Popup Widgets

Popup widgets are widgets that aren’t displayed directly in the dashboard, but are displayed as a independent overlay window in response to some event.

A Popup widget can be any standard widget, the only difference is that when selecting the widget you have to check the Popup Widget checkbox.

After configuring the widget you won’t see it displayed in the dashboard, that’s normal, to display it you need to send one of two specific fields.

Displaying one off Popup Widgets

If you need to display information in a widget in response to an event but then you don’t need to update the information or it’s ok to display the next interaction in another Popup Widget then you just have to set the show field to true in the event that is sent to the widget.

Displaying and updating/reusing a Popup Widget

If you need to display information in a widget in response to an event and then you want to update the information of the widget in response to other events, and maybe have more than one popup widget at the same time displayed with a way to differentitate them then instead of setting the show field you set the _instanceId field to any value that will be used to identify the popup widget unambiguous way.

Then, every time you want to update the content of the popup widget you have to send the new information with the same _instanceId field.

If the user closes the popup and you send an event with a previous _instanceId Event Fabric will reopen the popup dialog with the result of processing only the last event, as if the Widget was cleared before receiving the event.