The enhancement to the action button will allow the book author to set custom success and fail message as part of the action button configuration. Longer term, I would love to see new variables added to Turbo Integrator that could be used to set a return message. For example:
IF ( x = 1);
ReturnMessage = 'Friendly message for users';
ProcessError;
ENDIF;
When the process is run from the PAW action button, if X = 1, then the user would see the TI process failed with the friendly message. The value of the ReturnMessage could be set and modified during the execution of the TI process.
Request #2 seems a bit more complicated, but possible. We already allow the book author to pick and choose which parameters the user is prompted for. I think you are asking to do this a bit more dynamically.
I also want to be able to pass subset names and cell values (thinking about the single cell widget) to the TI process as parameter values when the action button is clicked. Lots of other small enhancements are planned for the action button (sandbox context support, new navigation options, improved scope for navigation context, etc).
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Stuart King
IBM Planning Analytics Offering Manager
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue May 02, 2023 09:54 AM
From: Mark Wragg
Subject: PAW Action Button/TI Process Enhancements
Hi,
On the April AMA it was mentioned that the Action buttons are going to be advanced somewhat, which sounds great. I have a couple of things I would like to see as part of that development, or at least considered for future development:
1) Allow non admin users to see dynamic messages when running processes in PAW, as outlined previously here:
ItemReject not returning message in PAW for non Admin users | Planning Analytics with Watson
I do think this needs to be prioritised.
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2) Would it be possible for a TI process parameter to return selections based on the value of another parameter.
For example, if a user selects a particular version from the version parameter, then the year parameter lists only those years that the selected version spans or if a user selects a particular Action from an Action parameter, such as Clear Data Only, then other parameters that are irrelevant if data is only being cleared are hidden, alternatively if data is being copied, then other parameters suddenly become visible. I guess the general concept would be along the lines of cascading prompts in Cognos Analytics.
We do have workarounds in place for things like this, but I believe adding in the above functionality would add to the user experience and provide developers with increased flexibility.
regards,
Mark
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Mark Wragg
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