Links on buttons

Question

Why do buttonWidgets not have a linkField property? It would be ideal if they did.

David J (NTT DATA) · Accepted Answer

You can achieve the behavior you mention in various ways in Appian, and if you need to have the same look and feel, you can ,for example, use tagfields with recordLink, use a link Function...

Varun Teja Gurrapu · Answer

Hi Alexis Díaz Fajardo , It's an appian thing, instead you can use a!dynamicLink(), to save any data by saveInto field. There are multple functions still supports in saveInto field of button. But if you want a linkfield you can use following components: 
 1. Card Layout, 2. RichTextIcon,RichTextItem. 3. StampField 4. Tags(Record Link) 
 etc., according to your requirement.

Mathieu Drouin · Answer

Here is an example of using a CardLayout to simulate a button with a link. 
 a!sectionLayout(
 label: "Form",
 contents: {
 a!localVariables(
 local!selected,
 a!columnsLayout(
 columns: {
 a!columnLayout(
 contents: {
 a!buttonArrayLayout(
 buttons: {
 a!buttonWidget(label: "Standard Button", style: "SOLID")
 }
 )
 }
 ),
 a!columnLayout(
 width: "NARROW",
 contents: {
 a!cardLayout(
 showBorder: false,
 showShadow: false,
 style: "ACCENT",
 padding: "EVEN_LESS",
 marginAbove: "NONE",
 marginBelow: "NONE",
 contents: a!richTextDisplayField(
 align: "CENTER",
 marginAbove: "NONE",
 marginBelow: "LESS",
 value: {
 a!richTextItem(text: upper("Card Button"), color: "ACCENT")
 }
 ),
 link: a!dynamicLink(
 value: "BUTTON_VALUE",
 saveInto: local!selected
 )
 )
 }
 )
 }
 )
 )
 }
) 
 Improved version from the one I posted in this thread: community.appian.com/.../card-layout

Links on buttons

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