Select specific row in a only read component in an interface

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Hi all, 
 I have this issue: i want to select somehow a specified row in a!griedfield component, like ID 24 in the picture below, then start a process with some value taken from that row, with a submit buttom or something similar that can appear when the specified row is selected. Is it possible to achieve this goal? This is a screenshot of my site in which the element of the only read grid are taken from a recordtype, so this is why the ID is coloured in blue. 
 Thank you in advance for the responces.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

You have various options. Record Actions (assuming your grid is showing Record Data, which seems to be the case in your example) provide some of the biggest flexibility, since you could have the action open in a dialog if you'd like. Other options include using a!startProcess or a!startProcessLink, depending on what desired behavior you're after - it would be trivially easy to have either of these options start a process utilizing the ID from the selected row(s) from the grid.

Mathieu Drouin · Answer

Yes.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

albertob5031 said: Are there some code or some pratical example to follow? I'm new with Appian and i don't know how to do these operations. 
 That's a very large subject. A related action ties to a process model (consuming whatever context you pass in, usually at the very least passing in the current record and/or the record's identifier), and inside that process model you can do anything you want, attended (as in, taking the user to some task(s) to complete), or unattended (automatic, happens in the background only). I don't happen to know how much you do or don't already know about process modeling, or what-all you want to accomplish with the process in this case, so it's hard to really say. The configuration, though, is pretty simple, because it requires only that you correctly configure a related action. 
 albertob5031 said: when i click on the button i have the problem : "you don't have the permission 
 If you're not an Admin user in your environment then there's a good chance the process model configured for the action in question doesn't have security set up properly to allow you permission (though i'm surprised you'd be able to see it in the first place). If it's not that, then it's likely some other configuration issue, any of which would probably be fixed by following basic configuration steps (others here have already linked you to the documentation with the basic fundamentals).

Mike Schmitt · Answer

You can build a custom interface and/or call the record dashboard interface directly from your site if you don't want other views exposed by default (for this you'd reference the interfaces directly rather than having the user click through to the actual record entry). For everything else my main recommendation is that you just experiment and see what compromise works best for you.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

albertob5031 said: but they are very limitated 
 A related action can literally include anything you'd have in a process model. Judging by what can be "created automatically" here is not very useful.

Sanchit Gupta (Xebia) · Answer

This is the purpose why Related actions are created. You can create a logic to only select one row at a time in the grid and add the related action to your grid (only visible when any row is selected) in which you will pass the current row identifier.

Mathieu Drouin · Answer

You should be able to do that with a Record Action. 
 docs.appian.com/.../Record_Action_Component.html 
 Here are some UI examples: 
 docs.appian.com/.../ux-record-actions.html

Select specific row in a only read component in an interface

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