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bihitakd0001
June 22, 2021
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Retain form on page submission

  • June 22, 2021
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Hi ,
If we have 2 rows of buttons which holds separate SAIL forms on each button click, i.e. calls different SAIL UIs with a choose function. And I want to submit the form and come back to the same selected button. Is there any way to do this ? Because once I click on a submit button configured in any of the SAIL UI, it is taking me back to the first selected button called SAIL, rather than staying on the same button SAIL UI.
Is there any way I can stay on the same page the button was selected once I submit where submit is true ?

For Example :- 
Row 1 is having Tab 1, Tab 2, Tab 3 and so on
If I select a tab from Row 1 then in Row 2 I see sub tabs ex- on selection of Tab 1 I will see Tab 1.1, Tab 1.2, Tab 1.3 and so on
Now if I am on Tab 1.3 and want to submit my form, I expect Appian to stay on same tab i.e. 1.3. But it is going to the first sub tab i.e. 1.1
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Is this a normal behavior in Appian or some issue with implementation

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    pratikshap
    Participating Frequently
    June 22, 2021

    After form submit if you again loop back to same form in Process model with row1 selected button value and row2 selected button value it will retain , I have tried this...is working.

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    bihitakd0001Author
    June 22, 2021

    Thanks

    mikes0011
    mikes0011
    Brainy
    June 22, 2021

    Appian loads the default values for a form every time it's reloaded, other than what you pass in as rule inputs.  For this use case it's pretty easy to have your submit button pass a value out (via a new Rule Input) that you then save into your process instance, and pass back into the form (via the same rule input usually) when it's reloaded, and your logic on the form would simply need to reflect that it needs to default to a value that was passed-in from the process (if there was one), otherwise the normal default.

    The Expression Guru
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    bihitakd0001Author
    June 22, 2021

    Thanks

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