Can I navigate to Interface from Interface on icon click

RE: Can I navigate to Interface from Interface on icon click

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:21:44 GMT

Ah, I forgot about #3. *thumbsup.jpg*

For #1, I hedged the language in my recommendation a bit, since I'm not really clear in what context OP's "interface" is in - it could be a record, report, etc, as far as we know.

RE: Can I navigate to Interface from Interface on icon click

davel001150 — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:19:33 GMT

There's a number of things you can do:

1. Put a submit link on the icon. Then your process continues, and you activity chain to a new User Input task so they see the new form right away.

2. Put a startProcess link on the icon. That starts a new process that could chain into a form or has a start form. It will drop you back into the form you were on when you're done with the whole process you called (the great difficulty there is you won't be able to return information from the process you started to the form, not without a database query or something like that).

3 Really fun one I think: You can put both form's code in the same definition. You can use a dynamic link to flip a boolean switch. Half the components are set to showWhen the switch is off, and the other half set to showWhen the switch is on. Now it only LOOKs like 2 forms, but it's really one.

As you advance in Appian experience I'm sure you can start thinking up even more interesting ways to do this.

RE: Can I navigate to Interface from Interface on icon click

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 16:32:31 GMT

What's your use case? What would the user be doing on each interface?

Is there any reason you can't have the icon utilize a Start Process Link, launching a process that would call Interface 2, with activity chaining?

Alternatively you could just have both interfaces be tasks in the same process model, and in that case the icon could be a Submit Link.