How to Use Ajax Update Area with Links

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postedon September 24, 2013at 4:00 PM

Please see the image above which displays my question for this thread. Thanks for your help!

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repliedon September 25, 2013at 10:05 AM

Hi Antonio,
you can define a String $selectedCompany variable in your screen and whenever you click on a company in the list execute a "Script Action" which stores the corresponding company name in that vairable. The action can be attached to the link, the image or you can put a div component around the flow layout to have an action on both. The in the second half of the screen you can load the content based on the $selectedCompany variable value.
If you want to have this update working without reloading the whole page, you can append your Ajax Update Action after the Script Action on the aforementioned components: if you do so the Script Action will still be executed, but only a portion of the page (the one included in the Ajax Update Area) will be returned back to the browser (even if the whole page will be processes and rendered at the server side).

Keep in mind that the $selectedCompany variable you define can be a Local variable in the screen only if the screen is not used as a screen include into another screen (so if it is used directly as an Activity in the process), or if the Remember Variables options of the screen BO is flagged. If that is not the case you will need to define the variable as Inherited and define it locally in the parent screen.

Please let me know if this solves your issue.

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