Adding a link to a region

In this recipe, we are going to add an item to the records returned in the Employee Societies page. When a user clicks the button we will capture some key attributes from the row and pass them to the create society page.

To create a link item, we will perform the following actions:

• Creating a link item

• Capturing the create item event

Creating a link item

We are now going to add an item to the row, which will display a create icon on each row of the employee records in the EmpMasterRN region.

How to do it...

To add an item to create a new society record, perform the following.

1. In Applications Navigator, click on the EmpSocietiesPG.xml page.

2. In the Structure tab, right-click the EmpMasterRN and navigate to New | column from the pop-up menu.

   

3. Click the item created and set the ID property of the column to AddSocietyCol.

4. Right-click on the AddSocietyCol column and navigate to New | Item from the pop-up menu. Set the following properties:

   • ID: AddSociety

   • Item Style: link

   • ActionType...