Custom Config pages

Module Development
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Hi all,

I'm currently working on a driver module, I've finished most parts that I wanted to, but one last thing is remaining:
I would like to extend my Config Page with a Button; "Discover...". If a user clicks on that, he is shown a list of devices found. If he then selects one of the listed devices, the settings page is initialized with the settings found.

I have seen several posts (mostly in this forum) but none of them syntactically still work, so I assume that with Ignition 8.1 the API is quite a bit different.

Can anyone help me? Help greatly appreciated.

Chris

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Perhaps something interesting here

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The general flow is going to look something like:

  1. override BaseExtensionPointType::newRecordConfigPanel. This returns a ConfigPanel, which is basically just a Wicket Panel.
  2. learn whatever old version of Wicket we're using in 8.1 and build yourself a fancy discovery page on this panel.
  3. user did stuff, you have some info, user clicks a button, it's time to move on to a RecordEditForm. You'll end up creating a RecordEditForm and then swapping it in:
var recordEditForm = new RecordEditForm(configPage, parentPanel, model, records);

configPage.setConfigPanel(recordEditForm);

Something along these lines... you are given all the things you need to eventually create the RecordEditForm in newRecordConfigPanel. Don't be afraid to step into the decompiled code, you'll probably never figure this out if you don't.

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