Creating Related Records within Drawers

I had a somewhat related, but slightly different issue with drawers and context. I created a separate page for everything I wanted to display in my drawer and included it in the drawer as a page include. Fixed my issue.

Thanks, Raymond! How would you format the query string of your page include? Is it just id={{Id}} and the context is inferred since it’s in the drawer? Is there some before load action I need on the drawer to make this work? Thanks again for your help! Aparna

Mine was a different use case. I don’t think the query string acknowledges the context. Perhaps you could have a sister model based on the same object that only allows one row. Then you could have a before load action that sets a condition on the sister model to equal the row in context and requery that model. Then you would have a model with only one row which would be the row you want to pass into the query string. Since there is only one row in the model and it will be the first row, there should be no confusion.

Hi Raymond, Thanks for the suggestion! I was able to use your suggestion to get the page include component to render. However, when I do this, I can only open the drawer for one row in the table – once I open one drawer, no other drawers will open. Drawer Configuration: Page Include Component Configuration: Errant Behavior (see how my second drawer is showing the close drawer icon but isn’t actually opening): If I change the page include component to be lazy load, the page includes don’t render at all inside the drawers. I can open as many drawers as I want, but nothing shows up inside of them. Does anyone have thoughts on how to improve this? Is there something I can configure differently? Thanks! Aparna

The only think I can think of is to move the action that sets the model condition and requeries the model out of before load actions on the drawer. Instead, change your row action from drawer to run multiple actions. Then add the setting of the model condition, requery, then drawer opening to the multi-action row button.

Again, thank you so much for the suggestion! I’m not able to close the drawer or reopen the drawer when I do this sadly … Sorry for all of the trouble. Don’t know if you or anyone else has other thoughts about this? Thanks! Aparna

Aparna,

I have used drawers similarly and the way I enabled the creation of new records was to use a button and pop up a field editor.  This way I could set any conditions needed for the related record.  This does not, however, maintain the ‘slick’ drawer interface.

Thanks,

Bill

I’ve done similar things with recipes and recipe steps and ingredients. I suggest to put a global action on your child case that creates a new row on the model as you can modify it straight from that table.
Alternatively create a global action that opens a popup with a clone of the child model. the difference is that the condition is set to filterable off so that when the popup opens, the condition gets activated. 

For this option:
1) Global action actions
     a) Remove all rows from clone model
     b) Save changes in initial model
     c) Activate clone model conditions
     d) Create new row in clone model
     e) Show popup

2) Set up your pop up
   a) In the title section, create 2 buttons (Save and Cancel), both multi-actions
   b) For save, 
         i) Show msg & block UI
        ii) Save changes in clone model (make sure you get error msgs)
        iii) Query initial model
        iv) Close all popups
   c) for cancel,
       i) Cancel clone model
      ii) Close all popups


Hope this helps