VL Web Material Design

[soa]

I have V14SP2 Page containing a ViewContainer containing currently two views

CourseView & CentreView

When the user selects a course (by touching) on the Courseview I want to switch to the CentreView to list Centres for that course. I know I could add a function in a global scoped RP that the webpage listened to to tell it to switch to the Centreview but I was wondering if there is some new facility in this new world that lets a view communicate back with its viewcontainer in a more direct way.

Cheers
Jim

[dannyoorburg]

Hi,

No, nothing new. The paradigm is still the same.


I usually just signal events from Views, in your case something like

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Signal Event(CourseSelected) CourseId( ... )

Since the main Web Page has a reference to all the Views, it is the perfect place to handle View-Events and decide on navigation.

It also keeps the View itself loosely coupled, you could potentially drag it into another application and it could be re-used.


But you might want to ask yourself if you're not better of presenting the "Centres for that course"-data in a (possibly full-screen) Dialog. If the user is zooming in on a bit of information that's generally the better choice.

The user can then simply dismiss the dialog and they're back where they left from...

That code can be as simple as...

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Evtroutine Handling(#CourseList.ItemClick)

Define_Com Class(#CourseCentresDialog) Name(#Dialog)

#Dialog.ShowCourse CourseId(...)

Endroutine

Hope this helps ,

Danny

[soa]

Thanks Danny. There's a lot to learn but its so much easier and it looks fantastic. We are really going to delight our users!