Access Toggle Button State in Workflow

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Jake Brown

November 09, 2021 17:35

I think it would be useful if the workflows had access (get/set) to GXW application elements and their states. A use case I had in mind would be for a toggling whether the user wanted a layer to refresh automatically. If the user could set a toggle button to on or off - I could use a workflow the drive behavior based on that choice.

We have dedicated similar behavior with the layer list - where I can check if the layer is visible or set it to be visible

You could also write these "user preferences" back to a portal json object for user settings so the app would remember.

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  Permanently deleted user

  November 10, 2021 14:16

  This is a really good idea! Upvoted.

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  Jake Brown

  November 16, 2021 16:48

  I found an activity that will certainly take me most of the way. getter and setter for application data that persists across workflows. what a gem of a capability.

  
  

  https://docs.geocortex.com/workflow/latest/help/Default.htm#wf5/help/activities/get-application-data.htm

  
  

  https://docs.geocortex.com/workflow/latest/help/Default.htm#wf5/help/activities/set-application-data.htm

  
  

  
  

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  Zack Robison

  March 22, 2023 18:56

  Jake Brown, sorry I missed this for so long (if I understand you correctly).  I've been binding to VSW elements like so:

  1. Run Operation "viewer.get-current-layout"
  2. Bind to the element with the layout's .selectById() function, I often do this by putting the element into a Create Value activity with an input such as "=$getLayout.result.selectById('results-list-guid1234')"

  Now you have the element in your workflow and you can look at all its properties (and modify them).

  To be clear, this is for VertiGIS Studio, not GeoCortex Essentials.

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