Adding an Add New dialog to Select Value

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Users often want to add missing reference data on the fly, without navigating to the corresponding Background Data view. For example, when adding a new employee, the administrator may also need to add a new employee standard in the same view.

To implement this feature, define a view that contains the custom Add New form, and reference it from the Select Value command via the addNewDialog property:

<command type="selectValue" ...
     addNewDialog="ab-ex-prg-form-select-value-add-new-dialog.axvw">

View example: http://localhost:8080/archibus/schema/ab-products/solutions/programming/form/ab-ex-prg-form-select-value-add-new.axvw

If you want to enable or disable the Add new button, there are a few ways to do it using the s howAddNewButton property:

• Use the .axvw:
  <command type="selectValue"
fieldNames="em.em_std"
selectFieldNames="emstd.em_std"
visibleFieldNames="emstd.em_std"
showAddNewButton="false"
addNewDialog="ab-ex-prg-form-select-value-add-new-dialog.axvw"/>
  

• Use a JS API call instead of a command, such as:
  View.selectValue({ ... showAddNewButton:true|false ... });

For information, see http://localhost:8080/archibus/schema/ab-products/solutions/programming/svg/ab-ex-prg-form-select-value-add-new.axvw , which demonstrates both techniques.