How to Manage Web Actions
Web Actions List
To access the web actions registry, you need to click on the three-dots icon present in the toolbar under the settings section, as shown in the figure.
The page displays the actions currently defined in Blindata, with the possibility of adding new ones through the blue FAB placed in the bottom right corner.
How to Define a Web Action
To define a new web action, you need to click on the FAB within the master data page to open the insertion form.
User can define:
- Agent: The agent on which to define the configurations of the action.
- Name: Action name. It is mandatory.
- Description: Optional description.
- Required Permissions: The permissions required for the end user to be able to see the action.
- Target Pages: The pages on which the action must be made available.
- Required Team: The team to which the action is associated, in this case only those who have a policy defined on the team in question will be able to see the action.
- Rendering Rule: Custom rule defined by the user that is valid for the examined resource. The rule is defined in JSON format.
Web Action in Detail
Once the web action is created, it is possible to access the related detail page:
The page displays the name, immediately below which the data related to the profiling of the action are displayed. In particular, the following are shown:
- Creator’s username and creation date
- Update date and last editor’s username
Below the header section, if present, the description of the action is displayed.
In detail there is:
- Agent: On which agent the action is defined.
- Pages Applicability: The pages on which the action is valid, in the example’s case, the action will be available on the detail pages of Data Actors.
- Required Permissions: The list of permissions required to use the action.
- Rendering Rule: Custom rule defined by the user. It must be defined in JSON format and is applied only within the detail pages of the resources, directly on those pages.
At the end there are Modify and Delete buttons.