Action Bar (BETA)

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Action Bar (BETA)

Definition and Usage

The Action Bar component is a widget that displays a range of actions available to the user. The actions appear as a row of buttons and in an accompanying list box. The component configuration and the size of the user’s screen determine the number of actions that appear as buttons. Any actions that do not appear as buttons are visible in the list box that is displayed after clicking the ellipses action.

The following is a sample image showing the Action Bar component:

You can configure the Action Bar component in the following ways:

• Define the actions that are included in the Action Bar

• Set the maximum number of actions to show as buttons

• Set visibility options for the actions depending on their availability

• Define the order of the actions

• Define whether inputs are required for an action

• Select the desired style for the Action Bar

• Configure a menu button on the Action Bar

Actions are designed to activate either a service or a popup. The service or the popup mashup must be configured separately in ThingWorx. Any additional features, such as toast messages, must be configured in the appropriate service or mashup in ThingWorx. You can also configure opening a URL from the action bar; for instance, configuring the View in Windchill button.

An Action Bar can be included inside the Item List and Item Identity components. It can also be included inside the preview pane of the View Parts List, View Part Structure, and View Document Structure tasks. The preview pane replaces the selected doc/part pane, present on the top right corner of the given task.

Action Bar, Part Action Bar, and Document Action Bar are the configuration types available for the Action Bar component. The following table lists the actions available for each of these configurations:

Configuration Type	Default Actions
Action Bar	Approve, Reject, Analyze, and Reassign
Part Action Bar	Report a Problem and View in Windchill
Document Action Bar	Open Document, Report a Problem, and View in Windchill

Binding Properties

Input
Property Name	Description	Property Type
Disabled	Disables the widget in the mashup.	Boolean
Input	Used for identifying the data to be fetched from the backend system.	JSON in CCO format
ServiceActionId	When the action is clicked, this string is updated with the action ID of a service action.	String
SubComponentConfiguration	Bind the configuration to this property if it changes in the runtime.	JSON

Output
Property Name	Description	Property Type
EventTriggered	Event that is triggered when a service finishes running or a popup is displayed, if the action is configured with thefireEventOnFinish configuration property as true.	Event
ServiceActionIdChanged	Event that is triggered when the value in ServiceActionId is changed, meaning that a service invoked by the Action Bar has finished running.	Event
PopupClosed	Event that is triggered when a popup that was opened is closed.	Event

Configuration Properties

The following tables show the JSON properties used to configure this component.

For more information on the structure of the configuration, see Component Configuration Structure.

For more information on subproperties, see Sub-Properties and Container Keys.

