Missing info in Form documentation regarding opening links

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

First off, it shouldn’t be necessary to jump through all these hoops to create a clickable link. Using the HTML component and A HREF tag, I can create a link but it won’t let me click it. It should let me click it and open in a new browser window based on my system default automatically.

As for this documentation…

Activities - Opening Hyperlinks Inside Form

It says: Starting from this tutorial, you can also create a table of hyperlinks inside a form, using a Data Grid component. You populate a Data Grid with Button components, and using the SelectedButton output property, you can create conditions under which a certain URL is opened in the browser.

But it doesn’t give us ANY information on how to do that. The button is in an edit grid and I can get the link/file path using row.linkToFile but there is no information on how to incorporate that into the button for each row.

[Jon_Smith]

The new forms are not documented properly either.

My topic here showing how dynamic dropdowns no longer work and aren’t documented is here.

New UiForms Don't Allow Dynamic Dropdowns

Interesting. I did not because how would I then get the value I select in the dropdown back out? If its an In/Out argument would the ienumerable returned only have one value? Edit: Indeed a test shows that it only allows an Input, an In/Out argument breaks the behaviour and only selects the last value in the List and doesn’t pass out the selected value, just the same list. You also cannot make two keys, one with a List input and the other with a string output as the keys must be unique. I n…

[Antonia_Petrescu8 (Antonia Petrescu)]

Hey @postwick ! Are you using versions prior to 23.4? Wanted to know if you’re using the previous or the updated form designer. When we first created the tutorial, we thought that documenting more advanced scenarios wasn’t necessary, but now it’s clear that it is.

@Jon_Smith Some configurations that were possible in the previous form designer aren’t entirely possible in the post 23.4 form designer, that’s why, for example, we haven’t added a dynamic dropdowns tutorial for the new form experience.

Thank you for the feedback! These will be logged, discussed and planned accordingly!

[Jon_Smith]

@Antonia_Petrescu8

Some configurations that were possible in the previous form designer aren’t entirely possible in the post 23.4 form designer, that’s why, for example, we haven’t added a dynamic dropdowns tutorial for the new form experience.

Are you saying its not possible to do it at all though? Or you just haven’t written a new tutorial yet?
If its not possible at all then thats quite an annoying limitation that can really reduce the usefulness of the dropdowns?

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

I use the previous version because it’s more functional and has fewer problems. For example, in the new version the datatable variable doesn’t update properly to reflect the data entered into the edit grid.