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Hello,
Is there an easy way to determine the origin of a trigger.
For example:
A mashup with 2 buttons triggering the same service.
Kind regards,
Simon
Don't think so, but you may call Add Service twice and add a static parameter to the Add service which tells which origin it's.
The problem with that setup is that you can not bind the output of both services to one numericvalue
Yup you are right
Doing some expressions evaluation and hidden checkboxes you may reach what you want, but won't be easy neither to explain here I'm sorry.
What you are trying to accomplish? maybe another way.
That is what we are doing now
but it gets easily confusing and messy, so I was hoping for an easier solution.
Yes I know I have couple of them...
Button widgets have a ContextId property that you can set to a custom value for each button, i.e. button1 and button2. You can then pass this in to the service and do a check as to which context ID was being passed.
Hi James,
This doesn't helps on what Simon want's to accomplish.
Carles
Ah, you're right -- you can't double bind the parameter with both context ids... in my head I was thinking you could pass it like a message with the clicked event of the button.
This may be a little wonky/messy, but one way you can do it is:
Then continue as I had posted above. This same result might be easier the way you suggested earlier, however.
Edit: Actually, you could simplify this on the mashup end by calling the GetGlobalSessionValues in the main service you want to call, instead of on the mashup. This way you could just bind ServiceInvokeComplete of each of the SetGlobalSession... services to the main service you want to call, and get the current contextId in that service before doing your if or switch statement to see which one is the current clicked property. Note that I wouldn't use the contextId from the session tab in the mashup, because it may not get updated when you call the SetGlobalSession.. services.
This is the right way to do this. Call SetGlobalSessionString Value and use a different value for each button, e.g. "Button1" versus "Button2". Then, trigger the next service using ServiceInvokeCompleted from this session variable one. In the service you call, immediately GetGlobalSessionVariables and determine which button was clicked, and proceed from there.
Simon de Jager I have used this method before successfully to do what you are trying to do. I hope this helps!
I'm not sure if you can actually pass that Context ID from a Widget.
If that is possible, you can use an Expression widget to now make it all a single input.
The context ID on the button widget is bindable in both directions -- but I couldn't think of how to wire it into a single expression, because you could add two parameters but still wouldn't know which one was pressed when the expression is evaluated?
Do an additional output from the expression widget to a textbox that is wired back as an input that is the tester value (you can be a source to many and expression can take in many inputs so this will not be too challenging)
You can create a new service or two new services and add it/them between the click event and the service Add, to log the origin of the trigger (logger.info, etc) :
+1 _ Clicked --> LogButton1 _ Service invoke completed --> Add
+2 _ Clicked --> LogButton2 _ Service invoke completed --> Add