What is the use of URLLoader??

[tkadale]

For what purpose URLLoader module from SideViewUtils is used. Is it useful in passing value from one view to another view when we use redirection??

[sideview · Accepted solution]

Yes. See the examples and documentation in the Sideview Utils app.

In short,

• you put Redirector in places where you would have used ViewRedirector in the old system. Typically you nest it inside a FlashChart module or a SimpleResultsTable module.

• Redirector is configured with params like 'url', 'arg.foo', 'arg.baz'. The values for each can do $foo$ substitution, such that they can be set using any values passed down from upstream modules. For example, if you were setting the user arg to the value from a SimpleResultsTable:

or if you're using the new SimpleResultsTable keys that Sideview Utils provides, you could do this:

<param name="arg.user">$click.fields.username$</param>   

• Redirector then takes the user to ?myURL?user=bob&foo=fooValue

• URLLoader then makes all keys available for downstream modules.

• when the view loads, Pulldown, TextField and Checkbox will preselect themselves to the variable whose name matches the value of their name param. ie ?user=bob becomes a selection of 'bob' in the Pulldown that has

But read the documentation and the examples - this is only a brief summary of the simplest case. -