To Use a Button in a Dialog Box

In a dialog box, you can create buttons of the following types:
  • A standard button that invokes no method but closes the dialog box and returns a specified predefined value, which can be processed by the method that has opened the dialog box
    Note:
    To arrange buttons in a horizontal row with right alignment in a dialog box, we recommend that you use the PXPanel container with the SkinID property set to Buttons.
  • A button that invokes a method of the graph that provides business logic for the form
To add a standard button to a PXPanel container of a dialog box, perform the following actions:
  1. Add the button to a PXPanel container, as described in To Add Another Supported Control.
  2. In the Control Tree of the Screen Editor, select the node of the new button.
  3. Click the Layout Properties tab item to open the list of properties for the button.
  4. Specify values for the following properties:
    1. DialogResult: Specify the value that is returned when the button closes the dialog box. Set the property to one of the following values defined in the WebDialogResult enumerator.
      Value Description
      OK The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to OK.
      Cancel The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to Cancel.
      Abort The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to Abort.
      Retry The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to Retry.
      Ignore The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to Ignore.
      Yes The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to Yes.
      No The user clicked a button with the DialogResult property set to No.
      When the user clicks the added button, the dialog box is closed, and the specified value is returned to the method that has opened the dialog box.
    2. Text: Specify the text to be displayed on the button.
      Note:
      In the Text property of a standard button, you can define any text, regardless of the value of the DialogResult property.
  5. Click Save to save changes in the customization project.
The following ASPX code snippet creates a panel with two standard buttons arranged a horizontal row with right alignment.
<px:PXPanel ... SkinID="Buttons">
  <px:PXButton ... DialogResult="OK"     Text="Next" />
  <px:PXButton ... DialogResult="Cancel" Text="Return" />
</px:PXPanel>

If you need to include in the same dialog box a button that invokes a method of the graph, you can add the button to the same PXPanel container and set the button properties as described in To Use a Button to Invoke a Method.