Inline Status Update in Read-Only Grid

RE: Inline Status Update in Read-Only Grid

Mathieu Drouin — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:35:10 GMT

100%. If you are manually updating statuses, you've basically back building to a basic CRUD app which defeats the purpose.

If you are intent on doing it the way you described, a simple writeRecords on the dropdown field will do the trick. It will update once you tab out of the field.

RE: Inline Status Update in Read-Only Grid

Konduru Chaitanya — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:44:53 GMT

Hello prashantk3550

I agree with Stefan, you would not want to perform the update in such a way. Instead use record actions and show a confirmation to the user that there is a change being done. If you are talking about bulk updates call this whole data in a editable grid In a record action, where you would have a dropdown to select the status and the rest would be read-only. On submit you can update all the records.

RE: Inline Status Update in Read-Only Grid

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:41:12 GMT

I think, the most Appian-like approach is, to design a related action that allows to change the status. Add that action to the grid using a recordActionField.

But, that's not like I try to think about implementing a business process. Changing the status of something is not what the user should do directly, but something that happens as the intermediary or final result of a business process.