Creating a popup from XML in Skuid V2

Hi Tim,

Confirmed, createPopupFromPopupXML() does not work in V2. Our Product Content team is reviewing this to have this API method removed from the V2 developer documentation, as it should not be present there, and the team is doing a more extensive review to verify that there are not other improperly documented methods which are in the V2 docs that should not be present there.

The recommended successor to this method, which works in V1 as well by the way, is to create an Action Sequence which creates the popup (and does any other preliminary model loading, block UI, etc. that you might need to do before showing the popup), and then just invoke the Action Sequence from your snippet… if you indeed need to be invoking it from a snippet at all. I’d highly recommend trying to find a declarative way to do this, as there probably is one, BUT if you really need to be invoking the popup from the Snippet, I would use the following:

skuid.actionSequences.getByName(“Show Quote builder”).run();

OR to make sure that if you change the action sequence’s name, nothing breaks, use getById():

skuid.actionSequences.getById("“82793f2e-b6b1-40dd-93ac-5cc0d7192b5d”).run();

Zach,

Thank you for the quick reply. We are creating a few different popups via the snippet based on the response of a callout. I don’t think we will be able to call the popups 100% declaratively, but invoking the declarative popup action sequence from the snippet will be a great solution for us. Thanks again!

Tim, one thing you might be able to leverage here is Inputs for your reusable Action Sequences — you can make an Action Sequence, and in your case any popups that are shown, more dynamic, by declaring Inputs for the Action Sequence, and then invoking the sequences with different inputs from your snippets:

Let’s say you want to selectively load different Models before showing a popup. You could declare an input in your Action Sequence called “modelToLoad” of type “Model”, and then have a “Query Model” action which loads the Model passed in through the Input, and then you can invoke the Action Sequence this way:

skuid.actionSequences.getById(““82793f2e-b6b1-40dd-93ac-5cc0d7192b5d”).run({
   modelToLoad: “Accounts”
});

and somewhere else you could do this:

skuid.actionSequences.getById(”“82793f2e-b6b1-40dd-93ac-5cc0d7192b5d”).run({
   modelToLoad: “Contacts”
});

Not sure if that will help in your case — but, just some ideas.