When you work with the Dexterra framework, you don’t really have access to any of the notification engines you normally would have on the front end of an application. This became a major problem for us in a project we were working on.

Our goal was that we had a details screen for data with a button that would take you to a form with a list of selectable items. When an item was selected from the list, we wanted to show the selection in our details screen without having to send the data back into the dexterra business objects from the list screen, and then read the updated data from the database into the detail screen.

We were using Dexterra version 5.6.1 for our development and the solution we found was this.

We have two forms DetailsScreen and ListScreen inheriting from the Dexterra.Framework.Screen class.
Inside the ListScreen we have an public event named ListItemSelectedEvent and on the DetailsScreen we have a button named btnListSelection. Continue Reading