topic Re: Open widget from scalebar widget in Web AppBuilder Custom Widgets Questions

Open widget from scalebar widget

JamesCrandall — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:57:43 GMT

Theme: Launchpad

WabDev 2.7

I'm trying to implement what is found in THIS thread. I need to open a widget from the ScaleBar widget when the app loads. However, the var abc is getting set to undefined and not sure why.

var widgetsConfig = this.appConfig.widgetPool.widgets;
            var widgetId;
            for (var i in widgetsConfig) {
                if (widgetsConfig[i].name == "My Widget Name") {
                    widgetId = widgetsConfig[i].id;
                    break;
                }
            }
            var abc = WidgetManager.getInstance().getWidgetsByName("AnchorBarController")[0]; //abc is getting set to undefined
            debugger;
            abc.setOpenedIds([widgetId]);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Open widget from scalebar widget

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 09:57:46 GMT

James the issue is a timing issue. The Scalebar widget is initiated before the Anchorbar Controller is created. You can use a setTimeout or move the code from the Scalebar widget to somewhere else where you are sure the Anchorbar Controller is already created. I just used a timeout and it worked fine:

        var widgetsConfig = this.appConfig.widgetPool.widgets;
        var widgetId;
        for(var i in widgetsConfig) {
          if(widgetsConfig[i].name == "InfoSummary") {
            widgetId = widgetsConfig[i].id;
            break;
          }
        }
        setTimeout(function(){
          var abc = WidgetManager.getInstance().getWidgetsByName("AnchorBarController")[0]; //abc is getting set to undefined
          debugger;
          abc.setOpenedIds([widgetId]);
        }, 1000);‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Open widget from scalebar widget

JamesCrandall — Fri, 11 May 2018 17:05:11 GMT

Yes! Much appreciated.