3.03 Custom Confirmation Message Configuration
Custom Confirmation Messages
Custom confirmation messages are useful for displaying extra information that may help the user make a decision to proceed or go back. Bespoke messages can be added to confirmation screens using dynamic text components to display information, such as, names or totals. In addition, more than one confirm button may be required. These can perform similar functions, such as confirm only, or confirm and open another screen.
Creating simple confirmation screens is covered in the Actionflow Foundation Course. An extract from 1.13 Confirmation Message Configuration can be found below. A simple confirmation screen must be created before custom messages can be configured.
Configuring Custom Messages
Use dynamic text components on the confirmation screen to display messages containing attribute data, such as names, statuses and counts.
- On your confirmation screen, add dynamic text and static text components, as required, to create your message
- In this example, a number of static and dynamic text components have been used to create a message where the two company names can be dynamically mapped onto the screen and given different formats, e.g. bold, font size, etc.
- A similar result can be achieved using one dynamic text component if no formatting differences are required
- Open the Actionflow containing the Confirmation Phase
- Within the Confirmation Phase, map the attributes from the initiator screen onto the dynamic text components, e.g. company name
- Create counts by configuring lookups to additional data, then using countElements within an Output Attribute on a Calculate action
- See below worked example for full details on how to do this
Configuring Multiple Confirmation Buttons
Confirmation screens can contain multiple confirm buttons that perform similar functions, such as confirm only, or confirm and open another screen.
- On your confirmation screen, additional buttons can be added and configured with an Action Method of Other and an Action Type of Confirmation on their Actions tab
- On the Actionflow for the action, e.g. delete, ensure a Confirmation Phase is added before the Processing Phase, and that the Confirmation Phase contains an Open Screen action for the confirmation screen
- Right-click on the Open Screen node and choose Configure button mappings
- Create mappings for each confirmation button and click Confirm Mappings
- Hover over the Open Screen node to see the additional output connections
Worked Examples
Here's are worked examples using the Company Data (available from the Learning Centre).
In this example, we are using:
- A Company Management screen containing a grid of the Companies data and a card container of their associated Employees - this screen was created using the Multi-Tile template
- A Company Merger Pop up screen containing:
- two manual drop down fields of the company name's of the companies to be merged
- two string fields showing the company ID's of the companies to be merged
- a button to initiate the Actionflow - this screen was created using the Tile no Buttons template
- A Company Merger Confirmation screen containing a multiple static and dynamic text components, and buttons - this screen was created using the Confirmation template
- A Company Order Form screen containing form fields for the Orders data - this screen was created using the Edit Form template
If you are completing this chapter as part of the Actionflow course and using a training instance, the data and screens have already been pre-loaded into the Actionflow Advanced Application. For this example, we'll be working on the Company Merger Confirmation screen.
Example 1: Custom Merger Message
In this example, a company acquisition screen requires a custom confirmation message to show the company names, and the quantities of employees and orders that will be affected by the merge.
Prerequisites
For this example, we'll add a custom confirmation message to a company merger Actionflow. If you have not completed 3.02 Bulk Update Action Configuration, expand the section below and follow the steps to create the company merger Actionflow.
Lookup Setup
- Open the Company Merger Confirmation screen and familiarise yourself with the components available
- Open the Actionflow on the Run Acquisition button on the Company Merger Pop up screen
- Add a Phase before the Processing Phase
- Name:
Confirmation
- Name:
- Select the CompanyMerger datasource as the Input
- Map into the Actionflow the four attributes from the screen:
- CompanyIDBeingAcquired
- CompanyIDDoingAcquiring
- CompanyNameBeingAcquired
- CompanyNameDoingAcquiring
- Setup a Calculate action that will be used to process the lookup data
- Configure two lookups that will be used to retrieve the employees and orders for the company that is being acquired
Count and Open Screen Setup
Create two Output Attributes on the Calculate action that count the records being retrieved from the lookups
Create an output connector from the Calculate action, then click on the canvas to create an Open Screen action for the Company Merger Confirmation screen
Map across the two attributes you just created on the Calculate action and the two Company Name attributes from the input on the confirmation screen
Hover over the Company Merger Confirmation Open Screen action and click Confirm, then select anywhere on the canvas to connect to the Processing Phase
Testing
- Return to the Company Merger Pop up screen
- Select two companies from the drop downs and click Run Acquisition
- The Company Merger Confirmation screen should appear with the details of the selected companies mapped to the screen
- Choose Cancel or Confirm
Example 2: Multiple Confirmation Buttons
In this example, we'll configure a confirmation screen for a save company action that has two confirmation buttons - one button will just confirm the save and one button will confirm the save and create a new order for the company.
Lookup Setup
- Open the Actionflow on the Save button on the Company Form
- Rename the Processing Phase to
Save Only Phase
- Add a new phase after, Name:
Save and Add Phase
- Add a new phase before the Save Only Phase, Name:
Confirmation
Confirmation Phase Setup
- On the Confirmation Phase, configure an input of On Click
- Create an Open Screen action to open the Company Form Confirmation screen
- Map on the input
- Right-click on the Open Screen action and choose Configure button mappings to see the mappings for both confirmation buttons
Hover over the Open Screen action to see the two output connections, then connect Confirm to the Save Only Phase, and ConfirmAndAdd to the Save And Add Phase
Save and Add Phase Setup
- On the Save And Add Phase, configure an input of the CompanyForm datasource
- Map the CompanyID and CompanyName attributes into the Actionflow
- Set up a Save action to save data to the Companies table, ensuring Auto Save Attributes is toggled on
- Connect the input and map the CompanyID attribute to the Save action
- Create an Open Screen action to open the Company Order Form screen
- Map the Save action to the Open Screen action
- On the Mappings between the Save and Open Screen actions:
- Map the CompanyName attribute from the input to the CompanyName attribute on the screen
- Map the CompanyID attribute from the table (not the input) to the Customer_ID attribute on the screen
The CompanyID attribute is mapped from the table and not the input because for a new company an ID is not created until the record is saved to the table. If the CompanyID attribute was mapped from the input, it would be populated when saving an existing company but blank when creating a new company
Testing
- Open the Company Management screen
- Select either Add or Edit to open the Company Form
- Enter/change details for a company and press Save
- The confirmation screen will open, choose Yes + Create Order
- This will save the company and open the Company Order Form populated with the company name and ID of the company just created/edited