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The Popup Select Box is an enhancement of the ordinary SelectBox. Instead of selecting from a generic drop-down list, the Popup Select Box allows you to select from a Datalist instead.

The Advanced Grid is only available on Professional and Enterprise Edition.

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If you have thousands of selections to choose from, Popup Select Box is an ideal form element to use as you will be choosing from listing with pagination and search filter, improving loading speed and user experience.


Get Started

The easiest way to see how the Popup Select Box works are to use the existing built-in App Expenses Claims. Here are the steps:

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  1. Start the Joget Server and open the  App Center.

  2. Log in as admin and click on the pencil icon on the  Expenses Claim to open the  Design App. (see Figure 1)

  3. Click on the  Create New Form  button and fill up the Form Details as follows (see Figure 2):
    1. Form ID: popupSelectBox
    2. Form Name:  Popup Select Box
    3. Table Name: j_expense_claim


  4. Drag and drop a  Popup Select Box element on to the canvas.

  5. Hover the mouse over the Popup Select Box element on the canvas and click on Edit to open up the Edit Popup Select Box properties.

  6. ill up the Edit Text Field  properties as follows and click on OK :
      1. ID: appeal_claim
      2. Label: Select Existing Claim
      3. Datalist: Expense All
      4. Display Field: title
  7. Click on the Save button on the Form Builder (see Figure 3). 

  8. Now we will need some data in order to display some values within the Popup SelectBox, head back to Design App and click the Launch button next to the Expenses Claims App.

  9. Click on Create a New Expense Claim button, fill up the necessary details and click on Continue Next Screen button (See Figure 4)

  10. Fill up the necessary details and click on the Complete button.

  11. Head back to the Popup Select Box in the Form Builder.

  12. Click on Preview and click on the Select button to display the popup Datalist. Select one or more records and click on Select Button. The selected record title be displayed (see Figure 5).


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Figure 2


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Figure 3


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Figure 4


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Figure 5

Popup Select Box Properties

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Advanced Options

Data

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Default Value

Default Value when there's no existing value found/selected.

Hash A hash variable is accepted here. For example, you may key the following

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#currentUser.firstName# #currentUser.lastName#

to pre-populate the field with current currently logged in user's name.

You may define multiple default options by separating them using semicolons.

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option1;option2;option3

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ID Field

Target Data List's column ID value to be saved as the option value.

Default: id


Multiple Selection

Toggle Multiple Selection.


URL Request Parameters for Datalist

Refine the target Data List selections by defining the filter criteria here.

NameDescription
ParameterTarget Data List filter parameter name
Field IDCurrent form element field ID
Default ValueDefault Value for the search parameter

Validator

Attach a Validator plugin to validate the input value.

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titleWhen will validation takes place?

Validation will takes take place whenever a form is submitted except when it is submitted as "Save as Draft".


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Readonly

Determines if the element is editable.

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Display field as Label when readonly?

Displays the value of the element as plain text when element is set to "Readonly".

Select Button LabelSelect Button Label
Popup Dialog Height

Height in character

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500px
Popup Dialog Width

Width in character

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90%

Workflow

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Workflow Variable

If the form is part of a workflow process, upon saving of the form (by clicking on "Save as Draft" or "Complete" button). The value in this input field will be saved into the corresponding workflow variable named here.

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titleUsing a non-existent Workflow Variable name

You will get the following warning with the name printed out (e.g. status) in the server log if you attempt to map to a non-existent Workflow Variable.

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context attribute status does not exist in process context - adding new attributes to the process context is not allowed

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