passing parametters to dialog

[tiennd]

Hi,
I want to chain two different dialogs. After finishing the first dialog, I want to pass a parameter to the next dialog.
I have looked at the Dialog framework and found that the DialogManager only inits parameter passed by actions. If parameter is a Node, I can use the browseBean, but how about the parameter is just a String or whatever value?

Thank you,

[gavinc]

Yes, you're right, you need to use an action to pass parameters to a dialog, the framework doesn't support directly passing parameters from one dialog to another at the moment. And yes, the parameters have to be strings.

You can immediately launch another dialog though using the outcome override approach. For example to close the dialog and launch another one called newDialog use the following outcome in your first dialog:

dialog:close:dialog:newDialog‍

Or you can just launch another dialog from within the first one, it depends on the flow you want. In either case you'll probably need to use the HTTP session object to pass the parameters. Just put the Node object in the session during the first dialog and retrieve it in the second dialog.

Hope this helps.

[tiennd]

Thank you Gavin, it's so nice to be able to do this: dialog:close:dialog:newDialog

[whippet]

Hi,
Would this also work for

dialog:close:dialog:close ‍

? It appears this always take me back to the browse page and not back in sequentially order.

Maybe I am doing something wrong ?

[gavinc]

That is not a case that is specifically handled, however, looking at the code I'm not sure why it's not working.

The best thing to do is to raise an issue for this in JIRA.