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Dialog boxes
The Episerver user interface uses dialog boxes in many places to communicate information or perform tasks within the current view.
All the following examples can be seen on our Episerver's GitHub. Just clone our repository, checkout doc/how-to-use-dialogs branch and run the site to see working examples.
In this topic
- Alert dialog box
- Confirmation dialog box
- Standard dialog box
- Callbacks
- Action labels
- Changing available actions (Legacy)
- Changing the state of actions
Alert dialog box
The Alert dialog box displays information that a user acknowledges but is not required to perform any action.
require(["epi/shell/DialogService"], function (dialogService) {
dialogService.alert({
heading: "heading",
content: "content",
description: "description",
iconClass: "epi-iconDownload"
});
}); 
Confirmation dialog box
The Confirmation dialog displays information for which a user must make a decision. It returns a promise that will be either resolved after clicking OK or rejected after clicking Cancel.
require(["epi/shell/DialogService"], function (dialogService) {
dialogService.confirmation({
title: "confirmation title",
heading: "heading",
content: "content",
description: "description",
iconClass: "epi-iconDownload"
}).then(function () {
alert("clicked OK");
}).otherwise(function () {
alert("clicked cancel");
});
});
Standard dialog box
The standard Dialog displays custom content. You should create a widget that displays and manages the business logic of the component and use the standard dialog as a display container.
You can either create a Dialog widget instance manually:
require([
"epi/shell/widget/dialog/Dialog",
"dijit/form/TextBox"
], function (Confirmation, TextBox) {
var dialog = new Dialog({
heading: "heading",
content: new TextBox({label: "Text 1", _type: "field"}),
description: "description",
iconClass: "epi-iconDownload"
});
dialog.on("execute", function () {
// run custom needed logic
dialog.hide();
});
dialog.show();
}
);Or use another dialogService method:
require([
"epi/shell/widget/dialog/Dialog",
"dijit/form/TextBox"
], function (Confirmation, TextBox) {
dialogService.dialog({
title: "dialog title",
heading: "heading",
content: new TextBox({label: "Text 1", _type: "field"}),
description: "description",
iconClass: "epi-iconDownload"
}).then(function () {
alert("clicked OK");
}).otherwise(function () {
alert("clicked cancel");
});
}
);Callbacks
Episerver dialog boxes are based on Dojo Dialog. You can read the Dojo dialog box documentation for further information about events or other properties that can be passed as dialog parameters.
Action labels
Each dialog box has properties that define the labels to be displayed. You can customize the default labels for actions when you construct the dialog box using acknowledgeActionText for the alert dialog box and confirmActionText and cancelActionText for the confirmation and standard dialogs. There are common action labels localized in epi.resources.action.
Changing available actions (Legacy)
Note: While existing solutions will continue to work, you should not build new solutions on this API. It will be phased out in the future.
When you use the standard dialog, there are times when the displayed widget needs to add actions to the action pane; a provider and consumer pattern is implemented to facilitate this in a decoupled fashion. The standard dialog is an epi.shell.widget._ActionConsumer and your widget inside the dialog implements the epi.shell.widget._ActionProviderWidget and supply its actions using the addActions method.
require(
["dojo/_base/declare",
"dijit/layout/_LayoutWidget",
"epi/shell/widget/dialog/Dialog",
"epi/shell/widget/_ActionProviderWidget"],
function (declare, _LayoutWidget, Dialog, _ActionProviderWidget)
{
var MyActionProviderWidget = declare([_LayoutWidget, _ActionProviderWidget],
{
startup : function ()
{
this.inherited(arguments);
this.addActions(
{
name : "hello",
label : "Say hello",
iconClass : "buttonClass",
action : hitch(this, function ()
{
this._sayHello();
})
});
},
_sayHello : function ()
{
console.log("Hello!");
}
});
var providerWidget = new MyActionProviderWidget();
var dialog = new Dialog({ content: providerWidget });
dialog.show();
}
);You can register a provider with a consumer manually, by supplying it to the constructor arguments of the consumer.
require(
["dojo/_base/declare",
"dojo/_base/lang",
"epi/shell/widget/dialog/Dialog",
"epi/shell/widget/_ActionProvider"],
function (Dialog, _ActionProvider)
{
var MyActionProvider = declare(
[_ActionProvider],
{
getActions: function ()
{
return [
{
name : "hello",
label : "Say hello",
iconClass : "buttonClass",
action : lang.hitch(this, function ()
{
this._sayHello();
})
}];
},
_sayHello: function ()
{
console.log("Hello!");
}
});
var provider = new MyActionProvider();
var dialog = new Dialog(
{
content : "Some dialog content.",
actionProviders : [provider]
});
// Act
dialog.show();
}
);If you do not have any use for the default dialog buttons, you can remove them by setting defaultActionsVisible to false when constructing the dialog box.
Changing the state of actions
To change the state of an action during the lifetime of a dialog box, such as enabling or disabling an action, call _ActionProvider.setActionProperty().
<script type="text/javascript">
require(
["dojo/_base/declare",
"dojo/_base/lang",
"dijit/_Widget",
"epi/shell/widget/dialog/Dialog",
"epi/shell/widget/_ActionProviderWidget"],
function (declare, lang, _Widget, Dialog, _ActionProviderWidget)
{
// Implement a widget inheriting the action provider widget
var MyActionProvider = declare([_Widget, _ActionProviderWidget],
{
startup: function ()
{
this.inherited(arguments);
// Add an action to the dialog toolbar
this.addActions(
{
name : "disableme",
label : "Click to disable",
action : lang.hitch(this, function ()
{
// When the action is executed we disable this action
this.setActionProperty("disableme", "disabled", true);
})
});
}
});
var dialog = new Dialog(
{
content : new MyActionProvider()
});
dialog.show();
});
</script>Last updated: Nov 20, 2019
