Calling Feedback Message From Javascript

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Gino Quetua

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JavaScript

Feedback

OutSystems Widgets

Hi,

How do I call Feedback Message from my script? I would like to use a feedback message in Outsystems instead of an alert box to be consistent and to have Outsystems uniformity.

ie:

Instead of doing:

alert("Hello World");

I would do it something like this instead:

osjs.feedbackMessage("Hello World");

Thanks,
Gino

31 Jul 2014

João Rosado

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Solution

Hi Gino,

Just published a component to do that, using the approach mentioned by Bruno.
Here is the link https://www.outsystems.com/forge/component/590/feedbackjs/

It uses the FakeNotifyWidget, it it does one extra server round-trip for that.

To Bruno, well It's safer than just using it directly a Notify to the Feedback block. If in the future the OsNotify is broken at least the FakeNotifyWidget will have to include an upgrade or compatibility path to keep things working.

Regards,
João Rosado

See solution in context

11 Aug 2014

Hélio Dolores

Staff

Hi Gino,

I think there's no official supported way of using the OsNotifyWidget by javascript (to send a feedback message), meaning that we can at anytime change its usage and behavior and consequently break your application.

regards,
HD

11 Aug 2014

Bruno Lourenço

Hi!

I think you can use the fake notify widget from RichWidgets to send your message throught the notify (see the widget description to learn how to use), and on the FakeOnNotify screen action, get your message with the NotifyWidgetGetMessage and display the feedback.

@Hélio:

If there's no official supported way of using the OsNotifyWidget by javascript, is it safe to use the fake notify widget?

11 Aug 2014

João Rosado

Staff

Solution

11 Aug 2014

Hélio Dolores

Staff

Hi Bruno,

Yes it is safe to send a message through the OsNotifyWidget by javascript. This might be the best solution for this issue, because you are calling an action on the module.

@Gino take a look on João Rosado component :) it has all you need

I've changed the previous message to enforce that it is not supported to send a feedback message directly (which is the issue here) without calling an action on the server. But it is possible... but it isn't a very pretty solution. I do not recomend it.

You would have to pass the feedback widget id and the message Type Id concatenated in the message...

11 Aug 2014

Hélio Dolores

Staff

.. and btw thanks João. :)

11 Aug 2014

Gino Quetua

Thanks guys appreciate it :)

12 Aug 2014

João Rosado

Staff

Hi Gino,

Someone just noticed that my component had the wrong eSpace uploaded.
Just fixed it, so if you downloaded already please download the new version.

Regards,
João Rosado

13 Aug 2014

edTheEngineer

Hi,

I'm still a little stuck.

I have a Fake Notify Widget called FakeNotifyRefresh

This goes to the OnNotifyAction where it adds a random number to a list and calls a statistic web service (which works when I click a button going to this action).

However, I'm not sure where I place these JavaScript functions.

"setInterval(function(){ refreshNotifications() }, 1000);

function refreshNotifications() {

OsNotifyWidget('" + FakeNotifyRefresh.Id + "','')

Do they go in the javascript of the page?

Or does it goes in the preparation so this is run every second when the page first loads?

Edward

06 Jul 2017

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