Conditional section buttons

[Theo Kusters]

Hi,

Is there a way to make section buttons conditional like row buttons?
I know that I can make them 'disabled' but there is there a way to make them enabled by an event in that section?

Kind regards, Theo

[sean.lanktree]

Hi Theo -

In your case, what type of event would take place in order to hide/show the section button?

thanks

[Theo Kusters]

Hi,
I have a 2 buttons: create and display pdf report. It's a large and complex report so I do not want to recreate the report every time the user displays it. But as long as the report doesn't exist the display report button must be disabled.
Kind regards, Theo

[sean.lanktree]

Hi Theo - the following steps should accomplish what you want:

• Click the Security button (it is on the same row as the Behaviors button)
• Locate your display pdf button in the list shown and give it a "feature name". Let's suppose that you call it "displayPDF"
• We want to disable the "displayPDF" feature by default when the application opens. You can do this by either specifying a "startup" (EXNABSTART) and calling disableFeature('displayPDF') or changing the URL of the app in Portal Admin to contain "df=displayPDF".
• Next, we need to enable the displayPDF feature when the PDF report is created. I assume that your Create PDF button already calls an RPG program based off of EXNABBTN. If so, does that call return a file or a JSON response (via calls to SetResponse)? If it does not return a file then we can enable the feature by calling SetReponse('enableFeature':'displayPDF'). If you are returning a file let us know and we will provide instructions on how to handle that.

[Theo Kusters]

Hi Sean,

Thanks, that will do.
enableFeature('displayPDF') was what I was looking for.
SetReponse('enableFeature':'displayPDF') works for me.

Thanks, Theo