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How to open a widget from a controller programmatically ?

MathieuVILLEMONT1 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:09:45 GMT

Opening a widget from a placeholder can be done using PanelManager's showPanel method. However what if the widget is located in a controller ?

So far the only solution I found is to call the controller's method which open a given widget :

var controller = WidgetManager.getInstance().getWidgetsByName('MyThemeController');
controller.openWidget(widgetConfig);

The problem with this solution is that not every theme controller implement such method.

Re: How to open a widget from a controller programmatically ?

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 12:51:26 GMT

Mathieu,

The only thing I can think of is you will have to develop a function that has a switch case based on the theme, if you are looking for a function that can open a widget irrelevant of the theme in use.

Re: How to open a widget from a controller programmatically ?

MathieuVILLEMONT1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:27:53 GMT

Yes so far this seems to be the only solution. The other one being to add a custom method to each theme.