Hi Danel
here's the solution that worked:
<field name="calcTest" title="Calculate cost:"
widget-style="buttontext">
<hyperlink
target="javascript:ajaxUpdateArea(
'calcContainer',
'testGroovyCalc',
'message=${productId}');"
target-type="plain"
description=""
image-location="/images/mini-calculator.png"
image-title="Calculate">
</hyperlink>
</field>
<field name="calcContainer" title=" "
id-name="DisplayCalcContainer" ><container/></field>
I also found an example in the codebase under Catalog -> Stores -> facility
that was useful
thanks for the pointers
kind regards
Ernest
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 2:52 PM Daniel Watford <d...@foomoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Ernest,
>
> I'm not aware of any examples in OFBiz that exactly fit your use case. You
> may implement a solution using javascript to send your request to the
> testCalc service and then apply the results to the current form.
>
> An example of executing javascript from clicking a hyperlink can be seen in
> the Example plugin:
> https://demo-next.ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/FormWidgetExamples and
> is defined by the following element in FormWidgetExampleForms.xml:
>
> <field name="targetUrlButton"
> title="${uiLabelMap.SignedInAuthToAnotherDomain}"
> widget-style="buttontext"
> tooltip="${uiLabelMap.SignedInAuthToAnotherDomainTooltip}">
> <hyperlink also-hidden="false" target-type="plain"
> description="${uiLabelMap.TargetURL}" target="${targetUrl}"/>
> </field>
>
>
> Another approach, albeit not one I have experimented with, is the
> on-event-update-area element. See example
> https://demo-next.ofbiz.apache.org/example/control/authview/findExampleAjax
> .
> In this example, screen ExampleAjaxScreens.xml#AjaxExample is rendered
> containing screens ListExampleFormOnly and CreateExampleFormOnly.
>
> Screen CreateExampleFormOnly includes form
> ExampleForms.xml#EditExampleBackgroundSubmit.
>
> Form EditExampleBackgroundSubmit has an on-event-update-area element
> directing OFBiz to update the ListExamplesAjax area (i.e. the form on the
> ListExampleFormOnly screen) when the EditExampleBackgroundSubmit form is
> submitted.
>
> If you trace the network calls in your web browser's development tools, you
> will see that submitting the EditExampleBackgroundSubmit form does not
> reload the page. Instead a post request is made to endpoint
> createExampleAjax to create the new Example record. A post is then made to
> the ListFormExampleOnly endpoint, retrieving the new contents of the list
> and displaying on the page.
>
> There might be a solution for your use case where your Calculate C button
> is on a small form adjacent to your Product Measures form. The form
> containing the button would have on-event-update-area configured to update
> the Product Measures form following a submit event.
>
> Please let us know how you get on.
>
> Dan.
>
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 at 04:19, Ernest Hocking <ernest.hock...@computer.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I'd like to use groovy to implement some business logic and call that
> logic
> > from a button in a form.
> >
> > E.g Add a button on the product measures form to calculate the volume
> > given a product's dimensions.. I've tried
> >
> > <field name="calcTest" title=" " widget-style="buttontext">
> > <hyperlink description="Calculate C" target="testCalc"
> > also-hidden="false">
> > <parameter param-name="scale-factror"/>
> > <!-- e.g add an allowance for packing material -->
> > </hyperlink>
> > </field>
> > I can call/test the service "testCalc" from webtools etc but not use the
> > button.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to an example in the existing code base that I can
> use
> > as a reference model.
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > Ernest
> >
>
>
> --
> Daniel Watford
>
