topic Re: App reload widget in App Development

App reload widget

rachel_delany — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 05:48:52 GMT

I'm trying to develop a simple widget for users to be able to reload an app through clicking a button.

The widget is really simple, just using the app.doReload() method.

It works when the app is not published however when the app is published, it appears to work (the data reloads) however once you refresh the page the new data is no longer there.

It appears the app isn't saving after reload, if I add a separate button which invokes the app.doSave() method, it all seems to work. Does anyone know how I can put this all into one button?

Re: App reload widget

avinashjpm — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 21:56:10 GMT

Hi Rachel,

Have you found the solution for this?

We are facing the same problem.

Re: App reload widget

durgesh22 — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 06:13:34 GMT

<lui-button ng-click="app.doReload();app.doSave()">Reload app</lui-button>

Use above it should work.

Re: App reload widget

rachel_delany — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:29:57 GMT

No, I had already tried that but the save does not work on a published app.

Re: App reload widget

rachel_delany — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:31:11 GMT

No, haven't found a solution.

Current thinking is we need to make an extension that will trigger the reload task for the app.

Re: App reload widget

peachman — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 13:26:11 GMT

this wont work because app.doReload() returns a promise, You need to call a .then on it

app.doReload().then(function(){ app.doSave(); });

this will wait for the reload. then do the save once its reloaded.

Re: App reload widget

pwagner — Wed, 19 May 2021 09:39:35 GMT

Hello @peachman

where do I have to put your code into the widget HTML?

At the moment I have two buttons:

Could you give us an example how the HTML code in the widget should look like?

Thank you.
Best regards, Patrick