Personas: is it possible to extend the Personas UI controls?

Question

Hi Personas experts,
Personas offers some UI controls, such as Transaction Button, Script Button, Label etc. But they are quite few. Can anyone help the following questions?
1: How to extend Personas to use more UI controls?
Would it be possible to add customised controls such as a dropdown list or combolist, or a clickable image tile in Personas? If so , how?
2. How to use the vaue of a text field in script?
Say, there is a text field which provide the user's input value, eg, 10. And there is an action script button which will lead to other screens based on the value of the text field given by the user. How can we handle such situation so we can go to the right screen? I mean how to use the value of the text field?
Thanks a lot!
Dong

Answer 1

Dropdown lists are there already. Start by creating a text field and then convert it to a dropdown list (or a set of radio buttons) using this button: . A clickable image is also possible. Either add an image object and set its "PushOnClick" property to point to a script button, or add a script button and use the desired image as its icon.
It isn't possible to add new object types yourself. If there's anything you think is missing, mention it here and maybe somebody will be able to suggest a way of achieving what you are looking for.
You can use the value in text fields in IF conditions in a script to do different things depending on the fields value. See, for example, the first video demo in this blog - Putting everything together - the finished Personas project. There I have a Display button that calls one of three transactions depending on the type of cost collector. That's done with a script that looks like this:
Steps 11 and 13 push hidden script buttons that run transactions KS03 and KO03 respectively.
Does that help?
Steve.