Dashboard form with embedded pages

[david.wylie]

Hi.
ok, so your “Main” dashboard page needs a content_panel (let’s name it “cpMain”).
You also need a Module (not a server module) - let’s call it “GlobalModule”. In there declare a variable -

main_form=None

In your Main form, add

import GlobalModule

and also this line -

def __init__(self, **properties):
    # You must call self.init_components() before doing anything else in this function
    self.init_components(**properties)

    # Any code you write here will run when the form opens.
    GlobalModule.main_form=self # <---------Add this line 

Now you have a globally accessible reference to this specific form , and you can manipulate it and any controls inside it from any other form as required. For example, in your navigation form -

import GlobalModule
   ...
GlobalModule.main_form.cpMain.clear()
GlobalModule.main_form.cpMain.add_component(....etc)

Does that help?

EDIT -
What Ian suggested as well in this link -

Parents, and who's got them

Editor’s Note: This thread is now out of date! See the update at the bottom. –Meredydd I am using the dashboard template with a left side column menu. I click on a menu option and I embed (add) a form into a column panel “column_panel_main”. All good. These embedded forms invariably contain the “pseudo-datagrid” made up of a line item form embedded into a container panel for each row, and each of these line item forms handle their own onClick events. When clicked I need to show…

was to define a function in the Global Module to hide the actual implementation of showing the form. Something like this (untested) -

def ShowCustomers():
  main_form.cpMain.clear()
  main_form.cpMain.add_component(<<formname>>)

So from within your Navigation form you could just call -

GlobalModule.ShowCustomers()

That’s the idea, anyway. There’s probably a better way to implement that.