HTML Client: How to display the edit screen of an item given its ID?

Question

To edit a selected item, I could easily add a new button on the command line and choose the existing method, "editSelected"
But how to edit another item instead of the selected item? Like How to edit an item whose ID # is 10? i.e How to display the edit screen for an item with ID # 10?

Answer 1

The methods such as 'editSelected' apply to screen property collections. Picking these pre-selected options automatically configure the parameter as '<my-collection>.selectedItem'.
If you want an action not directly related to the screen properties then you can choose one of the screen commands under the 'Navigation' list starting with 'show', as in 'show<my-screen-name'. If the screen command accepts parameters then you can
configure the parameter passing manually. In your example, if you added a local 'int' data property to the screen you could assign the ID to that and bind the parameter passed to the screen to that.
In the instances when not even that is sufficient, well then you write your own custom method.
Dave
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