Process design question

ask180

The scenario is as follows.

A user executes a query, a list of results is displayed, with each listed item having [Edit] and [View] options. Only rows with BO.Deleted <> "Yes" are listed.
The user chooses the [Edit] option for a listed item, and its details display on the Main form of the business object.
From here, they want a (logical) [Delete] option, but from the user's perspective, i want it to seem like a physical delete. They need to see all the data before deciding whether to delete, hence I don't want the [Delete] as an option on the query results list.
The delete is implemented as a process, which resets BO.Deleted to "Yes".

Problem. After my delete process executes, I still remain on the Main form. This is confusing for the user, because the think they have deleted the data, and yet there it is on the form.

I have reviewed similar past posts, which indicate that there is no way to return to the query result list, rather than the Main form, after the process has run.

Just thought I'd see if someone had come up with a workaround, or v7 has a setting somewhere to control this navigation.

mrbdrm

workaround:
add form section that will only show when Delete=Yes, that only have one HTML attribute with a message like this:

<div class="k-block k-info-colored"> The Record Is Successfully Deleted <br>
You Can Close This Form. </div>

tford

In the process that runs when the delete button is clicked you could add a DISPLAY PERSPECTIVE which would re-display the query.

pureist

"2. The user chooses the [Edit] option for a listed item, and its details display on the Main form of the business object."
what does the form open in? ..a new tab? modeless? popup? same panel?

ask180

Hi Pureist, I am opening in a new tab.

I will try the workarounds. Thanks for the suggestions.

pureist

i think mrbdrm's solution is the most elegant/professional/informative:
"add form section that will only show when Delete=Yes, that only have one HTML attribute with a message like this:"
especially if the message text in the block is bold red.
Though it is a shame form operations buttons do not have an additional setting, "close form after operation completes" like the Save Form operation button does.
->That being said, you could use another Save form operation button, give it a different text label, and enable and specify a process to be executed after save (which changes the deleted flag), and enable the 'Close form After Save' setting.
->Or, you could just have the status field shown prominently on the form from the beginning (would say 'ACTIVE' (in bold green) to start with) [read-only] and it will change to 'DELETED' (in bold red) automatically when the underlying database field value is changed by the process (but might need form to be programmatically refreshed). To avoid a form refresh (if it's necessary is this scenario) the process could change it to 'DELETED'.