Choose dialog - 5 UI
Deprecated
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Choose dialog has been deprecated since Magnolia 6.0. It is part of the Magnolia 5 UI framework. For the updated implementation, see Chooser dialog for _Magnolia 6 UI instead. |
A choose dialog allows you to select an item from an app, typically from a content app. Below is a choose dialog for choosing a page. The dialog displays the workbench from the Pages app. You typically open a choose dialog by clicking a link field in some other dialog. Configure the choose dialog under the app that manages the items.
Choosing items from content apps
A content app already has a suitable view for choosing items: the
workbench of the first subapp. You don’t need to configure a choose
dialog explicitly. AppContext creates ChooseDialogDefinition programmatically.
WorkbenchFieldDefinition and ContentConnectorDefinition
are instantiated in the ContentApp#openChooseDialog method. Values for
the definition classes are cloned from the first subapp of the app.
Configuring a choose dialog
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You don’t need to configure a choose dialog when choosing items from a content app. The workbench of the first subapp works as an item chooser automatically. |
You can configure a choose dialog explicitly if required. Create a
chooseDialog node under the app configuration.
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optional Choose dialog node. |
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required Content connector node. |
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required Content
connector definition class implementing
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required Field node. |
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required A field used to choose the item, typically a
workbench.
The value must be a subclass of
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required A choose dialog definition class implementing
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ChooseDialogDefinition extends DialogDefinition. This means
you can also configure actions (Select and Cancel by default) and an
actionArea (optional).
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Configuring a workbench
If you want to configure a custom workbench, use
info.magnolia.ui.contentapp.field.WorkbenchFieldDefinition as field.
| Property | Description |
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optional Choose dialog node. |
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required Field node. |
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optional Extend an existing workbench definition or use any properties from the workbench definition. |
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optional Path to extended definition. |
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optional |