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The Element Button
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| Function | Buttons are necessary to leave a form and access the next process step. They are also used to invoke other models. |
| Default | A newly created button does not contain any functionality. Buttons must be configured appropriately. |
Example | The button Close triggers saving of data, the input is also validated and after that the execution is stopped (the open form is closed, the process stops):
The following options were activated for this button:
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Configuration Options
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| Read Only This button can not be clicked. | ||||||||||
| Focus on Element The button can be executed directly in the browser by pressing ENTER. | ||||||||||
 | Highlight as Default The button will be colored to distinguish it from other buttons. This indicates to the user that this button is the default button in the current form. | ||||||||||
 | Go to Next Step A click on a button with this configuration transfers the user to the next process step or the next form (if available). | ||||||||||
 | Go to Previous Step This option allows you to jump back to the previous process step.
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 | Stop Execution Aborts the execution of the entire process.
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| Save Instance Activating this option results in saving all instance data in the database. Only the data from form elements with activated option Save Value in Instance is saved. | ||||||||||
| To Overview Enables a jump to the Process App Overview. This option is a presetting of the standard button Go to Overview which exists in each new form. | ||||||||||
 | Open New Instance Use this option to enable the user to create a new instance. A click on the button will open the corresponding Process App - Create, where you can immediately create a new instance. This option is used in the New Button of each Overview Model to enable users to create new instances directly out of the search. Save the reference model you wish to open in the field Run Model After Click. Whether the new instance is saved or not depends on the user and his decision to click the Save Button in the reference model. | ||||||||||
 | Delete Instance If this option was chosen for a button, then clicking it will result in marking the instance as deleted. The dataset can no longer be retrieved via the search function. It is however still archived and not deleted from the database. | ||||||||||
| Always active Chosing this option will enable the user to click the button even if the rest of the form is write-protected, for example because the user role has read-only authorization. | ||||||||||
| Validate Fields The validation defined in the form element is triggered by the click on this button. It is checked if all defined mandatory fields were completed and if the used Regular Expressions are valid. | ||||||||||
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| Function: After Click Clicking on the gear wheel opens an editor. Code saved in this function will be executed right after clicking the button - even before the start of a possibly added model in field Run Model After Click.
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Containing Content: | Function: After Model Execution A click on the gear wheel opens an editor. The coding saved here is executed last, after execution of a possibly added entry in the field Run Model After Click.
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