How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

codys — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:38:32 GMT

It doesn't make sense to duplicate the entire UI design in a custom HTML template, which has to be developed and maintained, and runs risk of becoming out of sync with the SAIL form. What you can do is write a generic utility that receive a SAIL interface as an input, parses the structure and converts it to HTML. We did this for one use case. However be warned that when we upgraded from 16.3 to 17.1 (I think) Appian changed the SAIL structure and our rules broke backwards compatibility with our parsing logic. We solved backwards compatibility by creating an intermediate custom Dictionary structure that can then be mapped either into a SAIL form or an HTML form. The Dictionary structure was something like:

{{label: "Section 1 Header", list: {"Section 1 Item 1", "Section 1 Item 2"}}, {label: "Section 2 Header", list: ...}}

We were fortunate our use case required a very simple structure that was nothing but sections with bullet lists under each section header. For more complex forms you would have a more complex structure and more complex parsing rules. But once established you would then be able to inject line breaks and print any arbitrary SAIL form the way you want. Whether this effort is justified depends on how important the line breaks are to the client.

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

davids0001 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 17:00:06 GMT

char(12) should be the form feed control character Unicode, which may serve as a page break

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

aloks0189 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:57:38 GMT

No, you can't plugin a HTML Template into a SAIL, the only thing which you can do is, you can create a similar template in HTML and fill the data submitted from form into html, dynamically.

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

siddardhas — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:52:47 GMT

Thanks Jamal. My understanding is that embedded interface is at ACTION/RECORDs/TASK level. Can we use that for one particular related action at a record level? Please advise. Thanks.

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

siddardhas — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 14:49:14 GMT

This Alok. For this I have to redesign the entire SAIL form to HTML template which is too much effort. Can we just plugin a HTML template component into our existing SAIL form?

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

aloks0189 — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 02:55:03 GMT

Hi siddardhas I believe you can go for HTML Template feature, where you can have some parameter defined for dynamic content, let's say ###body###, so you can directly form the html code using your expression and send that as a value to you html template, parameter which you have defined for dynamic body.

This will allow you to achieve your requirement in an easiest way.

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

vijayd — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 20:42:06 GMT

This is not possible in SAIL

RE: How can we add Page Break as a SAIL component?

Jamal Case — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 11:13:09 GMT

I don't think you can achieve this requirement in sail. You may need to use an external embedded interface.