Property Name	Description			Property Type	Default Value	Required or Optional
maxItemsToShow	The maximum number of action buttons that are shown. If there are more action buttons than the value specified, additional actions will be populated in the list box.			Number	2	Required
modelThingName	The name of a Thing that contains a service with the following signature: public JSONObject GetActions(@ThingworxServiceParameter(name = "ccoJson", baseType = "JSON") JSONObject ccoJson) This service takes input in CCO format containing a single item. It then returns a JSONObject containing an array that maps the ID of an available action to its label as received from the back-end. See example in Sample JSON Configuration below.			Entity Selector	PTC.ActionBar Model.Thing	Required
actions	The list of actions for which data needs to be fetched from the backend system. Container key is actionConfiguration. See sub-properties below:			Attributes Selector	N/A	Required
	overrideLabel	The value set here is shown as the action button’s label, overriding the value that comes from the backend system. To localize, put double brackets around the value.		Textbox	N/A	Optional
	actionButtonVisibility	Determines under what conditions the action buttons are shown, and in what state. Options: AlwaysShown, DisableUnavailable, HideUnavailable. For AlwaysShown, button is always visible and enabled. For DisableUnavailable, button is always visible, but disabled when action is unavailable for given selection. For HideUnavailable, button is only visible when action is available for the given selection. Note: There are other configurations that affect whether a button is enabled or disabled.		Radio Button	N/A	Required
	buttonStyle	Determines the visual style of the button. Options: primary, secondary, tertiary, danger, transparent.		Radio Button	N/A	Required
	overrideSetDisabled	If this field is set, then its value is the only factor in determining if a button should be enabled or disabled. Options: true, false. True ensures that the button is disabled, and false ensures that the button is enabled.		Toggle	N/A	Optional
	fireEventOnFinish	If this field is set to true, when a service finishes running, the event EventTriggered is triggered, and when a popup is closed, the event PopupClosed is triggered.		Toggle	N/A	Optional
	inputConstraints	Determines the input constraint for the action. Options: InputRequired, SingleInputOnly, and NoInputRequired. InputRequired: This action must receive input to operate. If the input is empty and doesn't contain any items, this action's button is disabled. SingleInputOnly: This action must receive a single input in order to operate. If the input is empty or contains more than a single item, this action's button is disabled. NoInputRequired: This action can operate without any input, or with input.		Radio Button	N/A	Optional
	iconWhenEnabled	If this field is specified, the action's button contains an icon to the left of the label when the action button is enabled.		Toggle
	iconWhenEnabled	entityName	The name of the media entity to use as an icon.	Entity Selector
	iconWhenDisabled	If this field is specified, the action's button contains an icon to the left of the label when the action button is disabled.		Toggle
	iconWhenDisabled	entityName	The name of the media entity to use as an icon.	Entity Selector
	activityType	Determines whether the action runs a service or displays a popup mashup. Options: openUrl (available in ThingWorx Navigate 9.3.4 and later versions), popup, service, and parent (available in ThingWorx Navigate 9.4.0 and later versions). See the tables below for the required sub-properties for popup, service, and parent.		Radio Button	N/A	Required
	mashupName	The name of the mashup that appears as a popup. This property is used only when activityType is set to popup.		Mashup Selector	N/A	Required
	redirectAfterPopupSuccess	Redirects to another mashup when the popup is closed after a successful operation. To inform the Action Bar whether the operation performed by the popup was completed successfully, set the session parameter named PTC.ActionBar.popupCloseParameters to indicate success or failure. For example, in the popup mashup there can be an expression that is executed after the operation performed by the popup finishes, and in that expression the session parameter is set. In the following example, the JSON attribute operationSuccessful is set to true since the operation was successful: sessionStorage.setItem("PTC.ActionBar.popupCloseParameters", JSON.stringify( { operationSuccessful: true } )); This property is used only when activityType is set to popup.		Mashup Selector	N/A	Optional
	popupWidth	Specifies the width of the popup that appears. This property is used only when activityType is set to popup.		Number	1024	Optional
	popupHeight	Specifies the width of the popup that appears. This property is used only when activityType is set to popup.		Number	640	Optional
	thingWithService	The name of the Thing that contains the service to run. This property is used only when activityType is set to service.		Entity Selector	N/A	Required
	serviceName	The name of the service to run. This property is used only when activityType is set to service.		Entity Selector	N/A	Required
	parameters	This optional field allows us to pass hard-coded parameters to a service or a popup mashup. The parameters are defined in a JSONObject must be formatted as a string of a JSON object, with escaped-quotations. Parameters should be input into the configuration file in the form "{\"myParamName\": \"hardcodedValue\"}" . See additional information below. This property is used only when activityType is set to service or popup.		Textbox	N/A	Optional
	openUrl	Allows setting a URL on the action button. When set to a valid value, a new window or tab opens with set URL on selecting the action button. This property is used only when activityType is set to openUrl.		Textbox	N/A	Optional
	parentId	This optional field allows setting the ID of the parent action. When set to a valid value, it symbolizes that there is a parent action with that ID and sets the action to be an option under the parent menu button. If there is no action with the same ID that is set in parentId, the action is ignored and is not displayed. This property is used only when activityType is set to parentId.		Textbox	ID of the parent	Optional

Using parameters to Configure a Service Action:

This is the signature of an example service named MyService:

@ThingworxServiceDefinition(name = "MyService", category = "MyCategory")

public void MyService(
@ThingworxServiceParameter(name = "exampleInt", baseType = "INTEGER") Integer exampleInt,
@ThingworxServiceParameter(name = "ExampleString", baseType = "STRING") String exampleString,
@ThingworxServiceParameter(name = "ExampleBoolean", baseType = "BOOLEAN") Boolean exampleBoolean)

This is what the parameter values look like for MyService:

