = pnObj.length;
                for(var i = 1;i < arrayLength;i++){
                {dialog.object}.panelRemove('PANELNAVIGATOR_1',pnObj[1].name);
                }


                Notes:

                - I had to get a pointer to my PanelNavigator where all of my DynamicPanels are set rather than just .getPanelObject().
                - I am running the panelRemove statement starting at 1 rather than 0 because the first panel is the "Dashboard" which I do not want to remove.
                - In the panelRemove statement I am always removing panel one because, as David said, the panel ID's drop by one each time a panel is removed. So I have to use 1 rather than the index variable i.
                Steve Wood
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