Creating a Button

To create a button:

In the UIX Visual Editor or Design Structure Window of the desired file, locate the component or node in which you wish to insert a button.
In the Component Palette, select Navigation Components from the dropdown list, and then drag and drop the button component from the list to the parent node.
In the Property Inspector, set the following attributes for the new button:
- text - Enter the text for the button.
- destination - Enter the URL that this component references.
- name - Enter a name for the component.
- disabled - Select true to render the component as disabled. Default is false.
- longDesc - Enter the text for a description that is associated with the component.
- primaryClientAction - Enter the clientAction to fire. In the right column, click the icon to enter a ClientAction. See Editing the PrimaryClientAction Attribute for details. Alternatively, use the Advanced tab to enter an EL syntax data binding expression or use the Bind to Data dialog to select a data source for this complex attribute.
- selected - Default is false. Select true to specify that this component is selected.
- targetFrame - Specifies the target frame for the component, if any
- textAndAccessKey - To set both the text and an access key, use the ampersand ('&') notation. For example, setting this attribute to "T&ext" will display the text as"Text" and set the access key to 'e'.

Note: To use data binding, see Data Binding a Component Attribute.

Example (UIX XML)


...
<button text="Client action enabled button">
  <primaryClientAction>
    <!-- client actions here -->
    <firePartialAction event="anyEvent"
                       formSubmitted="true"
                       targets="someTargetId">
      <parameters>
        <parameter key="keyone" value="keyvalue1"/>
        <parameter key="keytwo" value="keyvalue2"/>
      </parameters>
    </firePartialAction>
  </primaryClientAction>
</button>
...