Passing Values to Contained Mashups that Dynamically change

I imagine a lot of people that face this problem might be using Session Parameters, but there is a secret lost Ninja art that allows you to do it with Mashup parameters which is much more contextual and direct.

The key is to have Mashup parameters with the same name.

End Result

Starting out I am on my main mashup, you can see the Tree Data in the Grid below

Clicking on the next node now shows the new mashup and the TO field inside. That To value was passed in using a mashup parameter

Clicking the next node, you can see it is actually a different mashup, but I am still passing the TO value

How is it done:

Here is my mashup with the Tree and Contained mashup, you can see the bindings are in place already, but how did I do it, since the Contained Mashup is empty?

First create the new mashups with a mashup parameter named the SAME in this case EntityName

Here is Mashup2 and you can see the Mashup parameter with the same name EntityName bound to one of the Value Displays

Now how do I bind from my main mashup?

What you need to do is to temporarily assign one of the Mashups to the Contained Mashup, here I am showing Mashup1 assigned. This will now allow you to bind not just the Mashup Name, but also bind a value to the Mashup Parameter in that Mashup. Just drag your selected row values onto the contained mashup.

Here you can see the parameter showing as a property, I just dropped my value on the contained mashup and I can bind to Name (name of the mashup to show) and EntityName (the value I want to pass to the mashup parameter)

Now just remove the assigned mashup from the Contained mashup and you’ll note that the bindings stay intact.

That’s it!