In this 5 part series of blog posts I will share my understanding of how you can open modal dialogs with dynamic values.
For example: Map Selector
I want to select a certain position from a map. The map is called by a button and displayed via a modal dialog. The parameter for the default position are defined on the parent page. After I have chosen a particular position on the map the Latitude and Longitude parameter should be transmitted back towards the parent page.
In this introduction I will explain how you can do it with "Standard APEX" functionality.
On my main page 10 I have several search items (like City, Street...) , two return items (Lat, Lon) and a button called SEARCH. The button executes a standard "Submit Page".
In the processing area I add a branch "After Submit" which gets executed by the SEARCH button. The branch process will open page 11 and will transmit all search parameters.
Info: This way opening a modal dialog may not work below APEX 18.1
Now the modal dialog will open. On page load a dynamic action gets executed to create the map:
vAddress =
apex.item('P11_CITY').getValue() + ' ' +
apex.item('P11_POSTAL_CODE').getValue() + ' ' +
apex.item('P11_STREET').getValue() + ' ' +
apex.item('P11_HOUSE_NUMBER').getValue()
vDiameter = apex.item("P11_DIAMETER" ).getValue();
apex.event.trigger(document, 'showOpenLayersMap', [{address: vAddress, diameter:vDiameter}]);void(0);
In that little code snippet above I create a single string "address" and a diameter parameter to pass into the map function. Which is by the way created on page 0 as a custom dynamic action named "showOpenLayersMap".
My showOpenLayersMap function is doing all the magic. In the moment the end user is doing a double click on a certain position inside the map a trigger executes a custom dynamic action on page 11 named "setLatLon".
...
apex.event.trigger(
document,
'setLatLon',
[{latitude:coordinatesItems[1], longitude:coordinatesItems[0]}]
);
...
This one fires 3 TRUE actions to return the Latitude and Longitude parameter to page 10:
1. Execute JavaScript Code
apex.item("P11_LON" ).setValue(this.data.longitude);
apex.item("P11_LAT" ).setValue(this.data.latitude);
2. Execute PL/SQL Code
:P10_LON := :P11_LON;
:P10_LAT := :P11_LAT;
3. Execute JavaScript Code
parent.location.reload();
Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to send the items back to the parent page dynamically. I just couldn't react on the "Dialog Closed" event. I think it has to do with the explicit submit. The dynamic action handler has no idea about the modal dialog.
Ps.: A separate blog post about open layers and open street map will come later...
First of all: Why would you need that?
There are particular business cases where your modal dialog (page 2) uses data from the parent page (page 1) which was created during runtime.For example: Map Selector
I want to select a certain position from a map. The map is called by a button and displayed via a modal dialog. The parameter for the default position are defined on the parent page. After I have chosen a particular position on the map the Latitude and Longitude parameter should be transmitted back towards the parent page.
In this introduction I will explain how you can do it with "Standard APEX" functionality.
On my main page 10 I have several search items (like City, Street...) , two return items (Lat, Lon) and a button called SEARCH. The button executes a standard "Submit Page".
In the processing area I add a branch "After Submit" which gets executed by the SEARCH button. The branch process will open page 11 and will transmit all search parameters.
Info: This way opening a modal dialog may not work below APEX 18.1
Now the modal dialog will open. On page load a dynamic action gets executed to create the map:
vAddress =
apex.item('P11_CITY').getValue() + ' ' +
apex.item('P11_POSTAL_CODE').getValue() + ' ' +
apex.item('P11_STREET').getValue() + ' ' +
apex.item('P11_HOUSE_NUMBER').getValue()
vDiameter = apex.item("P11_DIAMETER" ).getValue();
apex.event.trigger(document, 'showOpenLayersMap', [{address: vAddress, diameter:vDiameter}]);void(0);
In that little code snippet above I create a single string "address" and a diameter parameter to pass into the map function. Which is by the way created on page 0 as a custom dynamic action named "showOpenLayersMap".
My showOpenLayersMap function is doing all the magic. In the moment the end user is doing a double click on a certain position inside the map a trigger executes a custom dynamic action on page 11 named "setLatLon".
...
apex.event.trigger(
document,
'setLatLon',
[{latitude:coordinatesItems[1], longitude:coordinatesItems[0]}]
);
...
This one fires 3 TRUE actions to return the Latitude and Longitude parameter to page 10:
1. Execute JavaScript Code
apex.item("P11_LON" ).setValue(this.data.longitude);
apex.item("P11_LAT" ).setValue(this.data.latitude);
2. Execute PL/SQL Code
:P10_LON := :P11_LON;
:P10_LAT := :P11_LAT;
3. Execute JavaScript Code
parent.location.reload();
Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to send the items back to the parent page dynamically. I just couldn't react on the "Dialog Closed" event. I think it has to do with the explicit submit. The dynamic action handler has no idea about the modal dialog.
Ps.: A separate blog post about open layers and open street map will come later...
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