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available Available since version Paper Plane 11.0. |
This example shows how to create a contextual button on a PA Analytics chart rendered in portlet of a dashboard portlet. Click on Clicking the button will cause result in creation of a new Action Item with a given Action Item Type, and with provided values.
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Note, that this : This button is visible only when you move your mouse over the chart.
To configure such a Contextual Action, on configuration page for go to Advanced Configuration Options, and add a new application property with:
the The name must start with prefix “pfxContextualAction_”, for example “pfxContextualAction_DashboardAction”.
with The property contains the following JSON value:
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{
"name": "actin_create_simple_action_from_dashboard",
"labelTranslations": {
"": "Create Action"
},
"page": "dashboardPage",
"order": 0,
"contextLinking": {
"targetPage": "newActionPage",
"targetPageTarget": "new",
"targetPageEntityType": "ActIn_DashboardSimpleAction",
"targetPageInputs": {
"sourceContext" : {
"ContextLinkingButton_DashboardName": "{dashboardName}",
"ContextLinkingButton_PortletName": "{portletName}",
"ContextLinkingButton_DashboardPortletPreference": "{dashboardPreference}",
"ContextLinkingButton_DashboardInputs": "{dashboardInputs}"
}
},
"targetPageFields":{
"originatorTypedId": "{dashboardTypeddId}",
"summary": "{dashboardName}-{portletName}-action",
"description": "This action was created from dashboard {dashboardName} with portlet: {portletLabel}"
}
}
}
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Replacements will be changed at the moment when the system creates the button on an actual page in front-endfrontend. See also a list of available placeholders for dashboardPage.
For details on the context linking parameters, see Context Linking.