This is doable with a JavaScript Snippet. If your button (Page Title, Table Row/Global/Mass Action, Wizard, or unattached) is set to the type of “Custom”, then you can specify the name of a Snippet to execute. Supposing that the Object you want to update is Case, and you have a Model called “CaseData”, with one row in it, and you want to update the “Status” field to be a certain value, e.g. ‘Escalated’, and then want to immediately save that Model, here’s what your snippet code would look like:

var CaseModel = skuid.model.getModel('CaseData'); var CaseRow = CaseModel.getFirstRow(); CaseModel.updateRow(CaseRow,'Status','Escalated'); CaseModel.save(); 

Awesome - so easy! Every time you post a solution like this it gets me more excited to see a reference for the Skuid object model, so I can figure more of these things out myself, and come up with cool enhancements. Extrapolating from this will become very handy.

Can I used this same method to update multiple fields? How would the code look for that?

This is cool, you guys!

The best way to update multiple fields is to use a version of updateRow which passes in the field/value pairings as a JavaScript object:

var CaseModel = skuid.model.getModel('CaseData'); var CaseRow = CaseModel.getFirstRow(); CaseModel.updateRow(CaseRow,{ 'Status' : 'Escalated', 'Priority' : 'High', 'My_Custom_Field__c' : 'Hello World', 'OwnerId' : skuid.utils.userInfo.userId }); CaseModel.save(); 

Excellent. This makes great sense.

Is there any way to accomplish this same thing without javascript? Specifically, creating a button that each time you click it moves the record through the picklist options for Status. So first click, changes from “New” to “In Progress” and second click changes from “In Progress” to “Complete”, etc

Hi Ashley, you could do it quite simply actually

Using your example, Create 2 button 

1st button: add action to Change it to “In Progress” + save and a rendering condition to only make it appear it when field = “New”

2nd button: add action to Change it to “Complete” + save  and a rendering condition to only make it appear it when field= “In Progress”

And so on…

For the end user they will never see the difference, as only 1 button would appear at a time

Hope it helps

Thank you!