topic WAB Delete Confirmation in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

WAB Delete Confirmation

HamishKingsbury1 — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:12:04 GMT

Hi All

I would like to add a confirmation dialog box to appear when a user clicks either the:

delete button from the feature popup or
delete icon from the editor widget

I've had a look at the JS api hoping their might have been an event but haven't made any progress.

Has anyone implemented a confirmation?

Cheers

Hamish

Re: WAB Delete Confirmation

NNDCDNNDCD — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:38:51 GMT

This should be built in functionality. Why is this not built in and why is it so difficult to implement? I can't find the click event to intercept to add my own confirm dialog. Has anybody been successful in doing this?

Re: WAB Delete Confirmation

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:47:13 GMT

All,

The issue is that there is not just some event that you can listen for in the JS API so it becomes pretty difficult to listen for a feature delete. Adding a event listener to the popup would not be that difficult but the delete button on the edit toolbar in the edit widget is a whole other situation. If you could just hit the delete key on the keyboard (by accident) then I would see the real need for a confirmation dialog but the fact that a user has to click on the delete button should mean that the user does want to delete the feature and a confirmation would just add a additional nuance step (in my opinion).