Confirmation Messages
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The Confirmation messages can be added to Actionflows, e.g. Save, Delete, etc. by inserting an additional savesave action inserts or updates records in a selected table.
Save actions only save attributes mapped into them. However, if the Save action has Auto Save Attributes enabled, this saves unmapped attributes from the input form or view, matched by identifier. This finds the attribute associated with a field that was created by dropping the attribute onto a form.
Note: Save actions must be attached to a table with a Type of Transactional. Reword? "Save actions will only insert or update records in tables with the Type of Transactional."
Creating Save Actions
Click before the Actionflow processing phase, i.e. where the Save, Delete, etc. action is.
A confirmation phase is useful where the user must:
- Confirm an action before continuing
- Choose an option to determine which phase runs
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Confirmation ScreensConfirmation messages require two screens: - An initiator screen where the required action (e.g. delete) is initiated from
- A confirmation screen that contains the confirmation message, plus buttons to confirm/proceed or cancel/go back
- the button for confirm/proceed must be set up with an Action Type of Confirmation
- the button for cancel/go back must be set up with an Action Type of Close Screen
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- The Serene Grey palette contains a template confirmation screen with preconfigured Confirm and Cancel buttons
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Confirmation - this setup allows the Confirm button to trigger the next phase in the Actionflow
- On the initiator screen, set up the Actionflow for the required action, e.g. Delete
- Open the Actionflow for the required action, and above the Actionflow canvas, click the
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- On the confirmation phase, select Click to Connect and choose the Input of On Click
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savesave icon from the toolbar onto the canvasIn the Create Save Action window:- Enter a name
- Choose a Type:
- Auto Insert/Update - Insert or update records using the following condition:
- If the input data passes in the primary key of an existing record, the save action updates the record in the chosen table
- If the input data does not pass in the primary key of an existing record, the save action inserts a new record in the chosen table
- Insert - Always insert a new record into the chosen table
- Update - Always update a record for the chosen table. For a record to update successfully a primary key must be provided.
- Choose the Table from the drop down where the records will be inserted or updated
- Select Create Action
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- Drag the confirmation screen onto the Actionflow to create an
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Worked Example
Here's a worked example using the School Data (available from the Learning Centre).
In this example, we are using:
- A Course Management screen containing a grid of the School Courses data - this screen was created using the Tile with Buttons template
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Earlier in this course we created two Open Screen Actionflows that open an input form for adding and editing courses to the School Courses grid. In this example we will configure the Save action.
Note: When creating a new input form in PhixFlow, a Form Actions wizard can configure the Save Record and Delete Record actions for you. For the purposes of understanding the mechanics of Actionflows, we will create these manually.
Setting up a Confirmation Screen
In order to use a screen as a confirmation it must be set up a certain way.
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We want to add a confirmation screen that appears when users delete a course on the Course Management screen. In this example we will insert a Confirmation phase into an Actionflow to show a confirmation message before a Delete Action is processed.
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- Open Maximised: toggle off
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A generic confirmation screen - Please select a Template, choose
Confirmation - Click Create Screen.
- The screen will be created and will automatically open
- Close the Add Attributes window that opens
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- We can see that the Actionflow is working because when you press Confirm on the Confirmation Screen
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