alfresco-ng2-components/docs/core/services/card-view-update.service.md

Title, Added, Status, Last reviewed

Title	Added	Status	Last reviewed
Card View Update service	v2.0.0	Active	2018-11-14

Card View Update service

Reports edits and clicks within fields of a Card View component.

Details

You can use the Card View Update service to respond to edits and clicks within items on a card view. This might involve updating application data to reflect the changes made to the view or could simply be a matter of highlighting a clicked item.

The service is injected into a component using a constructor parameter, which also creates a corresponding property in the object:

properties: any;

constructor(private cardViewUpdateService: CardViewUpdateService) {

    this.properties = [
        new CardViewTextItemModel({
            label: 'Name',
            value: 'Kirk',
            key: 'name',
            default: 'No name entered',
            multiline: false,
            editable: true,
            clickable: true
        }),
        new CardViewTextItemModel({
            label: 'Rank',
            value: 'Captain',
            key: 'rank',
            default: 'No rank entered',
            multiline: false,
            editable: true,
            clickable: true
        }),
        new CardViewTextItemModel({
            label: 'Ship',
            value: 'Enterprise',
            key: 'ship',
            default: 'No ship entered',
            multiline: false,
            editable: true,
            clickable: true
        })
    ];
}

The constructor here also sets the CardViewTextItemModel instances that define the layout of the card view (see the Card View component for further information about this). The model objects and the key property are used to identify which item has been clicked or updated when an event occurs.

You must subscribe to the service to be informed about clicks and updates. You can do this by registering your own functions with the service's itemUpdated$ and itemClicked$ events (place this code in the ngOnInit lifecycle hook rather than the constructor):

ngOnInit() {
    this.cardViewUpdateService.itemUpdated$.subscribe(this.respondToCardUpdate.bind(this));
    this.cardViewUpdateService.itemClicked$.subscribe(this.respondToCardClick.bind(this));
}

With the subscriptions in place, respondToCardUpdate and respondToCardClick will now be called after updates and clicks, respectively.

Responding to updates

The update function is passed a parameter of type UpdateNotification:

export interface UpdateNotification {
    target: any;
    changed: any;
}

Here, target contains the CardViewTextItemModel that was used to initialize the field in question (in practice, this might be a CardViewDateItemModel or CardViewMapItemModel if the card layout includes these objects). The changed property contains an object with a single property:

{ keyValue: 'Value after editing' }

Here, keyValue is actually the value of the key field specified when the item was initialized. So in our example, if the third item was edited from 'Enterprise' to 'Shuttle Craft', the object would be:

{ ship: 'Shuttle Craft' }

The complete code for respondToCardUpdate might look something like the following:

respondToCardUpdate(un: UpdateNotification) {
    this.updateMessage = un.target.label + ' changed to ' + un.changed[un.target.key];
}

Note that the function will only be called if the editable property of the model object is set to true for this item. Also, the editable value of all items will be overridden if editable is set to false on the Card View component itself.

Responding to clicks

The click function is passed a ClickNotification object, which is similar to UpdateNotification described above, but without the changed property. Use the target property to identify the item that was clicked:

respondToCardClick(cn: ClickNotification) {
    this.clickMessage = cn.target.label + ' was just clicked';
}  

Note that this function will only be called if the clickable property of the model object is set to true for this item.

Update cardview update item

updateElement function helps to update the card view item. It takes the CardViewBaseItemModel type object as parameter.

Example

   this.cardViewUpdateService.updateElement(cardViewBaseItemModel)

See also

• Card view component