Lookup Button Modal ¶

Since 2022/03/14

By default, clicking any link in a table view cell opens the detail view of that record.

Even if this is a lookup field referencing a different table, the link opens the detail view of the current table, not the detail view of the lookup table.

Using toLookupButtonModal() (or toLookupButton() ) converts those links into buttons opening the detail view of the referred record in a modal dialog.

Convert into button, opening modal dialog ¶

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// file: hooks/contacts
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
    AppGiniHelper.TV.toLookupButtonModal("partner_id", "partners");
});

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Example ¶

Table: partners ¶

Table: contacts ¶

After modification ¶

The default link to contacts -detail-view has been replaced by a button opening partners -detail-view.