{
\"exampleInt\": 123,
\"exampleString\": \"Hello\",
\"exampleBoolean\": true
}

There are two parameters that your service gets automatically, if you define the service signature to receive them: serviceParam_InputCco and serviceParam_ActionId. The parameter serviceParam_InputCco is a JSONObject, and is the input that was provided to the Action Bar. The parameter serviceParam_ActionId is a string that contains the ID of the action that was clicked. If your service doesn't include these parameters in its signature, you cannot use them. If you would like to use them, define your service signature to use either or both of them, using the following:

@ThingworxServiceDefinition(name = "MyService", category = "MyCategory")

public void MyService(
@ThingworxServiceParameter(name = "serviceParam_InputCco", baseType = "JSON")
JSONObject serviceParam_InputCco,
@ThingworxServiceParameter(name = "serviceParam_ActionId", baseType = "STRING")
String serviceParam_ActionId)

Sample Configuration

• Sample configuration with standard buttons

{
"maxItemsToShow": {
"value": 3
},
"modelThingName": {
"entityName": "PTC.ActionBarModel.Thing"
},
"actions": {
"selectedValues": {
"data": [{
"itemListsData": [{
"items": [{
"id": "Approve",
"additionalData": {
"actionConfiguration": {
"actionButtonVisibility": {
"selectedKey": "HideUnavailable"
},
"buttonStyle": {
"selectedKey": "primary"
},
"activityType": {
"selectedKey": "popup"
},
"mashupName": {
"mashupName": "PTC.AccessApp.WindchillServices.RoutingOptionMashup"
},
"fireEventOnFinish": {
"value": false
},
"inputConstraints": {
"selectedKey": "SingleInputOnly"
}
}
},
"ordinal": 10
}, {
"id": "Reassign",
"additionalData": {
"actionConfiguration": {
"overrideLabel": {
"value": "Reassign"
},
"actionButtonVisibility": {
"selectedKey": "AlwaysShown"
},
"buttonStyle": {
"selectedKey": "primary"
},
"activityType": {
"selectedKey": "popup"
},
"mashupName": {
"mashupName": "PTC.AccessApp.WindchillServices.ReassignActionMashup"
},
"fireEventOnFinish": {
"value": false
},
"inputConstraints": {
"selectedKey": "InputRequired"
}
}
},
"ordinal": 20
}, {
"id": "OpenDocument",
"additionalData": {
"actionConfiguration": {
"openUrl": {
"value": "https://www.ptc.com"
},
"overrideLabel": {
"selectedKey": "[[PTC.AccessApp.OpenDocument]]"
},
"buttonStyle": {
"selectedKey": "primary"
},
"activityType": {
"selectedKey": "openUrl"
},
"actionButtonVisibility": {
"selectedKey": "AlwaysShown"
}
},
"ordinal": 30
}
}, {
"id": "ProblemReport",
"additionalData": {
"actionConfiguration": {
"overrideLabel": {
"value": "[[PTC.Nav.CreateProblemReport.AppTitle]]"
},
"popupHeight": {
"value": 640
},
"popupWidth": {
"value": 800
},
"actionButtonVisibility": {
"selectedKey": "AlwaysShown"
},
"buttonStyle": {
"selectedKey": "primary"
},
"mashupName": {
"mashupName": "PTC.Nav.CreateProblemReportAppMashup"
},
"activityType": {
"selectedKey": "popup"
},
"parameters": {
"value": "{\"affectedItemsCCO\":{\"timeStamp\":\"2021-11-24 22:45:54.528\",\"data\":[{\"itemListsData\":[{\"items\":[{\"id\":{\"value\":\"OR:wt.part.WTPart:100447\"}}],\"objectType\":\"PTC.ProdMgmt.Part\"}],\"adapter\":{\"instanceName\":\"windchill\",\"thingName\":\"PTC.WCAdapter\"}}],\"version\":\"1.0.0\",\"statusMessage\":\"OK\",\"status\":\"200\"},\"isPopup\":true}"
}
}
},
"ordinal": 40
}
],
"objectType": "WT.WorkItem.Actions"
}
],
"adapter": {
"instanceName": "windchill",
"thingName": "PTC.WCAdapter"
}
}
]
}
}
}

• Sample configuration with the menu button

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