Assign Button

Stores the result of an expression.

Demo

Basic example

{ "rows": [ { "cols": [ { "type": "scriptButton", "value": "{{myVar}}", "extraSettings": { "text": "set myVar=Done", "script": "Done" } } ] }, { "cols": [ { "type": "text", "value": "{{myVar}}", "label": "myVar" } ] } ] }

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
type	string	Type expected is scriptButton

See section Common attributes.

Extra attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
autoExecute	boolean	If true, the script will execute automatically when the form is displayed
timer	number	Number of ms to wait before automatically calling again
text	string	Text shown inside the button
script	string	Expression whose result will be assigned.

Events

Event	When	Additional	Cancellable
Button.click	Any button is clicked	Definition + State	Yes

See section Events for more information.

When to use it

• When you want to set a variable when the user clicks a button.
• When you want to set a variable when a panel is rendered, for example inside a wizard. To do that you can place the button inside a panel and set its visibility to false and autoExecute to true.
• To have a "calculated variable" setting autoExecute and timer.