Adding a warning message to a task form

lilianc over 8 years ago

Hello Appian Community

I'm upgrading a QuickApp to validate days off in my team: users fill a form with a start date, an end date and his current project team then when submitted a task is sent to supervisors to validate the day off request.
I'd like to create a warning message that would appear on the validation interface when at least 2 users have sent days off requests for the same date.
You can find an example in the mock up attached.

What I'd like to do is displaying a message when a validator reads a task matching the case above (as read-only forms). I don't know what expression to use.
I'm new to this so your help would be really appreciated :)

WarningMessage_mockUp.pptx

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0 Ashvin Kapur over 8 years ago

@Lilian, it seems that you would need to set up a query such that it returns all requests where there are overlapping days off. Then, you would set up a simple if() statement that says, if there are overlapping days, return a sectionLayout above your existing one with a richtextField displaying your message. If not, display nothing. I'm not sure if this answers your question, but if you give more specifics on your question, hopefully I can help more.
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0 ChristineH
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over 8 years ago

I agree with the above. Save the data to the db after the submission. Have a query to check on the SAIL form. If count>1, then show a section with rich text or even an image to make it even bigger and bolder.
This approach achieved the type of result you were looking for in my use cases. Hope it helps!
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0 lilianc over 8 years ago

Thanks for your quick answers guys, I'll do my best to integrate add them to the expression
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