Override Action

The following describes the metadata properties to override control and action's properties that accept actions e.g. OnLoaded, OnResume, OnPress, OnSuccess, OnFailure ,'OnPulledDown' and etc. Multi-level overriding is also supported.

Override Action Properties

Property	Type	Required
Name	string	Required
Properties	object	Required

---

Name

Action that will be overridden.

• type: string

---

Properties

Properties and their values that will be overridden. All properties and events can be overridden except _Type.

• type: object

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Examples

OnLoaded Event

{
  "Caption": "Main Page",
  "OnLoaded": {
    "Name": "/MyApp/Actions/Toast/ToastMessage.action",
    "Properties": {
      "Message": "My Message"
    }
  },
  "_Type": "Page",
  "_Name": "MainPage"
}

OnSuccess Event (Nested Actions)

{
  "_Type": "Action.Type.ODataService.CreateEntity",
  "Target": {
    "EntitySet": "MyWorkOrderHeaders",
    "Service": "/MyApp/Services/MyOData.service"
  },
  "Properties": {
    "OrderDescription": "new installation",
  },
  "OnSuccess": {
    "Name": "/MyApp/Actions/Message.action",
    "Properties": {
      "Message": "My Message",
      "Title": "My Title",
      "OnSuccess": {
        "Name": "/MyApp/Actions/GoToPage.action",
        "Properties": {
          "PageToOpen": "/MyApp/Pages/MySecondPage.page"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

ExecuteAction API

export default function OverrideActionProperties(context) {
  const pageProxy = context.getPageProxy();

  pageProxy.setActionBinding({
    'message': "Hello"
  });

  return pageProxy.executeAction({
    "Name": "/MyApp/Actions/Message.action",
    "Properties": {
      "Message": "My Message is {message}",
      "Title": "My Title"
    }
  });
}

ExecuteAction API (Override Object Properties)

export default function OverrideActionProperties(context) {
  let readLink = "MyWorkOrderHeaders('4000019')";
  let description = "Override Description";

  return context.executeAction({
    "Name": "/MyApp/Actions/UpdateEntity.action",
    "Properties": {
      "Target": {
        "ReadLink": readLink
      },  
      "Properties": {
        "OrderDescription": description
      },
    }
  });
}