Contextual Action from Dashboard

available since version 11.0

This example shows how to create a contextual button on a PA chart rendered in portlet of a dashboard. Click on the button will cause creation of a new Action Item with given Action Item Type, and with provided values.

Note, that this button is visible only when you move mouse over the chart.

To configure such Contextual Action, on configuration page for Advanced Configuration Options, add a new application property with:

the name must start with prefix “pfxContextualAction_”, for example “pfxContextualAction_DashboardAction”.
with following JSON value

{
    "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}"
		}
    }
}

Replacements will be changed at the moment when the system creates the button on an actual page in front-end.

{dashboardName}
{dashboardInputs}
{dashboardPreference}
{dashboardTypeddId}
{portletName}
{portletLabel}
{resultType}

For details on the context linking parameters, see Context Linking.