This page provides details of the properties for the open screen action node and associated expressions. These are part of actionflows.

Overview

To set the actionflow to close the active dashboard on completion, on the top right of the canvas, tick Close Parent Dashboard.

Properties

Parent Details

If this item is within or belongs to another, its parent name is shown here. See the Parent Details section on the Common Properties page for more details.

Basic Settings

Field	Description
Name	Enter the name for the action node.
Show in the Explorer	An application can have many actionflows, and an individual actionflow can have many actions. This can lead to many items being listed in the repository. Use this option to omit the action from the repository. Tick to display this action node in the repository. Untick to omit this action node from the repository.
Dashboard	Select a dashboard that the action will open. The dashboard can be selected using the drop down or List Screens. If the screen has not been created yet, create one using Add New. A warning symbol appears on the node if a screen has not been selected.
Input Connection Points	A list of all the connection points attached to the open screen node. See the details of these in

Input Connection Points

Each open screen node has 1 primary input connection point by default called 'screen'. Connecting to this connection point opens the screen and allows the user to map the following screen properties. (may not happen for v9)

Property	Type	Default Values if not set	Description
height	Number	find out	Sets the height of the screen
width	Number	find out	Sets the width of the screen
top	Number	find out	Sets the top position of the screen relative to the window
left	Number	find out	Sets the left position of the screen relative to the window
maximised	Boolean	whatever is set on the screen properties	True will open the dashboard in its maximised state. False will open the dashboard in its minimised state and will use the above properties.

Once a screen has been attached to the open dashboard node an input connection point for each form on the screen is created. Each input connection point automatically has any data fields on the form (dynamic text or form fields) added as attributes. These attributes can be mapped to and supplied with data.

Each input connection point has the following properties:

Field	Description
Name	The name of the input connection point
Role	Primary Simply opens the dashboard regardless of data Component Opens the dashboard and can provide forms with data
Type	This is always driving
Open Mode	update opens form fields with the latest data insert opens the screen with form fields empty change opens form fields with data
Attributes	A list of attributes available on the input connection point. These directly link to the fields available on the form. Only component connection points have attributes.

Type
This is always driving
Open Mode
update: opens form fields with the latest data (not clear, refresh)
insert: opens the screen with form fields empty (clear, not refresh)
change: opens form fields with data (not clear, not refresh)
Role
Primary: Simply opens the dashboard regardless of data
Component: Opens the dashboard and can provide forms with data
Attributes
A list of attributes available on the input connection point. These directly link to the fields available on the form. Only component connection points have attributes.

Calculate Action Expressions

Calculate actions process data using expressions; see pages in the topic Expressions and Scripts.

This section has a toolbar with standard buttons. The grid contains a list of the expressions that the calculate action will perform.

To add a new expression, in the section toolbar click Add New to open a new expression and set the properties.
To edit an existing expression, double-click it in the list to open its properties.
To remove an expression, select one and in the section toolbar click Permanently Delete. Todo-Fiona - check icon and label.

The expression properties has sections for Parent Details , Audit Summary and the following Basic Settings:

Field	Description
Name	Enter an expression name.
Type	Select one of the data types: Todo-Fiona - what does this do? String Bigstring Integer Float Decimal Date Datetime Graphic TrueFalse
An attribute name	Todo-Fiona - what does this do?
Expression	Enter an expression. To work in a larger pop-up window, click . See also: Expression Basics Internal Variables Functions
Order	Where the calculate action runs multiple expressions, enter a number to indicate the order in which this expression will be run. Remember that an expression that generates a value should run before an expression that uses the value.

Description

We recommend that you always enter a description to explain the purpose of this item.

Audit Tab

Audit Summary

See the Common Properties page, Audit Summary section.

Open Screen Nodes