Question a bout how to pop up interface as a dialog?

RE: Question a bout how to pop up interface as a dialog?

Jesse Knight — Tue, 24 May 2022 22:12:42 GMT

Mike SchmittI very much agree with this product enhancement. There are plenty of use cases where a record action needs the context of its own record identifier, but also the context of an indirectly-related record that is available on a dashboard. a!startProcessLink() gives us the capability to solve the use case, but it's a jarring change in UX when the process executes in the same flat UI rather than a pop-up. If we're trying to get our users used to Record Actions and the quick pop-ups they enable, we need a way to create the pop-up UX seamlessly regardless of the source of the process or interface.

RE: Question a bout how to pop up interface as a dialog?

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 14:29:33 GMT

One of my "product enhancement backlog wishlist" items is the ability to configure Start Process Links with the ability to open in a dialog just like Record Actions can. That would resolve a lot of currently clumsy corner cases for implementation, IMHO.

RE: Question a bout how to pop up interface as a dialog?

Naresh — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 13:46:04 GMT

As Richard mentioned, use show hide functionality to show different sections based on your condition. When user provide data in interface2 to save that data and update your interface 1 data according to your requirement.

RE: Question a bout how to pop up interface as a dialog?

Richard Michaelis — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:12:15 GMT

Short but perhaps simple questions:
why does it need to be a pop function? Can this affect archived by using showWhen conditions?

RE: Question a bout how to pop up interface as a dialog?

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:21:11 GMT

If the value has a one-to-one mapping with an entity, then you can create a record action and then use a!recordActionField().
The only way to have a popup on Appian is, like you said, related action.