3.6.5. Actions of the Picker Field (Legacy)

This is a legacy API. For new data API available since release 7.0, see Picker Field Actions.

For PickerField, LookupPickerField and SearchPickerField components, a set of standard actions is defined in the PickerField.ActionType enumeration. Implementations are inner classes of the PickerField interface, which are described in details below.

The example of standard actions usage in a picker component:

<searchPickerField optionsDatasource="coloursDs"
                 datasource="carDs" property="colour">
  <actions>
      <action id="clear"/>
      <action id="lookup"/>
      <action id="open"/>
  </actions>
</searchPickerField>

LookupAction

LookupAction – action with lookup identifier, intended for selecting an entity instance and setting it as the component’s value. When triggered, it opens an entities lookup screen.

The following specific methods are defined in the LookupAction class:

  • setLookupScreenOpenType() allows you to specify entity selection screen open mode. THIS_TAB by default.

  • setLookupScreen() allows you to specify entity selection screen identifier. {entity_name}.lookup by default, for example, sales$Customer.lookup. If such screen does not exist, attempts to open {entity_name}.browse screen, for example, sales$Customer.browse.

  • setLookupScreenParams() allows you to set selection screen parameters, passed into its init() method.

  • afterSelect() is invoked by the action after the selected instance is set as the component’s value. This method does not have implementation and can be overridden.

  • afterCloseLookup() is the last method invoked by the action after closing the lookup screen regardless of whether an instance has been selected or not. This method does not have implementation and can be overridden.

ClearAction

ClearAction - an action with clear identifier, intended for clearing (i.e. for setting to null) the value of the component.

OpenAction

OpenAction - action with open identifier, intended for opening an edit screen for the entity instance which is the current value of the component.

The following specific methods are defined in the OpenAction class:

  • setEditScreenOpenType() allows you to specify entity selection screen open mode. THIS_TAB by default.

  • setEditScreen() allows you to specify entity edit screen identifier. {entity_name}.edit screen is used by default, for example, sales$Customer.edit.

  • setEditScreenParams() allows you to set edit screen parameters, passed to its `init()`method.

  • afterWindowClosed() is invoked by the action after closing the edit screen. This method does not have implementation and can be overridden in inheritors to handle this event.