Custom Livetable _action

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#1

In a nutshell, what I would like to do is add a custom _action to a Livetable. Instead of the standard ‘edit’, ‘delete’ I would like to add a ‘Select’ that will then provide a custom redirect by adding different page parameters. I have successfully added the _action but it takes me to an undefined page. I have found in the Livetable Results Macros code where the link is added but I am not sure on how to go about creating the new link. We are using XWiki Enterprise 7.4.4.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

–Steve

#2

I’m not sure I understand the problem. If you do something similar to what is done for edit/copy/delete/rename actions it doesn’t work? See https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/blob/master/xwiki-platform-core/xwiki-platform-livetable/xwiki-platform-livetable-ui/src/main/resources/XWiki/LiveTableResultsMacros.xml#L300

#3

Ok, here are some code snippets to better explain. Taking code from a default AWM created page, I first set the column properties as such:

#set ($columnsProperties = {
‘doc.title’: {“type”:“text”,“size”:20},
‘doc.author’: {“type”:“text”,“size”:10,“link”:“author”},
‘doc.date’: {“type”:“text”,“size”:10},
‘_actions’: {“sortable”:false,“filterable”:false,“html”:true,“actions”:[“edit”,“delete”, “select”]}
})

I then set what columns are to be displayed and build table:

#set ($columns = [‘doc.title’, ‘_actions’])
#livetable(‘setupsheets’ $columns $columnsProperties $options)

This displays everything correctly with the exception that the link assigned to the action “select” results in an undefined page.

What I am not sure of is what to edit to create the redirect for custom actions.

Based on your response I am thinking that I need to add a line something to the effect of:

#set($discard = $row.put(‘doc_select_url’, $itemDoc.getURL(‘view’, ‘xpage=PARAMETERS_TO_PASS’)))

Is this correct?

–Steve

#4

Yes, and for this you’ll have to use a custom live table results page. Here’s an example of how you can reuse the code of the default results page and just modify its output to meet your need http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Livetable+Macro#HModifythedefaultJSON .

#5

It appears that I am still not quite there. If I understand the flow correctly, on the page that I would like the livetable to appear, I have set the options adding to it the option ‘resultPage’ : ‘Setup.SetupSheets.SS_JSON’ . This is the page that would be called to replace the default livetable results page which is Xwiki.LivetableResults. Just to make sure I have everything correct, I copied all the code in the default results page Xwiki.LivetableResults and pasted it into my new, redirected results page Setup.SetupSheets.SS_JSON. I do not see any results and no error is thrown.

If I change resultPage to ‘url’: $xwiki.getURL(‘Setup.SetupSheets.SS_JSON’), I get error 404 with the link listed as https://xwiki/bin/view/Setup/SetupSheets/SS_JSON&offset=1&limit=15&reqNo=1&sort=doc.title&dir=asc

I’m sure there is something small I am missing but just can’t seem to find it.

Thanks,
–Steve

#6

Try with ‘resultPage’: ‘Setup.SetupSheets.SS_JSON.WebHome’, you probably create SS_JSON as a nested page not a terminal page…

#7

I’m following up on this existing thread to ask the following complementary question: once the custom action has been correctfully added, what’s the way to get it translated? I’m struggling to find the entry point…

#8

ok, found it by looking in greater details to the livetable macro definition in “macros.vm”. The translation key to use is “platform.livetable._actions.[myaction]”.